Prizes
The IF Film Competition
To be launched soon! The IF Film Competition will be looking for the best film made about intergenerational equity. Watch this space, or email us if you wish to be kept informed.
Intergenerational Justice Award 2011/2012
IF would like also to draw attention to another major prize offered by the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG): the biennial “Intergenerational Justice Prize”.
Again, a prize of €10,000 is offered, financed by the Apfelbaum Foundation. Through this award, the FRFG hopes to promote public debate about policies which explore generational justice and provide discussion with a scientific basis.
The topic is “The German Debt Brake”.
An effective institutional limit on the level of national debt was for many years a controversial topic in the debate about sustainable financial policy. The financial crisis’s explosive consequences of new indebtedness finally led in Germany to a – for the majority acceptable – “debt brake”: the Bundestag and the Bundesrat decided in spring 2009 on massive changes with regard to what level of state indebtedness was considered acceptable. It was a decision which had the basic principle of a balanced budget as its core aim. Could the German debt brake experience serve as a model for other European countries? Is the German experience of any use to countries such as the UK?
The deadline for submitted papers is 1 June 2012. For more information, see the FRFG website.
Recent competitions and prizes (deadlines expired)
Demography Prize for Young Researchers
IF and Germany’s Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) joined forces in 2011 to launch the Third Demography Prize for Young Researchers (closing date for submissions was 1 October 2011).
Papers of between 20 and 40 pages long were requested on the following topic: “Old majority – Young minority: Where is a power shift between generations already visible and how can you balance it?”
The prize is €10,000, funded by the German Apfelbaum Foundation in order to promote a public and science-based debate about demographic change and its consequences.
