Deadline: 18-Apr-22
The European Citizen’s Prize recognises initiatives that contribute to European cooperation and the promotion of common values. Do you know a project that deserves to win the award? Nominate it now!
Awarded every year by the European Parliament, the prize goes to projects organised by people or organisations that encourage:
- Mutual understanding and closer integration between people in the EU
- Cross-border cooperation that builds a stronger European spirit
- EU values and fundamental rights
Benefits
The prize has a symbolic value; the winners receive a medal and a diploma and may not claim any financial compensation / reward.
Areas
- activities promoting better mutual understanding and closer integration between citizens of the Member States or facilitating cross-border or transnational cooperation within the European Union;
- activities involving long-term, cross-border or transnational cultural cooperation contributing to the strengthening of a European spirit;
- projects linked to the current European Year;
- activities giving concrete expression to the values enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
- a specific theme that might have been added by the Chancellor of the Prize.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only projects carried out exclusively within EU Member States or partially within EU Member States (where the part of the project carried out within EU Member States represents more than 50% of the project’s overall budget) shall be considered.
- Eligible for the award are citizens who are either nationals of an EU Member State or third-country nationals who reside legally on the territory of the Union at the date of the submission of their nomination or application.
- Groups, associations and organisations with legal personality are eligible for the award if they are registered in an EU Member State at the date of the submission of their nomination or application. Groups, associations and organisations without legal personality are eligible for the award if the project leader and the person representing the group / association / organisation are either nationals of an EU Member State or third-country nationals residing legally in an EU Member State on the date of the submission of the nomination or application of the group / association / organisation. For the purpose of the eligibility of groups, associations and organisations without legal personality, the project leader and the person representing the group / association / organisation may be the same person.
- People, groups, associations or organisations can apply with a project for the European Citizen’s Prize or can nominate a project. MEPs can also submit a nomination.
Exclusion Criteria
Citizens, groups, associations or organisations who are involved in the following projects shall not be eligible for a prize:
- projects which receive more than 50% funding from the EU budget;
- projects that have already received a prize awarded by a European institution, body, office or agency;
- activities which have been carried out in the exercise of a political function or elected mandate;
- activities which do not comply with the values enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
- activities that have a profit-making objective;
- activities by public and governmental organisations.
- Citizens, groups, associations or organisations shall not be eligible for the Prize in case they had been found guilty of a criminal offence by a final judgement.
- Groups, associations or organisations without legal personality are not eligible for the Prize if the project leader or the person representing them had been found guilty of a criminal offence by a final judgement.
Selection Criteria
The selection takes place in two stages:
- National juries consisting of at least three Members of the European Parliament, a representative of a national civil society organisation and a representative of a national youth organisation, shall propose a maximum of five potential winners (not in priority order) from their Member States to the Chancellery of the European Citizen’s Prize.
- The Chancellery selects the winning projects out of the shortlisted ones that were provided by the national juries. The Chancellery consists of the Chancellor, four Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, two former Presidents of the European Parliament, two eminent personalities, one representative of a pan-European civil society organisation and one representative of a panEuropean youth organisation.
For more information, visit https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/be-heard/prizes