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Intergenerational Justice Prize 2025/26
The Intergenerational Foundation is delighted to support the Intergenerational Justice Prize in partnership with Germany’s Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations.
There are two essay competitions:
1. The Personal Carbon footprint
In 2024, global temperatures were 1.55 degrees warmer than the average temperature between 1850-1900, representing a crucial tipping point in human climate history. In response to this failure to protect the climate, this Call for Papers interrogates an often-neglected aspect: the individual duty to protect the environment. Individual and collective responsibilities are not mutually exclusive; but the current paradigm of emissions reduction by states must be supplemented with an individual dimension. The prize calls for scientific approaches to the ethical, conceptual and practical aspects of the concept of the personal carbon footprint.
To request the complete Call for Papers, and a prize participation form, please email: [email protected]
The prize calls for 5,000 to 8,000 words in English or German which address the subject in innovative ways, and which put forward concrete proposals for reform. Prize money totalling 5,000€ will be shared among the winning entries.
Closing Date: 31 December 2025, 23:59 (GMT+1)
2. Gerontocracy and Presentism
Working towards ‘intergenerational justice’ requires a solid understanding of the term ‘generation’ and the kinds of generational comparisons one can meaningfully make. In the literature, two kinds of intergenerational comparison are often identified: between young and old generations today, and between those alive today and those alive tomorrow, ideally taking into account their whole life courses. These comparisons correspond to two potential intergenerational injustices, namely gerontocracy and presentism. Certain policy areas lend themselves better to one or the other of the two approaches. Climate change, for example, is better looked at across an entire lifetime of a representative of a specific birth cohort, whereas compulsory service years are an issue for a snapshot comparison. In this CfP , FRFG and IF call upon students, researchers and policy makers to submit articles which connect specific policy areas neatly to either gerontocracy or presentism, or to consider examples which relate to both issues.
To request the complete Call for Papers, and a prize participation form, please email: [email protected]
The prize calls for 5,000 to 8,000 words in English or German which address the subject in innovative ways and in simple language. Prize money totalling 5,000€ will be shared among the winner entries.
Closing Date: 31 December 2025, 23:59 (GMT+1)