“Prize for Federalism” 2021: finalists selected

The fifty or so very different applications from various horizons of Switzerland in the running for the CHF 10,000 from the ch Foundation have been short-listed

The jury of the “Federalism Award” has selected the finalists from among fifty or so nominations, which come from very different horizons and reflect the diversity that distinguishes Switzerland.
The name of the winner will be announced at the National Conference on Federalism, scheduled for May 28 in Basel.
The 2021 edition of the award was a great success.
As of this year, the prize is awarded by an interdisciplinary jury on the basis of a call for nominations.
On Thursday, April 22, the jury met to select the finalists from the fifty or so nominations received.

Föderalismuspreis 2021 (Reglement der ch Stiftung für eidgenössische Zusammenarbeit)
Prix du fédéralisme 2021 (Règlement de la Fondation ch pour la collaboration confédérale )
Premio per il federalismo 201 (Regolamento della Fondazione ch per la collaborazione confederale )

All finalists for the 2021 “Federalism Award”

Here is the list of final nominees for this year’s award:

– Carlos Henriquez, humorist
– easyvote, a project of the Swiss Federation of Youth Parliaments (FSPG)
– Institute for Research on the Public Sphere and Society (fög) at the University of Zurich
– Forum for Italian in Switzerland
– Pr. Dr. Adrian Vatter, Director of the Institute for Political Science, University of Bern
– Swiss Youth Editions (ESG)
– Ursi Anna Aeschbacher, founder of the “die brotsuppe” publishing house
– Association of Cantonal Doctors of Switzerland (AMCS)

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Ten thousand francs endowment and an AOC jury

The prize, which as of this year has an endowment of 10,000 francs, rewards persons or organizations that promote federalism and national cohesion through their political, civil, scientific or cultural commitment.
Previous recipients of the award include Circus Knie, the Inter-Jurassic Assembly and cabaret artist Emil Steinberger.
The jury is composed of journalist Gülsha Adilji, Fribourg State Chancellor Danielle Gagnaux-Morel, Professor Tania Ogay of the Faculty of Education at the University of Fribourg, State Councillor and President of the ch Foundation Pascal Brouilis (Vaud), State Councillor and President of the Conference of Cantonal Governments Christian Rathgeb (GR) and Marco Solari, President of the Locarno Film Festival.
The jury evaluated the candidates’ efforts in terms of communication, innovation, participation, tradition and cohesion. The selection of the finalists reflects the great diversity of profiles and criteria.

In Basel on 27-28 May the “Conference on Federalism”.

German-speaking Switzerland, organizations and culture

Most of the applications come from organizations (37), although there are also applications from individuals (11).
The applications reflect the distribution of the national languages: 15 come from German-speaking Switzerland, 10 from French-speaking Switzerland and 3 from Italian-speaking Switzerland.
In addition, there are applications from national organizations (12) or initiatives with a bilingual, trilingual or quadrilingual orientation.
The distribution of areas is also very balanced: most of the nominations come from the field of culture (24), 9 from politics, 8 from civil society and 7 from science.
The “Prize for Federalism” is an initiative of the ch Foundation in favour of national cohesion and the development of federalism.

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