Deadline: 22 January 2025
The Lundbeck Foundation is pleased to invite nominations for its Scientific Enrichment Prize to celebrate individuals who have taken leadership to embrace and harness diversity to develop creative solutions to complex scientific problems and to enrich scientific environments and culture in the biomedical, health and clinical fields.
Diversity, for the Lundbeck Foundation, is in its broadest sense and includes, but is not limited to, methods, ways of working, technology, field of research, gender, and background.
The Lundbeck Foundation’s ambition is to make Denmark leading in neuroscience research by funding relevant biomedical, health, clinical and other sciences in Denmark. The goal is to foster world-class research at Danish universities and Danish university hospitals. To solve complex problems, now and in the future, a range of different competencies and perspectives are needed.
Prize Information
- The prize is a personal prize of DKK 100,000 and is awarded once annually.
Who can be nominated?
- Individuals who have taken leadership to embrace and harness diversity to develop creative solutions to complex scientific problems and to enrich scientific environments and culture in the biomedical, health and clinical fields the biomedical, health and clinical field.
- The nominee must have achieved results in relation to diversity in their research and research group, institute, center or faculty.
- The recipient of the award must be employed at a Danish research institution at the time the award is given.
Who can nominate?
- Nominations are open for anyone.
- Self-nomination is not accepted.
Evaluation Criteria
- The nominee’s systematic approach to, and proactivity in, initiatives related to diversity both in their research and in their work environment.
- Diversity in the nominee’s own research activities- how bringing together and using different methods, areas, disciplines, etc. has heightened the nominee’s research results.
- Diversity and inclusion in the organization of the nominee’s team itself- competencies, education, culture, nationality, age, gender, etc.
- Activities outside the nominee’s “own” area- participation in and organization of events/ initiatives reaching beyond the nominee’s immediate workplace.
Application Requirements
- The nomination should include:
- A statement describing the nominee’s initiatives and achievements in promoting scientific enrichment in the context of the evaluation criteria (max. 5,000 characters)
- A brief CV of the nominee (max. 5,000 characters)
For more information, visit Lundbeck Foundation.
