The GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security
The Prize honours innovative approaches to international security challenges.
In 2015, under the umbrella of its Creativity and Innovation Initiative, the GCSP and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Department established a prize to recognise deserving individuals or organisations with that have developed an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges.
The prize is designed to reach across all relevant disciplines and fields. It seeks to reward the most inspiring, innovative, and ground-breaking contribution of the year, whether in the form of an initiative, invention, research publication, or organisation. The prize consists of a cash award of CHF 10,000.
Information about previous winners can be found here:
- 2024 winners: HeroBee
- 2023 winners: Measuring Norms in Outer Space: ITU Compliance Assessment Monitor (ITU-CAM)
- 2022 winners: Off-Ramps: Averting Nuclear Use in Crisis and War
- 2021 winners: CyberPeace Builders
- 2020 winners: Koe Koe Tech
- 2019 winners: Minefields.info
- 2018 winners: BMJ
- 2017 winners: Ecopeace Middle East
- 2016 winners: eyeWitness to Atrocities
- 2015 winners: Improve the Protection of Children in Conflict