Blue Europe, a Franco-Luxembourgian-Polish think tank focused on fostering connections between Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 “Denis de Rougemont” contest. The contest encourages scholarly exchanges and deepens understanding between Western and Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). It is open to all EU/EEA Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral students and recent graduates who obtained their degree in 2024.
This year’s competition honours Denis de Rougemont (1906-1985), a Swiss writer, cultural theorist, and thinker who was a pivotal advocate for European unity and integration, promoting a vision of Europe grounded in cultural diversity, shared values, and federal cooperation. His work Le Paysan du Danube, through the fictional journey of a peasant from the Danube region who travels across Europe, explores the continent’s rich diversity of languages, traditions, and identities while highlighting the common values that bind Europeans together. Le Paysan du Danube serves as an important reminder that true European unity can only be achieved by valuing both shared heritage and cultural diversity, promoting dialogue and cooperation between the West and East.
Authors of papers that are successfully accepted into the competition will receive a certificate of participation, which will include the evaluation of their work. Selected papers will also be published on the Blue Europe website and will be eligible for a cash prize. This year, there are two cash prizes to the authors of the two best articles that receive the highest marks from the jury, namely:
- A prize of 1000€ for the article with the highest score from the jury;
- A prize of 500€ for the article with the second highest score from the judges.
More information about the contest and its rules is available at the following link.
The deadline for registration and submission of abstracts has been extended to 31 March 2025.