Award Ceremony Holberg International Memorial Prize 2012 and Nils Klim Prize 2012
Holberg Prize laureate 2012 Manuel Castells. Photo: Maggie Smith.
Nils Klim Prize laureate 2012 Sara Hobolt. Photo: privat.Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 14:00
Location: Håkonshallen, Bergenhus festning, Bergen
Holberg International Memorial Prize 2012 is awarded to Manuel Castells.
From the citation of the Holberg Prize Academic Committee:
"Manuel Castells is the leading sociologist of the city and new information and media technologies. His ideas and writings have shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society." Read more.
The Holberg International Memorial Prize is presented by HRH The Crown Princess Mette-Marit
Nils Klim Prize 2012 is awarded to Sara Hobolt.
From the citation from the Nils Klim Prize Academic Committee:
"Sara Hobolt’s research covers a wide range of key issues in studies of comparative politics: European integration, elections and referendums, but also the interaction between media, processes of opinion formation and responsiveness and responsibility of political elites and party systems. She combines the use of methods at the cutting edge of quantitative empirical methodology with an interest in such crucial questions as the nature and direction of development of national political systems as well as of the entire process of European integration." Read more.
The Nils Klim Prize is presented by Minister of Education and Research Kristin Halvorsen.
Holberg International Memorial Prize 2004 - 2012
Manuel Castells2011:
Jürgen Kocka 2010:
Natalie Z. Davis 2009: 
Ian Hacking 2008:
Fredric Jameson
2007:
Ronald Dworkin 2006:
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt 2005:
Jürgen Habermas 2004:
Julia Kristeva
Holberg International Memorial Prize is awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The prize amount is NOK 4.5 million (appr. EUR 610,000/ USD 790,000)
Nominate candidate to the Nils Klim Prize
Candidates must be under the age of 35 on 15 June 2013, the closing date for nominations. Read more.
Nils Klim Prize 2004-2012
Sara Hobolt2011: 
Jørn Jacobsen 2010: 
Johan Östling 2009: 
David Bloch 2008: 
Anne Birgitta Pessi
2007: 
Carina Keskitalo 2006: 
Linda Wedlin 2005: 
Dag Trygve Truslew Haug 2004: 
Claes de Vreese
The Nils Klim Prize is awarded to young Nordic researchers under 35 years within the academic fields of the Holberg Prize. The prize for 2014 is NOK 250,000 (approx. 34,000 EUR /43,000 USD).