The Alexander Langer Foundation is pleased to announce that nominations are invited for the 2025 Alexander Langer International Award

With this annual award, the Foundation seeks to recognize groups and individuals who contribute to keeping alive the legacy of Alexander Langer, carrying on his civil, cultural and political commitments.

The Foundation looks to award the Alexander Langer International Prize to people and associations deeply rooted in their social contexts who, with courage and independent thinking, shed light on emblematic situations and on innovative ways of dealing with the current crises the world is facing. In particular, the prize aims to honor committed persons and groups who may not necessarily be widely known, who work to promote human rights, peace, democracy and coexistence; who fight against discrimination and ethnic exclusivism; who defend the environment and search ways towards, as Alexander Langer called it, an “ecological conversion”. Alexander Langer devoted his life and work to these issues, underlining the interconnections between them, proposing concrete solutions with particular attention on establishing fruitful relations between people.

The Alexander Langer International Prize over the years

Between 1997 and 2024, the Foundation awarded 23 prizes to candidates in 19 countries on 4 continents: Algeria, Bosnia, China, Ecuador, Greece, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kosovo and Serbia, Palestine and Israel, Poland, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tunisia, Belarus.

The majority of the awardees come from countries experiencing armed conflict, in transition from war to peace or with fragile democracies. For this reason, in many cases, the awardees’ political and social commitments constituted a risk for their personal safety. For example, the representatives of the Ayuub Village in Somalia (Langer Prize 2008) were kidnapped on their way to receive the award; the Iranian lawyer Narges Mohammadi (Langer Prize 2009; 2023 Nobel Peace Prize) was prevented by the Iranian government from reaching Italy.

All the awardees, because of their characteristics, could have been Alexander Langer's travel companions. The Foundation established long-lasting relations with them and, throughout the years, collaborated with them on different occasions. For further information see the following link www.alexanderlanger.org

In 1997, the Foundation established a partnership with the Presidency of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Since then, the Presidency held every year a ceremony to present the Alexander Langer International Prize at the Italian Parliament and has published various books on the award.

How to submit nominations

For the 2025 award, we invite anyone interested to submit nominations referring to a person or an organization that meet the main objectives of the award set out above.

Nominations must be submitted by 15 July 2024 to the following e-mail address: premio@alexanderlanger.net

Please indicate the reasons for your nomination (maximum one page) and send any attachments that would facilitate the Foundation in obtaining further information on the nominee (contacts, website, list of activities).

The recipient of the Award (a person or an organization) will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the Foundation. The committee is made up of independent experts and its decisions are final.

The award will consist of 10,000 euros and the award ceremony will take place during the annual event “Euromediterranea” to be held in Bolzano (Italy) in early 2026.

Best regards

Alexander Langer Foundation Foundation