The board of KJF and Leiden University College (LUC) have decided to cooperate and now for the first time organise the 2025 Kavien’s Justice Award, for graduating students of LUC. The selection of the winner is be based on the student’s capstone (Bachelor’s thesis). LUC has selected four nominees and the expert jury appointed by KJF selected a winner from the nominees. The prize is awarded in an LUC ceremony, on July 4, 2025. The winner received a trophy, a certificate, and a prize of 2000€.
The award is a collaboration between the KJF and LUC. There were 4 nominees: Fabian Haug, Idil Tok, Antonia Till, and Milena de Roode Torres Georiadis (winner). Here is the: Jury Report (2025). The jury consisted of:
The 2025 Award winner is Milena de Roode Torres Georgiadis. A summary of her award-winning LUC Bachelor's thesis ‘When Culture Shields Land: Heritage Recognition as a Tool for the Territorial Protection of Quilombola Communities’, supervised by Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida at Leiden University College, is available from this website. The research explores the role of cultural heritage for the protection of traditional communities’ lands. The summary can be found here: Outline of thesis (in English).
The first video is Simon Minks explaining the award just before it was presented in The Hague. The second video was recorded by student Milena, some time after she received the award. She speaks about Kavien, about the award and what it meant to her. The third video is part of LUC's graduation ceremony when the Kavien Justice Award was presented on July 4, 2025