Demography Prize For Young Researchers

Deadline: 1 October 2011
Open to: young researchers (students, PhD students and postgraduates up to 35 years)
Prize: €10,000

For the first time, the UK’s newly established Intergenerational Foundation (IF) and Germany’s Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) have joined forces to award a demography prize of €10,000. The prize has been initiated and funded by the German Apfelbaum Foundation in order to promote a public and science-based debate about demographic change and its consequences. Moreover, it wants to open up new horizons for decision-makers.
The FRFG and IF call for papers on the following topic:
“Old majority – Young minority: Where is a power shift between generations already visible and how can you balance it?”

 

Eligibility

The IF/FRFG 2010/11 Demography Prize primarily addresses young researchers (students, PhD students and postgraduates up to 35 years). You are always welcome to work in a team.

 

Application

• Submitted papers shall contain between 20 and 40 pages. Please enclose a one-page abstract and a CV. Use 12 pt. font for the text and 10 pt. font for the footnotes. A margin of at least 4.5 inches should be left on the right. Set all other margins at 2.5 and the line spacing to 1.5. IF/ FRFG will accept papers in German and English.
• IF/FRFG particularly appreciate participants trying to explain complex ideas in as simple terms as possible.
• IF/FRFG may publish submitted papers under the author’s names (e.g in a book or online). By submitting a paper, each author irrevocably declares his general consent.
• As it is common practice in renowned scientific magazines, the jury evaluates all papers “blindly”. In other words, the jury members will not know about the papers’ authors. Titles will have no influence on the evaluation. For this purpose, every participant shall submit two versions, both online and as hard copy: the first including the author’s name and address on the front page, the second without any personal information. IF/FRFG will copy the anonymous versions for the jury. The paper’s online version shall be submitted as a .doc file. Same format applies to the abstract and CV.
• IF/FRFG also welcome empirical studies such as field studies.
• Please enclose a personally signed declaration reading as follows:“I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. I did not use any outside support except for the quoted literature and other sources mentioned at the end of this paper.”

UK submissions should be sent by post to:

IF/FRFG Democracy 2010/11 Prize
The Intergenerational Foundation
19 Half Moon Lane
London SE24 9JU

and be emailed to:
info@intergenerational.org.uk

 

European Submissions should to send to:

IF/FRFG Democracy 2010/11 Prize
Julius-Hölder-Str. 48
D-70597 Stuttgart
Germany

and be emailed to:
KONTAKT@SRZG.DE

More information: http://www.if.org.uk/third-demography-prize