The call for proposals “Our Freedom Prize 2020” closed on January 17, 2020. 238 proposals from around the world were received compared to 113 for the first edition. The international panel of judges will meet on February 14 and 15, 2020 in Normandy to decide on the proposals and designate the 3 finalists for the Freedom Prize 2020.
Essential step of the Freedom Prize, the call for proposals "Our Freedom Prize 2020" consisted for young people from 15 to 25 years old to meet in groups of minimum two people in order to propose, in the form of an argued dossier, a candidate for the Freedom Prize 2020. Open since June 6, 2019, no less than 238 proposals were sent by 1,107 young people.
The majority of the proposals come from France, but among those received from abroad, young people have mobilized in Colombia, Burkina Faso, Spain, Canada, the United States and even Madagascar.
Finally, among these 238 proposals, 138 result from the educational support work offered by the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace which intervened in November 2019 in 24 classes in Normandy to educate 687 students about the Freedom Prize.
In the end, after studying the files and merging the duplicates, 167 people or organizations will be submitted to the deliberations of the international panel of judges. There will only be 3 finalists left who will be decided by an online vote open to all 15-25 year olds around the world.
Next step: the deliberations of the international panel of judges
Composed of 24 young people from 15 to 25 years old coming from all over the world, an international panel of judges will meet on February 14 and 15, 2020 in Normandy to study the people or organizations submitted via the call for proposals “Our Freedom Prize 2020”, to deliberate and select the three finalists for the 2020 Freedom Prize.
An online vote organized from March 9 to June 6 will help decide between them and designate the winner of the second edition of the Freedom Prize.
For two days, the deliberations will be framed and animated by the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace, through participatory activities based on respect for the opinion of the other and mobilizing skills such as ability to work in a team and argumentation.
The Freedom Prize invites young people aged 15 to 25 from Normandy, from other regions of France and abroad, to nominate each year a person or an organization engaged in a recent and exemplary fight in favor of freedom.
