8 March Award
The 39th edition of the 8 March Award - Maria Aurèlia Capmany, with the slogan ‘Let's break the precariousness’, this year aims to support projects that fight against the precariousness of women in the city of Barcelona, promoting gender equality and improving their living conditions.
Every year since 1987, Barcelona City Council has called for nominations for the 8 March Award, which is named after Maria Aurèlia Capmany as a tribute to the great Catalan writer, to commemorate International Women's Day.
Goals
The goals of the award are to recognise initiatives and projects geared towards defending and promoting women’s rights, with a different theme every year, and also to offer financial and institutional support to help the winning projects to be carried out.
Projects may be submitted that are aimed at driving positive action and progress in eradicating the factors that perpetuate vertical segregation, fostering leadership and the empowerment of women in the different sectors of economic and social activities, promoting actions to mitigate the wage and pension gap, the feminisation of poverty or loss of opportunities for female talent, or training, guidance and self-organisation of women, facilitating opportunities to access decision-making jobs, etc.
Call for entries and guidelines
Projects must be new or start to be implemented no later than 1 January 2025. They must be developed with a gender and social justice perspective and centre their economy around an intersectional approach.
All the projects must be developed through specific actions, practically applicable, in Barcelona city, and they must be drafted in inclusive and non-sexist language.
The 8 March Award has a single project category for an award worth 15,000 euros that will be granted by a panel of experts. The decision will be announced at an event to be held on a date close to 8 March.
The terms and conditions for this year’s call are published in the BOPB (Barcelona Province Official Gazette). The submission period ends on 3 February 2025 and applications must be made online.
Historical Awards 8M
Learn about the history of winners of the March 8 Awards.
