Award Ceremony for the 2023 Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize

On Thursday, 8 June, the Official Award Ceremony for the 2023 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize will be awarded in the University Aula in Bergen, Norway.
HRH Crown Prince Haakon will confer the Holberg Prize upon Professor Emeritus Joan Martinez-Alier. Minister of Research and Higher Education Ola Borten Moe will confer the Nils Klim Prize upon Associate Professor Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen.
The event is open to the public by registration.
The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Prize is worth NOK 6,000,000 (approximately EUR 600,000 / USD 670,000).
The Nils Klim Prize is awarded in the same academic fields, to a scholar under 35 years from/in a Nordic country, and is worth NOK 500,000.
Photo: Eivind Senneset / The Holberg Prize

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As a huge fan of Ludvig Holberg, from his local city, and having read all his writings (almost), I must salute the winners. It was great that Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen was familiar (in-depth, a litle dept or both) with Holberg. In her speech she so elegantly touched into the humorous layers of knowledge Holberg have past on. Great! Professor Emeritus Joan Martinez-Alier showed a lot of humble gratitude reading him self up on Holberg and the Alta-conflict. Touching so softly into why a prize carries Holbergs name was true and funny. But, small countries - especially those with a short history going solo, needs names! Anyways, he certainly was familiar with our local musiscian Edvard Grieg, even if the Holberg suite had to be googled. Mr. Martinez-Alier being direct crushing the term “circular economy” based on the most fundamental law of physics (second law of thermodynamics, with regards to entropy) was simple and elegant (even if it is so fundamental and easy it is and have been obvious for many from the start). His message meets a problem not only of the school systems, being too few knows the basics if physics, but because politicians - as in EU - promotes this logical fallacy. It is a very, very deep problem, wherein those budgeting and directing education at the same time spend resources on propaganda with information that is nonsense. Professor Holberg, or economist Holberg, or human Ludvig, would never ever do or promote what politicians of today do. (I’m quite sure minister Borten-Moe didn’t understand the implications of the speech.) Professor Emeritus Martinez-Alier held a very interesting speech. Thank you!