Please find links to awards accepting nominations listed below – last update November 4, 2024
EuChemS Gold Medal
The award recognizes exceptional achievements of one scientist working in the field of Chemistry in Europe. The nominee must be working in a country with a EuChemS Member Organisation at the time of the nomination. The award recipient will give the opening lecture at the next EuChemS Congress, receive a gold medal and certificate, and have travel expenses covered.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 9, 2024
Future Insight™ Prize 2025
Sponsored by Merck KGaA
The award aims to stimulate innovative solutions to solve some of humanities greatest problems and to realize the dreams for a better tomorrow in the areas of health, nutrition, and energy. The EUR 1,000,000 prize is being awarded in 2025 to pioneers in the topic Health – Body organ generator.
Regenerative medicine deals with the “process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human or animal cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function”.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 31, 2024
Hermann Neuhaus Prize 2025
The Max Planck Society award honors excellent postdocs and research group leaders who are conducting research with the potential for application at a Max Planck Institute. The prize money is 25,000 euros (20,000 euros are earmarked for research funds, 5,000 euros are for the prize winner´s personal use).
◷ Due date for applications: February 15, 2025
KlarText Prize for Science Communication
The Klaus Tschira Stiftung awards German speaking young researchers who have completed a doctoral thesis in the fields of biology, chemistry, computer science, geosciences, mathematics, neuroscience, or physics within the last two years. Applicants are encouraged to translate their complex research into accessible articles or engaging infographics for a general audience. Winners receive €7,500 and their work is published in the “KlarText” knowledge magazine.
◷ Due date for applications: February 28, 2025
Paracelsus Prize
The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) award recognizes outstanding scientific research in the field of chemistry at an international level. Winners are chosen irrespective of nationality. SCS membership is not a requirement. The prize consists of CHF 20’000 and a medal in gold.
◷ Due date for nominations and applications: September 30, 2025
EurJIC-Wöhler Young Investigator Prize 2026
Sponsored by Chemistry Europe
The award of the Wöhler Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie (Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry), a division of the GDCh (German Chemical Society), and the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (EurJIC) honors a young scientist of any nationality who has completed a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry for an excellent scientific publication in a field within inorganic chemistry. The selected paper, in which the candidate appears as correspondence author, should have been published within two years before the nomination. The nominee will be an independent researcher, but not yet in an established academic or industrial position.
Eligible for nomination are researchers in industry or academia with responsibility in an appropriate field. The prize is endowed with EUR 1500 and a lecture at the GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry.
◷ Due date for nominations: March 30, 2026
E-mail to Nicole Bürger, GDCh: [email protected]
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