Who deserves to be Sophie Prize winner 2012?
The Sophie Prize is an international award (US $ 100,000), for environment and sustainable development. The Sophie Prize is awarded to one or several persons, or an organization, which has created awareness of alternatives to modern-day development and/or initiated such alternatives in a pioneering or particularly inventive manner.
Voluntary organizations, independent research institutions and individual’s worldwide, with knowledge or interest in environment and/or sustainable development can nominate candidates for the Sophie Prize. The Board acts as jury for the Sophie Prize. The Board members are professionals that represent relevant experience within the field of environment and sustainable development.
We kindly ask all nominators to use the Sophie Prize nomination forms. These can be found here.
Nominations for 2012
Nomination deadline for the Sophie Prize 2012 is December 15th 2011. The Sophie Prize Ceremony will take place in June 2012 in Oslo.
Everybody can nominate - but candidates nominated by themselves or their own organisation will not be considered for the award.
In order to facilitate the nomination procedure, please fill out the nomination form.