Call for Applications: Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach 2019

The Altiero Spinelli prize rewards outstanding works that enhance citizens’ understanding of the EU, help broaden the ownership of the European project and develop a sense of European identity.  It was awarded for the first time in 2017.

The Commission will consider projects across communication, campaigns, direct actions and more – these may include:

• educational programs or campaigns about the EU;
• information and communication campaigns about the EU;
• activities that enhance young people’s motivation to participate in the democratic processes that shape the future of the EU;
• activities that enhance young people’s attachment to the core values of the EU;
• action-based activities that enable young people to witness the benefits of the EU.

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Altiero Spinelli (1907–1986) was an Italian politician and political theorist. He is considered as one of the founding fathers of the European Union due to his coauthorship of the Ventotene Manifesto, his founding role in the European federalist movement, his strong influence on the first few decades of post-World War II Euro-pean integration and, later, his role in relaunching the integration process in the 1980s. In 2016, on the 30th anniversary of the death of Altiero Spinelli and on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Parliament established the Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach in order to encourage, reward and provide European level recognition and visibility to high-quality contributions.

This edition of the Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach focuses on activities and works that help young Europeans engage in democratic life and understand the values on which the EU is based. It will reward and provide EU-wide visibility to outstanding works/activities/products contributing to young people’s:

1.  Motivation to participate in the democratic processes that shape the future of the EU.
2. Engagement in supporting the EU core values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.
3. Critical awareness of what the EU stands for (its history; its founding values; its actions and policies; its impact, including its accomplishments and added-value) and of the cost of non-Europe;
4. Critical thinking and resilience against misinformation and anti-democratic populist discourses in and about the EU.