How to submit a nomination
2027 Alexander Langer International Prize
The Alexander Langer Foundation is pleased to announce that the call for the 2027 Alexander Langer International Prize is open
With this 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 awards 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 honors committed persons and groups who are not 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 2026, the Foundation awarded 24 prizes to candidates in countries on 4 continents: Algeria, Bosnia, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Greece, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kosovo and Serbia, Palestine and Israel, Poland, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tunisia, Belarus, and West Bank and Israel.
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 and has been repeatedly convicted and imprisoned.
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 has regularly held 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 2027 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 04 September 2026 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 Prize (a person or an organization) will be selected by the Scientific and Guarantee Committee of the Foundation. The committee is made up of independent experts and its decisions are final.
The prize will consist of 10,000 euros and the award ceremony will take place during the annual event “Euromediterranea” to be held in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy) in the second half of 2027.
Kind regards,
Alexander Langer Foundation
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