2005 EURYI winners awards announced

This November, twenty-five science researchers will receive EURYI awards to enable them to create research teams in Europe to focus on cutting-edge science research.

About to enter its third year, EURYI – the European Young Investigator Awards scheme – is designed to attract outstanding young scientists from any country in the world to create their own research teams at European research centres. Most awards are between €1,000,000 and €1,250,000 and comparable in size to the Nobel Prize.

The provisional list of awardees for 2005 includes researchers from 11 countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The provisional list of names, project titles and project host countries is attached. The confirmed list of awardees with summary details of their projects will be posted on the EURYI website at the beginning of September.

The EURYI Awards are offered by 20 European national research organisations in an open competition with no “juste retour”, with candidates selected on the basis of their academic and research excellence and their future potential.  Competition is intensive, with 622 applications received for this Second Call. 

The EURYI Awards scheme was developed by the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCS), in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF), to attract outstanding young researchers from anywhere in the world to work in Europe for the further development of European science, contributing to building up the next generation of leading European researchers. The First Call of the scheme was launched in September 2003, and resulted in 25 Awards being made in July 2004.

Candidates are selected by a two-stage process, firstly at the national level by the relevant Participating Organisation and secondly at the international level by high-level scientific panels managed by the ESF. ESF’s role in the coordination and selection processes of EURYI is supported by funds from the European Commission’s Framework Programme 6.

AWARD EVENT FOR THE EURYI AWARDS FOR 2005

The 2005 Awardees will receive a diploma at a special ceremony being organised at the beginning of the World Science Forum taking place in Budapest 10-12 November 2005. Press invitations and more detailed information about the awards will be circulated in mid-October. 

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE THIRD CALL FOR EURYI PROPOSALS

The Memorandum of Understanding committing Participating Organisations and ESF to the Third Call for EURYI proposals has recently been signed. The Call will be launched on 1st September 2005 and will have a submission deadline of 30 November 2005. The resulting Awards will be announced at the end of July 2006.

Details of the EURYI scheme, calls for proposals, participating organisations, proposal guidelines and details of awardees and their projects

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Category: Media Centre, Press Releases 2005