In 2024, the Global Citizenship Observatory launched the GLOBALCIT– Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship. The Award aims to encourage and highlight original thinking by early-career scholars on a topic related to present and future challenges for citizenship from a global perspective. The Award is generously sponsored by the funds of the City of Vienna 2023 Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences, which was awarded to Rainer Bauböck for his work on citizenship and democratic theory. In an online meeting the jury discussed extensively each of the shortlisted essays and took a vote from which Bárbara Mota emerged as the winner.

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