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Competition 2023

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Humanistic Essay Award
Theme of the 2023 awards: ‘Ideology and cultural history: past, present and future’

CONTEST RULES
Catalunya Literària Fundació Privada, together with Fondazione Etruria and the Fondation Europa
Cultural, periodically offer an award for humanist essays on a subject established prior to each award.
The foundations were created to promote knowledge and disseminate works on different lines of
thought. They are completely independent from religious and political entities.
The theme of the 2023 competition is ‘Ideology and cultural history: past, present and future’
Works submitted should examine the role of ideology in culture, and/or vice versa, to offer a general or
specific historical view of ideas about society and its challenges expressed through discourses on art,
science, morality, philosophy, politics, religion, journalism, and other fields—ideas that represent
worldviews, beliefs and attitudes that have varied throughout history, from antiquity to the current era
of artificial intelligence and its related questions.
The Humanistic Essay Award has an endowment o 200,000 (two hundred thousand) euros.
Pieces submitted may not have been previously published or committed to other parties. They should
be between 45,000 and 90,000 words in length and in PDF format. Originals may be submitted in
Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian or English.
Copyright is reserved exclusively for the winning author or authors, who are free to enter into direct
agreements with publishers without the financial involvement or participation of the three foundations,
although the foundations reserve the right to issue and distribute editions free of charge in any format.
The works should be sent to the email address administracio@clfp.cat prior to 31 October 2023. All
entries will receive an acknowledgement of receipt.
The prize will be awarded by a jury, the composition of which will be released when the decision is
published on 30 November 2023.
If the jury is of the opinion that none of the works submitted meet the basic conditions of the awards or
are of insufficient quality and the prize is declared null and void, the endowment will be allocated to a
new competition to be held the following year.
The prize ceremony may be private or public. In the latter case, the author or a representative of the
prize-winning authors agree to attend the event.
Participation in the competition implies acceptance of the rules.

Competition 2022

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2022 Essay Award Call for Entries
Theme: Facing Death

COMPETITION RULES
The European Cultural Foundation is an independent private institution that promotes cultural
exchange and scholarly works based in Geneva, Switzerland.

The European Cultural Foundation hereby announces a call for entries for the 2022 Essay Award
with the theme ‘facing death’. Living with awareness of one’s own finitude and that of loved ones is
generally a reality that is distanced from our day-to-day lives. The rhythm and values of modern
society lead us to turn our backs on death. Popular culture depicts it as either fanciful or dramatic.
How can we embrace death in order to live life to the fullest? Can we learn from situations in which
life makes us face death? Is facing death also a way of making the most of our fleeting lives?

This year, with the aim of bringing the essay genre to the largest possible audience, we are opening
the call for entries to audio-visual works. As such, works may be submitted in written form only or
accompanied by an audio-visual piece.

Written works must be submitted in digital format and have a length of between 40.000 and 70.000
words, or between 20.000 and 30.000 words if accompanied by an audio-visual. The audio-visual
work should be longer than 45 minutes. Works submitted must be unpublished and written in
English, French, German or Spanish.

The winning work will be chosen by a panel whose members will be announced when the prize is
awarded on 30 November 2022. The endowment for the 2022 award will be 200.000 euros.

Works must be submitted in digital format to info@fondationeuropa.com by 31 October 2022.

Submissions must include the following:

  • A brief description of the work in English of about 300 words
  • Personal details of the author or authors and a brief curriculum vitae including publications
  • Written works should be between 40.000 and 70.000 words, or 20.000 to 30.000 words if
    accompanied by an audio-visual

Receipt of all works submitted will be confirmed.

Copyright: Reserved for the winning author or authors.
Publication: The winning author or authors will retain publication rights, without any involvement
or share in financial matters on the part of European Cultural Foundation. However, the foundation
reserves the right to publish editions for free distribution in any medium for an unlimited period of
time.

Participation in the call for entries implies acceptance of the terms and conditions.

Competition 2020

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2020 Call for Essay Prize
Subject: The crisis of democracy after the Great Recession

COMPETITION RULES

The Fondation Europa Cultural, which has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent private institution dedicated to fostering cultural exchanges, essays.

The Fondation Europa Cultural is convening the 2020 Essay Prize on the subject ‘The crisis of democracy after the Great Recession’. The works submitted must address the relationship between the great economic recession that began in 2008 and the crisis of political parties, governments, elections, the rule of law, political institutions, constitutions, and democratic systems. A comparative approach will be valued more than the analysis of a single case.

The works must be unpublished and must be written in English, French, German, or Spanish. They must be submitted in Word format, with an extension between 40,000 and 70,000 words.

The winning manuscript will be chosen by a jury whose components will be announced when the prize is awarded, on 15 April 2020.

The 2020 Prize is endowed with 200,000 euros.

The works must be submitted electronically to info@fondationeuropa.com before 16 March 2020.

Each submission must include:

  • A brief description of the work in English in about 300 words.
  •  The author or authors’ coordinates and a brief curriculum, including publications.
  •  The manuscript with an extension between 40,000 and 70,000 words.Reception of all submitted works will be acknowledged.Copyright: Reserved for the winning author or authors.
    Publication: The winning author or authors will keep the rights for publication without any intervention or economic participation by Fondation Europa Cultural. However, the Fondation reserves the right to make editions of the works submitted to distribute free of charge by any medium and for an unlimited time.

    Participation in the call implies acceptance of these rules.

Competition 2019

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2019 Call for 2nd Essay Prize

Theme : the media after the 1978 Constitution

CONTEST RULES

Cataluyna Literària Fundació Privada periodically awards, as from 2002, a prize for humanistic essays on a subject previously established for each competition. The winning works in previous editions have dealt with, among other subjects, with, the origin of the Earth, the construction of Europe, the biological bases of politics, the challenges of education, the ethnic variety of societies, the evolution of communication and other aspects of the development of humanity. Catalunya Literària Fundació Privada was created by Antoni Pàmies Anguera with the objective of furthering knowledge and spreading works in the field of thinking. La Foundation is totally independent of any entity with religious or political character.

The theme of the 2019 Humanistic Essay Award is the media after the 1978 Constitution.

Works submitted should examine the evolution of the media in Spain’s democratic period, its current state and prospects for the future, especially in terms of social impact.

The Humanistic Essay Award has an endowment o 200,000 (two hundred thousand) euros.

Pieces submitted may not have been previously published or committed to other parties. They should be between 45,000 and 90,000 words in length and in PDF format. Originals may be submitted in Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian or English.

Copyright is reserved exclusively for the winning author or authors, who are free to enter into direct agreements with publishers without the financial involvement or participation of Catalunya Literària Fundació Privada, although the foundation reserves the right to issue and distribute editions free of charge in any format.

The works should be sent to the email address administracio@clfp.cat prior to 3 February 2020. All entries will receive an acknowledgement of receipt.

The prize will be awarded by a jury, the composition of which will be released when the decision is published on 19 February 2020.

If the jury is of the opinion that none of the works submitted meet the basic conditions of the awards or are of insufficient quality and the prize is declared null and void, the endowment will be allocated to a new competition to be held the following year.

The prize ceremony may be private or public. In the latter case, the author or a representative of the prize-winning authors agree to attend the event.

Participation in the competition implies acceptance of the rules.

Competition 2017

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2017 Essay Competition Award

Subject: Demography, employment and the future of the social safety net model

COMPETITION RULES

The Fondation Europa Cultural, which has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent private institution dedicated to fostering cultural exchange, and essays and works on thought.

The Fondation Europa Cultural is convening the 2017 Essay Prize on the subject of ‘Demography, employment and the future of the social protection model’. Works presented must address the evolution of the population pyramid, new forms of employment and their impact on the future of public service systems (education, healthcare, senior service, etc.), with special focus on the European Union.

The prize will be awarded to an unpublished manuscript of not more than 40,000 words, written in English, French, German or Spanish. The winning manuscript will be chosen by a jury, the members of which will be announced when the prize is awarded on October 31, 2017.

The 2017 award endowment is 200,000 euros.

Works must be submitted in digital format to info@fondationeuropa.com up to September 30, 2017.

Each submittal must include the following:

  • A brief description of the work
  • The author’s personal information and a brief curriculum with publications
  • The manuscript of at least 40,000 words

The reception of all works submitted will be confirmed.

Copyright: Reserved for the winning author(s)

Publication: The winning author(s) are free to contract directly with publishers without any involvement or financial participation on the part of Fondation Europa Cultural in the published works. However, foundation reserves the right to create editions to disseminate free of charge in any media or format and at any time.