Deadline: 31-Jan-25

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Humanity recognizes outstanding contributions to climate action and climate solutions that inspire hope.

The Prize for Humanity enables people to make huge advances in tackling climate change. The Prize aims to strengthen communities facing the effects of climate change, helping them to adapt and build resilience at a local level. It supports scalable solutions that will have real impact nationally and globally.

Focus Areas

• The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity jury and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation seek nominations that demonstrate:
  • Evidence of transformative solutions and the potential for long-term change.
  • Clear, scalable solutions with real impact and proven environmental and social benefits.
  • Work that inspires and demonstrates active leadership.
  • Ideas that meet today’s needs and anticipate tomorrow’s challenges.

Funding Information

• The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, granted yearly, is worth 1 million euros.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity is open to nominations of any individuals, organisations, or groups of people and organisations from around the world. They must be making a significant contribution to the development of solutions to tackle climate change.
• Nominations must demonstrate the reach or potential reach of outstanding results and provide highly relevant evidence of future impact.
• Nominations must come from a third party.
  • The prize cannot be granted posthumously or to an organisation after ceasing its activity, nor to former members of the Jury of the Prize.

Selection Criteria

• The Jury is responsible for selecting the nominations according to the following criteria:
  • Innovation: demonstrate innovative solutions and/or potential for long term transformational change.
  • Impact: demonstrate widespread benefits for global environment and society and/or be scalable with potential for long-term impact.
  • Inspiration: ability to serve as a model, show active leadership, or inspire others.
  • Relevance of the nomination: timely, that is, taking into consideration the contribution it will make to address critical issues and challenges ahead.

For more information, visit Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.