The Award

The Foundation highlights and honours exceptionally successful work for solidarity within or between communities by assigning once a year the “Paul K. Feyerabend Award – A World of Solidarity is Possible”. The award acknowledges and encourages remarkable accomplishments that represent a true source of inspiration.

The award is offered to exemplary individuals, communities or organisations that brought about crucial and lasting change for community solidarity under difficult circumstances. Each award comprises a plaque/ certificate and a small financial envelope.

Beyond the concrete recognition of accomplishments, the goal of the Paul K. Feyerabend Award is to diffuse information about the feasibility and positive results of solidarity-centred work. This is why the award is usually delivered by the relevant Nominator(s) during a public ceremony.

Sculpture de E. Krahenbul

Sculpture de Etienne Krähenbühl

Design and realization of the Paul K. Feyerabend Award : Etienne Krähenbühl, Switzerland.

2024 Paul K. Feyerabend Award to Solidarity in Gaza - Five examples of human solidarity in Gaza that should inspire the whole world

2024 Paul K. Feyerabend Award to Solidarity in Gaza – Five examples of human solidarity in Gaza that should inspire the whole world

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The Ya-Misak University in Guambía (Colombia) - weaving cosmovision and economy, autonomy and spirituality, local knowledge and organisational strengthening

The Ya-Misak University in Guambía (Colombia) – weaving cosmovision and economy, autonomy and spirituality, local knowledge and organisational strengthening

The Ya-Misak University is an educational process born in 2010 by the initiative of the ancestral authorities of the Misak people, under the conviction that the survival of the Misak people requires not only the recovery of land (a struggle … Read more

Md. Khaybar Sardar - plying a generous, catalytic role in community innovation and solidarity in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh

Md. Khaybar Sardar – plying a generous, catalytic role in community innovation and solidarity in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh

Mr. Md. Khaybar Sardar is honoured by the 2024 Paul K. Feyerabend Award for his innovative, generous and lasting contributions to generating and sustaining community solidarity, ingenuity and collective environmental care in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh.  An elder of … Read more

Dang Dinh Bach : a splendid example of community solidarity and a sad tale of injustice waiting to be redressed in Vietnam

Dang Dinh Bach : a splendid example of community solidarity and a sad tale of injustice waiting to be redressed in Vietnam

Dang Dinh Bach is the former director of the Law and Policy of Sustainable Development Research Center (LPSD), an institute he cofounded in 2007 to actively contribute to sustainable development in Vietnam. Based in Hanoi, LPSD worked closely with the … Read more

The Cherán K'eri Indigenous Community : a charismatic symbol of local autonomy

The Cherán K’eri Indigenous Community : a charismatic symbol of local autonomy

The Indigenous Community of Cherán K’eri has succeeded in reclaiming control of its territory and embarked on a long journey to recover its cultural heritage, traditions, and language. In the process it expelled the national political parties to establish a … Read more

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