Call for Nominations: Danubis Young Scientist Award 2019

The Danubius Young Scientist Award will be granted to 14 young scientists - one in each country that is part of the EUSDR. The award seeks to encourage young scientists to engage in the scientific examination of problems and questions specifically related to the Danube and to stimulate the scientific community in the Danube region. The award will be endowed with 1.200,- Euros for each winner of the Danubius Young Scientist Award. Moreover, thanks to the ongoing kind support by the JRC, the awardees will be invited by the European Commission´s Joint Research Centre to visit the JRC in Ispra, Italy in 2020.
 
The award ceremony is expected to take place in Bucharest in November 2019.
  • Nominations will be accepted in electronic format and in English only.
  • Nominations including all relevant documents have to be sent to: d.martinek@idm.at
  • The deadline for submitting nominations is on 31st May 2019 at 23:59.
The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) to honor persons with extraordinary scientific achievements and output in relation to the Danube Region. Within a rotation system in one year achievements in the fields of humanities, social and cultural studies are awarded, in the following year achievements in the fields of life sciences.

You can find award criteria and further information on the website of the Danubius Young Scientist Award.