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Prizes and Awards
TWAS has long recognized that prizes and awards provide an incentive for scientists to do their best work, while winning them global acknowledgment. Honours awarded by TWAS and its partners are among the most prestigious given for research in the developing world. They range from the TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize, which celebrates the very best research in the South, to prizes awarded to early-career scientists already making impressive contributions to their field.
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TWAS Awards
The Academy provides nine awards to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years. The cycle of the TWAS Awards is now every two years.
Deadline
31 March 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Developing countries in the South
Field
Agricultural Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Medical Sciences, Physics and Social Sciences*
Age limit
None
TWAS Siwei Cheng Award in Economic Sciences
With funding from the Siwei Cheng Foundation of the Education Foundation of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the award will recognize economic scientists who have been living and working in a developing country for at least 10 years. The cycle of the Award is now every two years.
Deadline
31 March 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Developing countries in the South
Field
Economic Sciences
Age limit
None
TWAS-Lenovo Science Award
The TWAS-Lenovo Science Award is one of the most prestigious honours given to scientists from the developing world. Next call will refer to as the 2022 TWAS-Lenovo Science Award.
Deadline
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Developing countries in the South
Field
None
Age limit
None
TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science
This annual award, established in year 2020, recognizes scientific achievements by young scientists living and working in a developing country. The third edition of the award will recognize achievements in Earth Sciences. The award, worth USD 10,000, is sponsored by Lenovo Ltd.
Deadline
20 April 2022
Partner Organizations
Chinese Academy of Sciences Lenovo
Eligible Nominees from
Developing countries in the South
Field
Earth Sciences
Age limit
45
TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry
The 2022 award, sponsored by Searle Company Ltd, will be given to a chemist not older than 40, national of a science-and-technology lagging country (STLC), who has been living and working there for a minimum of two years immediately prior to his/her nomination. The award is worth $5,000.
Deadline
20 April 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Science- and technology-lagging countries
Field
Chemistry
Age limit
40
TWAS-Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Award
This annual award, named after the TWAS Fellow Samira Omar, recognizes scientists from Least Developed Countries (LDCs). It carries a cash award of USD4,000 generously provided by Professor Omar. The 2022 award will honour a scientist working in an area relevant to sustainability.
Deadline
20 April 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Least developed countries
Field
Sustainability
Age limit
None
TWAS-Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Award
This annual award, named after the TWAS Fellow Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi, recognizes women scientists from Scientifically and Technologically Lagging (STL) countries. It carries a cash award of USD4,000 generously provided by Professor Al-Kharafi and will rotate among various fields of science. In 2022 the award will be given in Agricultural Sciences or Biology.
Deadline
20 April 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Science- and technology-lagging countries
Field
Agricultural Sciences or Biology
Age limit
None
TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences
This award, named after TWAS Fellow Quarraisha Abdool Karim, carries a cash award of USD5,000 generously provided by Professor Abdool Karim. It is designed to honour women scientists in Low Income African countries for their achievements in Biological Sciences.
Deadline
20 April 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Angola
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Central African Rep.
Chad
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea Equatorial
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Niger
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Field
Biological Sciences
Age limit
None
TWAS-Mohammad A. Hamdan Award
Starting from year 2020, this biennial award is named after TWAS’s late Vice President for the Arab Region, Prof. Hamdan. It is given for outstanding mathematical work carried out by a scientist working and living in Africa or Arab regions.
Deadline
20 April 2022
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Algeria
Angola
Bahrain
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Rep.
Chad
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Congo, Rep.
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Eswatini, Kingdom of
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea Equatorial
Guinea-Bissau
Iraq
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Oman
Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip)
Qatar
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Syria
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Field
Mathematical Sciences
Age limit
None
TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal
The TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal was instituted in 1995 to honour the Academy's founder and first president, Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam and is awarded to highly distinguished personalities who have served the cause of science in the Developing World. The next TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal will be conferred in 2022 on the occasion of the election of the new Council of TWAS.
Deadline
None
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Any country
Field
Any
Age limit
None

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