Nominations are now open for the 2025 Peace, nuclear Abolition and Climate Engaged Youth (PACEY) Award.
Do you know of a youth project that addresses peace, nuclear disarmament and/or climate issues and that could be boosted by a prestigious award with €5000 in prize money to help it succeed? If so, we encourage you to nominate it for the 2025 PACEY Award.
Nominations are easy. And if you are young and involved in such a project, you can nominate it yourself. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2024.
About the PACEY Award
The PACEY Award supports youth projects which advance effective policy action to cut carbon emissions, enhance the transition to renewable energies, address and resolve international conflicts, abolish nuclear weapons, reduce weapons budgets and investments, and/or support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Priority is given to projects making the connections between peace, climate and nuclear disarmament issues, and their increasing relevance in current times.
The award provides three (3) prizes of €5000 each: one prize in the category of European Youth Project and two prizes in the category of Beyond Europe Youth Project.
The prizes are made available through the kind support of Prof Dr Andreas Nidecker MD (President of the Basel Peace Office), the Presidential Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and the Reformed Evangelical Church of Basel-Stadt.
In previous years the award has been organized by the Basel Peace Office with cooperation of Youth Fusion. The 2025 Award is being organized by Basel Peace Office with cooperation of Youth Present.
The PACEY Award Ceremony
Nine finalists (three for each category) will be selected by the jury from the nominated projects. The finalists will present their projects/proposals at the PACEY Awards Ceremony which takes place online on Wednesday January 22. Participants at the PACEY Awards event will then vote to determine the three winners. The award event will also include short reports of the exciting projects of some of the previous PACEY Award winners.
The PACEY Awards are conferred annually in conjunction with the Basel Peace Forum and the annual Basel Inter-generational Forum on Peace, Disarmament and Climate Action.