Nominations are now closed, keep your eye out for more information!
One of the highlights of the International Students For Liberty Conference is the Annual Awards Presentation. In 2009, Students For Liberty began to recognize outstanding students and student groups that have distinguished themselves in the battle for liberty on campus. That tradition has continued with the awards becoming more competitive every year as more and more students demonstrate their outstanding accomplishments for liberty. Award recipients are chosen based on their hard work, organizational skills, value creation, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Check out past winners from 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Nominations for the 2015 ISFLC Awards
Do you think a student in your group or the entire group itself has made major contributions to the student movement for liberty in 2014? Did you host big events this fall or spread liberty across your state in a big way? Well now is the time to submit nominations for the 2015 Student Awards at the ISFLC! Just like previous years, we’ll be accepting nominations for the Student Group of the Year, Event of the Year, and Student of the Year. Below is the form you can use to make nominations. Keep in mind, not only can you nominate fellow students, groups, and events, you can also nominate yourself, your student group, or an event held on your campus. Nominations are now closed, but we’ll be sifting through them all and updating this page soon enough with final nominees.
Check out last year’s award winners below for an idea of what it takes to win:
2014 ISFLC Award Winners
Restart Balkans – Event of the Year
Students For Liberty Greece
The largest gathering of pro-liberty students and supporters in Greece successfully concluded at the 2013 Restart Balkans Conference in Komotene, Thrace, on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 November 2013. The venue proved to be very small for our huge audience and as a result more than 60 participants were registered only for the second day, since there was no available room on the first day, either for seated or standing attendees. With over 340 attendees on the first day and more than 250 the second Students for Liberty – Greece and especially the local branch, “Youth Business Network”, organized a weekend of liberty with exciting lectures, breakouts, entrepreneurship sessions, a student debate, a liberty wall and plenty of socials. This ended up becoming the biggest libertarian conference in Greece, and was an important tool in helping continue to spread the message of liberty in the region.
Masaryk University Students For Liberty (Czech Republic) – Group of the Year
The group’s mission is to spread and communicate the ideas of liberty as well as get students involved in ESFL. They organized lectures throughout the year without any support, and despite an effort to make everything as low cost as possible they had couple of successful events not only in Brno, but in Prague too. Additionally, they have redistributed dozens of SFL’s books and recently started to translating “Why Liberty” into Czech as well as Slovak. They created their own website to publish articles about libertarianism as well as short political comments from other students. They’ve organized “Liberty Evenings” — informal meetings of students interested in ideas of liberty aimed on a certain topic, throughout the Fall semester. All Liberty Evenings have had an average attendance of 25 students. They will be organizing a trip to ESFLC 2014 in Berlin, as more than 20 students from Brno have signed up so far and two of their leaders are making the trip to ISFLC.
Isack Danford – Student of the Year
University of Dodoma — Tanzania
Isack is an SFL Charter Team Member and leader of Tanzanian Students For Liberty and a student at Dodoma University. He managed to bring more than 1,100 students from Kenya and Tanzania to the SFL global network during outreach he conducted in the spring and fall periods. He also organized 11 events both in and outside university campuses, including 3 seminars in Kenya, 4 seminars in Tanzania, 8 tabling events, and a leadership forum. He has added a lot of value to East African SFL in terms of number of students reached, groups formed on campuses, and events held both on and off these campuses.