Please find links to awards accepting nominations listed below – last update September 18, 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
2026 European Inventor Award
The European Patent Office (EPO) award is one of Europe’s most prestigious innovation prizes and honors individuals and teams who have come up with solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time, contributing to technical progress, social and sustainable development, and economic prosperity. The lifetime achievement prize, in particular, honors the long-term contribution of an individual European inventor whose dedication, tireless efforts, and patented landmark inventions have had a major impact on their technical field and society.
◷ Due date for nominations and applications: September 30, 2025
Reticular Science Prize 2026
Sponsored by Atoco
The award, established by Atoco (founded by Omar Yaghi, Berkeley, USA), is a biennial international award recognizing outstanding research in reticular materials and their broad potential applications. The prize includes US$5,000, a certificate, and a 50-gram gold medal.
The 2026 Prize will be awarded at the MOF-2026 conference in New Orleans, USA, where the recipient will give a lecture on their work.
◷ Due date for nominations: October 1, 2025
Kavli Prize
The award honores scientists whose basic research has fundamentally transformed the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – the big, the small, and the complex. The prize consists of $1 million awards in each of the three fields and is awarded directly to the Laureate(s).
◷ Due date for nominations: October 1, 2025
JCF Best Supervisor Award 2026
The Young Chemists Forum (JCF) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) honors exceptional PhD supervisors in the DACH region (German-speaking countries in Central Europe: Germany Austria, Switzerland) to recognize outstanding mentorship, often overlooked despite its crucial role in successful doctoral completion. Doctoral candidates or recent graduates can nominate eligible group leaders.
◷ Due date for nominations: October 8, 2025
IUPAC-Soong Prize for Sustainable Chemistry
The IUPAC award is a high-profile prize to be awarded annually to an outstanding scientist for a breakthrough or conceptual advance, highlighting the discovery rather than the laureate’s luminous career.
The Prize laureate will receive a certificate, a medal, a monetary award of $30,000 (USD), and travel expenses to reach the prize ceremony . In addition to the prize ceremony, the awardee will be invited to present a lecture at the National Taiwan University within two years of receiving the award.
◷ Due date for nominations: November 15, 2025
ACS National Awards
The American Chemical Society (ACS) awards recognize outstanding contributions in chemistry, doctoral research, public service, commercialization of new products, and more. Candidates from diverse backgrounds and groups within the chemistry enterprise are encouraged to apply.
◷ Due date for nominations/applications: November 1, 2025
EuChemS Industry Innovation Award
The award honors outstanding achievements by researchers or teams of researchers working for industrial companies in the field of chemistry, or jointly by research teams from academia and/or from other research institutions.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 15, 2025
EuChemS Historical Landmarks
The award designates sites in Europe where events in chemistry (be it social, theoretical, experimental, pedagogic, industrial, …) occurred that have been important to the European or local (regional) chemical community and/or have inspired a sense of European or local (regional) belonging.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 15, 2025
EuChemS Award for Service
The award honors outstanding commitment with regard to fostering Chemistry in Europe and the goals of EuChemS.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 15, 2025
Future Insight™ Prize 2026
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 2026 to pioneers in the field of preventive medicine/early intervention – Smart Health Sensor.
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, 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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