Our Awards
Since 2020, the FLAX Foundation issues specially created awards to generate innovative research. The awards are given to talented and engaged scholars on feminist and inequality issues in Europe and are meant to support their research and development.
The FLAX Foundation issues two types of awards: the Emma Goldman Awards and the Emma Goldman Snowball Awards.
Ceremonies
Emma Goldman Awards
The Emma Goldman Awards are awarded yearly to between 5 and 10 selected excellent candidates. The nominees can spend the awards according to their own research plans, provided they fall within the remit of the aims of the Foundation and they are agreed upon by the Board of the Foundation. Candidates receive coaching to ensure that they plan their award’s budgeting carefully, so that the awards are most effective. Each awardee will receive 50.000 Euro to spend within two years and is required to provide a report of their activities at the end of this period.
Snowball Awards
The Emma Goldman Snowball Awards are smaller, 10.000 Euro each, and they are awarded researchers who are nominated by the Emma Goldman awardees. In this way, the FLAX Foundation increases its knowledge in the field and creates opportunities for networking and mentoring among its awardees.
Through this two-step approach, the FLAX Foundation’s network and reach increases with every year’s awards. To ensure high-quality awardees, the selection process of the Emma Goldman Snowball Awards is also subject to coaching and similar rules for research plans and reporting.
For whom?
The awards are to be given to individuals residing in Europe (independent of citizenship or immigration status). Each year, between 5 and 10 individuals are selected based on the following criteria: feminist imagination; track record of collaboration and solidarity; public spirit; originality; extraordinary engagement on feminist and inequality issues; insight into their chosen field; track record of substantial contribution to knowledge on feminist and inequality issues, and/or substantial potential for future contribution to knowledge. Nominees do not need to have an academic affiliation.