Berggruen Prize Essay Competition
Opportunity type
Contest
Cause areas
Global Priorities Research
Routes to impact
📈 Skill-Building & Building Career Capital
🧪 Testing Your Fit for a Certain Career Path
Relevant aptitudes
Communicator
Conceptual & Empirical Research
Deadline
2025-07-31
Location
Remote
Description
Berggruen Prize Essay Competition 2025 — $50K for Big Ideas
The Berggruen Institute invites submissions exploring the theme of consciousness—its nature, origins, evolution, and expressions across humans, animals, and machines. Essays should be original, rigorously argued, and under 10,000 words (English) or 15,000 characters (Chinese). Each language category awards $50,000. No AI-written content; submissions must be fully original.
📅 Deadline: July 31, 2025 | 🖇 Submit as PDF only
More details + submission form here: berggruen.org/essay-competition-open
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