/EDCTP Prizes 2023 – Contest information Outstanding Research Team Prize

EDCTP Prizes 2023 – Contest information Outstanding Research Team Prize

Awarded to outstanding research teams from sub-Saharan Africa and Europe working in the scope of the EDCTP2 programme.

Contestants must be a consortium or group of partners who are:

  • Residents of a sub-Saharan African country, or an EU Member State, or a country associated with the Horizon 2020 programme
  • Actively involved in research, capacity development and networking in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe with outstanding achievements and scientific and policy impact in their respective fields
  • Tackling EDCTP2 programme priority issues in poverty-related diseases (PRDs)
  • Building and who have successfully built effective and equitable South-North partnerships through collaboration
  • Addressing priority research questions and have produced health policy relevant deliverables, such as research data implemented into policy and practice
  • Producing high-impact publications and who have achieved significant capacity building outputs at local research sites

The Outstanding Research Team Prize consists if a recognition trophy and a cash prize of €50,000.

The cash prize should be used to further the research programmes of the winners and may support activities such as study visits and training attachments to collaborating institutions, data collection for baseline studies, conference and meeting attendance, and other relevant research-related activities. The objective of this award is to encourage scientific/research excellence, translation of research into policy and practice, sustainable capacity development coupled with skills and technology transfer.

Nominations procedure

Deadline is 17:00 CEST on Friday 16 June 2023.

Nominations must be submitted using the application form (Word) to prizes@edctp.org

Applications must be readable, accessible and printable. Incomplete applications may be considered inadmissible if essential elements are missing.

Prize winners will be notified in advance of the Eleventh EDCTP Forum.

Exclusions

  • Nomination of contestants who are currently employees of the EDCTP Association or serving on one of the EDCTP Association advisory (Scientific Advisory Committee) or governing (General Assembly and Board) bodies will not be permitted.
  • Contestants who have already received an EDCTP2 prize before cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.

Rules of contest can be downloaded here.