Submit Applications for the TWAS Awards
Deadline Date: April 05, 2024
Donor Name: The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000
https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-awards
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is providing nine awards to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years.
The TWAS Awards (previosuly called ‘TWAS Prizes’) are awarded to individual scientists from developing countries in recognition of an outstanding contribution to scientific knowledge in nine fields of sciences and/or to the application of science and technology to sustainable development.
Award Fields
- Agriculture,
- Nutrition & Food Systems Sciences;
- Biological Sciences;
- Chemical Sciences;
- Earth,
- Climate & Environmental Sciences;
- Engineering & Computer Sciences;
- Mathematical Sciences;
- Medical & Health Sciences;
- Physics,
- Astronomy & Space Sciences;
- Social Sciences.
Award Information
- TWAS provides nine awards of USD 10,000 each.
- Each award is accompanied by a plaque.
- Awards are usually presented on a special occasion, often coinciding with the General Meeting of TWAS.
Eligibility Criteria
- Candidates for a TWAS Award must be scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least ten years immediately prior to their nomination. They must meet at least one of the following qualifications:
- Scientific research achievement of outstanding significance for the development of scientific thought.
- Outstanding contribution to the application of science and technology to sustainable development.
- The outstanding contribution may be defined in relation to existing opportunities and realistic possibilities available to the candidate.
- This applies particularly to candidates from scientifically disadvantaged countries.
- Members of TWAS are not eligible for TWAS Awards.
- Nominations from jury members in the scientific disciplines in which they serve as Independent Expert Committee member will not be considered.
- Self-nominations will not be considered.
Selection Criteria
- Selection of the awardees is made on scientific merit and on the recommendations of the selection committees composed of TWAS members. The names of the winners will be announced on the first day of the next TWAS General Conference. The winners will be invited to receive their award during the 2026 TWAS General Conference.
For more information, visit TWAS.
