Schwarzkopf Europe Award

2020 - Deeyah Khan shows the origins of fundamentalist violence in our societies with brutally honesty. Djihadists, perpetrators of violence, right-wing extremists - they all get confronted by the Norwegian filmmaker who partly shatters their fundamentalist beliefs. With her feminist magazine "sister-hood" she offers young Muslim women a supporting platform and creates a network of unheard voices.

2019 – This year, the Schwarzkopf Foundation honours the civil rights initiative New Europeans, which is campaigning for an #EUGreenCard to ring fence the rights and status of EU citizens currently resident in the UK and Britons currently resident in Europe.

2018 - Margrethe Vestager has been European Commissioner for Competition since 2014. The jury honored her inspiring interpretation of her role as commissioner and the courage she has shown in the past years fighting for fair competition. As a Commissioner, she pushed for compliance with EU laws, but also worked tirelessly to bring EU institutions closer to their constituents.

2017 - Emily O’Reilly is the EU Ombudsman who supports the integrity of the different institutions of the European Union and upholds the European idea in her work. She has become a role model for the European youth through her tiredless work against the erosion of the European Union.

2016 – IHA Germany e.V. , Flüchtlinge Willkommen, and SOS Méditerranée for thei work with central challenges to the refugee crisis. Inter European Human Aid Association in Germany focuses on the protection and assistance on the EU borders. The initiative Flüchtlinge Wilkommen brings flat shares and refugees together. SOS Méditerranée Germany not only supports shipwrecked refugees in the Mediterranean sea but protects and guides refugees and migrants with the help of medical and psychological care.

2015 – Neil MacGregor is a historian and one of the founding directors of the Humboldt Forum who has outstandingly dedicated himself to the European self-conception. He manages to unite cultural visions of the past, present and future in an extraordinary way.

2014 – The human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina works in an mpressive way for human rights in her native Russia. She fights especially for refugees and displaced persons in Russia and Europe and founded in 1990 the first human rights organisation in Russia.

2013 – sociologist Ulrich Beck is committed to the European common good instead of narrow-minded national policies in times of crises. He opens his scientific insights to the open debate and contributes to the creation of a European public.

2012 – German politician Martin Schulz was the President of the European Parliament. With the award, he was honoured for his tiredless advocacy for a solidary and united Europe.

2011 – Connie Hedegaard, former European Commissioner for Climate Action, received the Schwarzkopf Europe Award 2011 for her dedicated and tireless commitment in the fight against climate change.

2010 – Jean-Claude Juncker, the current President of the European Commission, was honoured for his communication of the historical importance of European integration and cooperation, and his exemplary management of the financial crisis. Additionally, he was honoured for his commitment to counteract casual emergences of nationalism in European politics.