Entries open for Outstanding Research Team Prize

Prize Information

• Outstanding Research Team Prize: EUR 50,000

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, all applicants of a research team must:
  • be a natural person or a legal person;
  • be established (residing) in a SSA country that is a member of the EDCTP Association or the EU or a country associated to Horizon Europe.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Current employees of Global Health EDCTP3, any EU institution, agency or body, the EDCTP Association or people serving on one of Global Health EDCTP3 or EDCTP Association advisory or governing bodies (including working groups) may not apply to any of the prizes nor provide letters of support.
• Applicants that have already received an EDCTP prize may not receive a second prize for the same activities.
• Applicants which are subject to an EU exclusion decision or in one of the following exclusion situations that bar them from receiving EU funding may not participate:
  • Bankruptcy, winding up, affairs administered by the courts, arrangement with creditors, suspended business activities or other similar procedures (including procedures for persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts)
  • In breach of social security or tax obligations (including if done by persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts)
  • Guilty of grave professional misconduct (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the prize)
  • Committed fraud, corruption, links to a criminal organisation, money laundering, terrorism-related crimes (including terrorism financing), child labour or human trafficking (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the prize).

Selection Criteria

• This prize is awarded to the entry that best addresses the following cumulative criteria based on their application, that should also include a letter of support from other member(s) of the research community:
  • Scientific contribution and excellence:
    • The contestant team should have achieved the goal of taking on Global Health EDCTP3 programme priority issues in poverty-related diseases.
    • The contestant team should have been actively involved in research, capacity development and networking in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe with outstanding achievements and scientific and policy impact in the fields of HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis or malaria or neglected infectious diseases.
  • Impact: The contestant team should have built effective and equitable South-North partnerships to answer the priority research questions and produced health-policy relevant deliverables, such as research data implemented into policy and practice, high impact publications and significant capacity building outputs at local research sites.

Application Requirements

• Mandatory annexes and supporting documents:
  • letter(s) of support from a reputable scientist and short CV of the person providing the letter.
  • CV of the applicant(s).

For more information, visit European Commission.