The 2020 Machiavelli Prize goes to Marion Koopmans and Diederik Gommers. The prize is awarded annually to a person or organization that has made a remarkable achievement in the field of public communications. In 2019, Bellingcat won an award. The Machiavelli Prize has been awarded every year since 1989. Koopmans and Gommers used the year 2020, in which the world was faced with the corona virus, to provide information about corona, its contagiousness and what we can do to combat the pandemic.
Award for Outstanding Public Communication
- Annual award ceremony
- Machiavelli lecture
- Machiavelli Foundation
- Lunch meetings
- Machiavelli
- Machiavelli Prize Winners
- Machiavelli Prize 2012
- Machiavelli Prize 2013
- Machiavelli Prize 2014
- Machiavelli Prize 2015
- Machiavelli Prize 2016
- Machiavelli Prize 2017
- Machiavelli Prize 2018
- Machiavelli Prize 2019
- Machiavelli Prize 2020
- Machiavelli Prize 2021
Annual award ceremony
Every year someone who has made a remarkable achievement in the field of public communication receives the Machiavelli Prize. The prize will be awarded for the 28th time in 2017.
Machiavelli lecture
In accordance with good tradition, there will be a lecture prior to the ceremony. In 2013, for example, it will be about: De Nederlandsche Bank: change and the role of communication. Communication in response to a changing social perception of the central bank. Prof. Dr Klaas Knot, president of the Dutch Bank, speaks to him.
Prof. Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences gave the lecture in 2012, prior to the presentation of the prize to Princess Maxima. She received the 2011 Machiavelli Prize for her excellence in public communication . Dijkgraaf spoke about: Science, public, politics about facts and opinions.
Machiavelli Foundation
The Machiavelli Foundation organizes various activities:
- Presentation of the Machiavelli Prize;
- Lunch meetings in Nieuwspoort The Hague;
- Breakfast debate between the campaign leaders of the different political parties, on the morning after the elections.
Lunch meetings
The lunch meetings are informal discussions about current topics. Professionals from the communications field, scientists, journalists and educators discuss with each other. Interested parties can be present.
Machiavelli
The Machiavelli Foundation wants people from the communications profession, politics, government and citizens to exchange ideas in a meaningful way. The media play a major role in this. Awarding the Machiavelli Prize is the foundation’s main activity.
Niccolo Machiavelli
PR agency Van Rossum & Partners founded the Machiavelli Foundation in 1987. Later the foundation, which is named after the political scientist and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, became independent. Machiavelli lived in Italy at the end of the 15th century, in Florence. He wrote, among other things, the book Il Principe, which was published in 1512. In the book he advocates stability, from which to achieve prosperity and well-being that benefits all citizens. Citizens can only be protected by a strong state, Machiavelli believes.
Contact details
- Machiavelli Foundation
- Bezuidenhoutseweg 101a
- 2594 AC The Hague
- Telephone: 06-11 39 14 07
- Email [email protected]
- Web www.stichtingmachiavelli.nl
Machiavelli Prize Winners
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year |
winner |
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2023 |
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2022 |
Johan Remkes |
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2021 |
Gerrit Hiemstra |
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2020 |
Marion Koopmans and Diederik Gommers |
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2019 |
Bellingcat |
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2018 |
The threatened mayor |
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2017 |
Lilianne Ploumen |
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2016 |
Hugo Borst & Carin Gaemers |
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2015 |
Dutch Safety Board (OVV) |
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2014 |
RTL |
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2013 |
Eberhard van der Laan, mayor of Amsterdam |
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2012 |
Bauke Vaatstra |
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2011 |
HRH Princess Maxima |
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2010 |
National coach Bert van Marwijk |
Previous award winners were:
- investigative journalist Jeroen Smit;
- European Commissioner Neelie Kroes;
- columnist Jan Blokker;
- former SP leader Jan Marijnissen;
- the Voting Guide;
- Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board.
Machiavelli Prize 2012
Bauke Vaatstra
For thirteen years, Bauke Vaatstra kept his daughter’s murder in the news. Until the solution was resolved by the arrest, Vaatstra thought that a breakthrough would eventually come by maintaining attention. He was right about that.
Jury report
In its jury report, the Machiavelli Foundation says the following about the choice: because he engaged the media in a persistent, professional and authentic manner for thirteen years, which enabled the perpetrator of his daughter’s murder to be traced. Through his media appearances, Vaatstra first managed to prevent the case from becoming a cold case. Thanks to his public persistence and insistence, it finally became possible to conduct large-scale DNA research in 2012. Vaatstra’s consistent plea for large-scale DNA research has acted as a crowbar for a breakthrough in legislation, which has also brought the solution of other cold cases closer. He has thus made an important contribution to restoring public confidence in the legal order. The significance of his public role goes much further than solving the murder of his daughter.
No party for Vaatstra
The jury report describes the significance of Vaatstra for future cases: Above all, Bauke Vaatstra has ensured that the police and the Public Prosecution Service can no longer ignore victims and surviving relatives of serious crimes, now and in the future. The jury concludes with the conclusion: The presentation of the 2012 Machiavelli Prize is therefore not a celebration, but a tribute to a man who did not give up. Vaatstra will receive his prize on February 12, 2013 in Nieuwspoort in The Hague.
Criticism
Bauke Vaatstra was criticized in January 2013. A number of people are complaining about the prize winner because he allegedly stirred up a smear campaign against asylum seekers in 1999. Many, from the vicinity of AZC Kollum and from wider surroundings, were convinced that an asylum seeker had murdered Marianne Vaatstra.
Nettie Groeneveld, then director of AZC De Poelpleats in Kollum, was one of the objectors who criticized Vaatstra’s role in the conspiracy theories.
Another objector was former director Guido Klabbers of Vluchtelingenwerk Leeuwarden. He said that he was threatened by Vaatstra by telephone in 1999. At the time, Klabbers criticized the protests against the asylum seeker center in Kollum in the Leeuwarder Courant. He did not press charges at the time. He does this anyway to prevent Vaatstra from getting the prize. Bauke Vaatstra denies knowing Klabbers in the Volkskrant and having threatened him. The Machiavelli Foundation ignores the criticism of the prize winner: Vaatstra simply receives the prize. He will receive the award on February 13, 2013. He dedicates it to his murdered daughter with the words: ,Marianne, we will never forget you., .
Machiavelli Prize 2013
Eberhard van der Laan
Mayor Eberhard van der Laan of Amsterdam received the 2013 Machiavelli Prize in 2014. Van der Laan received the prize because he is an example of clarity and clarity in an administrative world in which many people take refuge in veiled language.
The awards ceremony will be on February 4, 2014.
Machiavelli Prize 2014
RTL
At the beginning of 2015, RTL will receive the Machiavelli Prize for 2014. RTL is a large commercial broadcaster, but more than that. Over the past 25 years, RTL has developed into a broadcaster that is innovative, daring and has a binding effect.
Machiavelli Prize 2015
Dutch Safety Board
In February 2016, the Dutch Safety Board received the Machiavelli Prize for the remarkable achievements in the field of public communication, including the report on the MH-17 aircraft disaster. The OVV has provided clarity for the relatives and communicated its information well.
Machiavelli Prize 2016
Hugo Borst and Carin Gaemers
In February 2017, Hugo Borst and Carin Gaemers won the 2016 Machiavelli Prize for their manifesto Focus on Parent Care. Together they formed the most effectively communicating action group of recent times, according to the jury. The duo put elderly care on the map and ensured that the highly charged political debate on this subject was depoliticized. They managed to enforce a highly exceptional unanimity among the political parties. Their initiative, with which they generated a lot of publicity, started in the corridors of a nursing home and resulted in a manifesto aimed at improving elderly care. That manifesto was signed more than 100,000 times. Prime Minister Rutte promised two billion euros for elderly care in February 2017.
Machiavelli Prize 2017
Lilianne Ploumen
Former Minister of Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen wins the Machiavelli Prize for her initiative SheDiecides. The organization was founded by Ploumen after US President Donald Trump decided to cut back on family planning in poor countries. SheDecides compensates for that measure. Nearly €400 million was raised in record time to support girls and women in deciding whether to have children or not.
Machiavelli Prize 2018
Endangered mayors
In 2018, the Machiavelli Prize will be awarded for the 30th time. The prize has been awarded to The Endangered Mayor. Several mayors were threatened that year and therefore had difficulty communicating publicly because of the threat of violence. The threatened mayors are given encouragement with the award. Threat to a public institution affects the roots of democracy and is completely unacceptable, writes the jury report. Haarlem Mayor Jos Wienen, one of the mayors in need of security, accepts the award on behalf of the group of threatened mayors. It is the 30th time that the prize has been awarded. The presentation of the prize and the Machiavelli lecture will take place on February 13, 2019 in the Nieuwspoort Press Center in The Hague.
Machiavelli Prize 2019
Bellingcat
Journalism collective Bellingcat has been awarded the 2019 Machiavelli Prize. Bellingcat receives the prize for its innovative approach to investigative journalism at a time when the world is flooded with ‘fake news’. Bellingcat led to groundbreaking revelations with its research method. Bellingcat is a research collective that investigates and analyzes all possible information carriers to create a complete scenario of an event.
The prize is being awarded for the 31st time. The presentation will be held on February 12, 2020 by the chairman of the Machiavelli Foundation Marja Wagenaar at the Nieuwspoort Press Center in The Hague.
Machiavelli Prize 2020
Marion Koopmans and Diederik Gommers
Professor of virology Marion Koopmans and chairman of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care Diederik Gommers will receive the 2020 Machialli Prize. They will receive the prize because of their continued efforts to make science about the coronavirus accessible to a wide audience. The two manage to distinguish facts and fables about the virus in an understandable language again and again.
Chairman of the Machiavelli Foundation Marja Wagenaar will present the prize on February 15, 2021 in the Nieuwspoort Press Center. The awards ceremony will be held for the 32nd time in 2021. Due to the corona measures, the public cannot attend the ceremony. There will be a broadcast of the award ceremony on Monday, February 15, 2021 at 5:00 PM on NPO Politics.
Machiavelli Prize 2021
Gerrit Hiemstra
Meteorologist and weatherman at NOS Gerrit Hiemstra will receive the 2021 Machiavelli Prize because he makes climate change and its consequences transparent to a wide audience in an appealing way. Jury report: With boundless energy he highlights the causes and consequences of climate change. He explains, he explains and he contradicts, where necessary. Everything in understandable language, with science as a basis.
Hiemstra will receive the prize on Wednesday, February 9, at the Nieuwspoort Press Center in The Hague. It is the 33rd time that the prize has been awarded.
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