Call for Nominations: 2024 Balzan Prizes
The Balzan Prize’s aim is to foster culture, the sciences and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace, and fraternity among peoples throughout the world.
The Prizes are awarded in the subject areas:
- literature, moral sciences, and the arts;
- physical, mathematical, and natural sciences, and medicine;
- humanities, peace, and fraternity among peoples.
The four subject areas, two in literature, the moral sciences, and the arts, and two in the physical, mathematical, and natural sciences, and medicine, change every year. No more than four prizes may be awarded in any one year.
The four Balzan Prizes, two per category, are awarded to scholars, artists, and scientists who have distinguished themselves in their fields on an international level.
The subject areas in which the awards are granted are rotated, and this special characteristic of the Balzan Prize ensures the promotion and recognition of new or emerging fields of study or research that may have been overlooked by other international awards.
The General Prize Committee announced that the 2024 Balzan Prizes will be awarded in the following fields:
- Restorative Justice
- History of Modern and Contemporary Science
- Biological Mechanisms of Ageing
- Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications
Nominations
The General Prize Committee of the “Prize” Foundation invites the most prestigious international cultural and scientific institutions (universities, research institutes and academies) and figures recognized by the General Prize Committee as highly distinguished in the chosen fields for that year to submit names of candidates for the four annual Balzan Prizes. Nominations must be submitted by 15 March of the relevant year and supported by justification for the candidate’s nomination, including a list of his/her most important publications and a complete biography. Self-nominations are not accepted.
Please find further information on the Website of the International Balzan Prize Foundation .