Silver Rose Awards
Current affairs
The Progressive Civil Society Award
What are the Silver Rose Awards?
Since the year 2000, SOLIDAR organises annually its Silver Rose Awards in the European Parliament in cooperation with the S&D Group, an occasion to celebrate Civil Society Organisations and individuals whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world.
The 2023 Silver Rose Awards call for nominations will celebrate those who work actively towards a just transition towards carbon-neutrality. We seek nominations of individuals or organisations that remind us that with collective action, courage, perseverance, and commitment – we can do not what is politically reasonable but what is necessary to put people and the planet first.
Who nominates? Who decides?
Nominations are made by Civil Society Organisations and selected by a jury composed of its representatives, trade unionists and policy makers. The winners are chosen based on their significant involvement in Civil Society activities and their contribution to social justice and solidarity worldwide.
The ceremony brings together a wide audience of like-minded individuals with backgrounds in civil society, trade union and politics, to strengthen once again our alliance and inspire us all to make our efforts and activities matter to achieve a world with social justice and solidarity.
The 2023 Silver Rose Jury is composed of:
Member of the European Parliament Javi Lopez
Member of the European Parliament Margarida Marques
FEPS Secretary General László Andor
ETUC Deputy General Secretary Isabelle Schömann
PES Executive Secretary General Giacomo Filibeck
SOLIDAR President Anne van Lancker
Who are previous winners?
The people and organisations who have had the honour to come up on the Silver Rose stage to receive their award vary from grass roots human rights activists, to academics who have done research on the societal consequences of inequality, to undercover journalists who have shun light on lower class working conditions.
Former winners of the SOLIDAR Silver Rose Awards include; Juan Somavia (2005), the former General Director of the International Labor Organization, the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (2006), Aminatou Haidar (2007), Western Sahara human rights defender, Plataforma de Mujeres Aristas contra la Violencia de Genero (2007), Spanish group of musicians, the Columbian Trade Union Federations (2010), Gunter Wallraff (2015), German author and undercover journalist, and many more.
You can find all the names of previous winners, sorted by year here.
Where can I register to attend the event?
SOLIDAR will open a dedicated page to register when the time is set.
Who are the latest edition's awardees?
You can read the story of 2023 winners Justiça Ambiental JA! and Margot Wallström.
More questions?
Email us at communications@solidar.org
