Deadline: 20-Mar-2025
The Geopolitics and Global Futures (GCSP) has launched the Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security to reward groundbreaking concepts that offer exceptional promise in addressing peace and security challenges.
Concepts from a wide variety of fields may be eligible for consideration, including, but not restricted to, transformative technologies, pandemics, biothreats, autonomous weapons, climate change, human rights, cybersecurity, education, or disarmament, for example.
The prize is intended to encourage and recognize excellence in contributing to new approaches to enhancing sustainable global peace and security.
The prize is awarded by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), as part of its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme Department and its Creative Spark Incubator, under the Creativity and Innovation Initiative.
Prize Information
- The prize for the application coming in the first position is a fully funded 2-month incubation programme within the GCSP’s Creative Spark in Geneva (worth CHF 15’000) and a certificate of excellence. The two other finalist applications will receive a certificate of recognition.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications may come from any country, but the potential impact of the concepts submitted should extend beyond national borders in their scope or thinking.
- The prize is awarded for groundbreaking concepts by any individual, group of individuals, or organisation (from private or public sectors), that offer exceptional potential in addressing peace and security challenges.
- Employees, staff, current fellows and current participants of the GCSP, as well as their family members, are not eligible participants. For the above categories to be eligible participants, a period of 1 year since the termination of the relationship with the GCSP must be respected.
- Applications must be in English.
Selection Criteria
- The panel of judges will select the winners (first, second and third place), and the selection will be based on the following criteria:
- Dedication to sustainable global peace and security;
- Creativity;
- Originality;
- Transformative potential;
- Sustainability;
- Incubation potential;
- Implementation potential;
- Potential impact on peace and security.
For more information, visit GCSP.