Opportunities

Prizes and Awards
TWAS has long recognized that prizes and awards provide an incentive for scientists to do their best work, while winning global recognition. Today, 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─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 award will honour scientists working in an area relevant to sustainability.
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Partner Organizations
-
Field
Sustainability
Age limit
None
TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science
This newly established award will recognize scientists not older than 45 who are living and working in a developing country. The first edition of the award will recognize achievements in the physical sciences, including physics and chemistry.
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Partner Organizations
Chinese Academy of Sciences Lenovo
Field
Physical Sciences (physics and chemistry)
Age limit
45
The OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World
An awards programme to celebrate excellent women scientists from developing countries
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Partner Organizations
Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World
Field
Physical Sciences: Chemistry, Maths and Physics
Age limit
None
TWAS Regional Awards
Each of the Academy's five regional offices provide an award of USD3,000 each year. The award rotate each year among the following four areas: popularization of science, development of scientific educational material, building scientific institutions and science diplomacy.
Deadline
None
Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
All developing countries
Field
popularization of science, development of scientific educational material, building scientific institutions, science diplomacy
Age limit
None
AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards
The African Union and TWAS offer support for African countries to establish awards for young African scientists. TWAS, the African Union (AU) and national ministries of science and technology are entering into partnerships with national science academies, scientific research councils and high-level research organizations in Africa to establish 'AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards’.
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Partner Organizations
African Union
Field
None
Age limit
40
The Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize (2005-2008, 2009-2012)
TWAS and Illycaffè s.p.a. established a high-level prize to honour distinguished scientists from developing countries. The Trieste Town Council and the Trieste International Foundation for Scientific Progress and Freedom collaborated in this effort.
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Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
Science- and technology-lagging countries
Field
None
Age limit
None
TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize in Social Sciences
With funding from the Brazilian Government for four years, the prize will recognize social scientists who have been living and working in a developing country for at least 10 years.
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Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
All developing countries
Field
Social Sciences
Age limit
None
The TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists (2009-2011)
The Prize recognized young scientists in Africa whose research in computer science promises to have a positive impact in the developing world. Each year, three winners were selected from different countries on the continent. Each recipient received a 7,000-euro cash award generously contributed by Microsoft.
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Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
AU-TWAS countries
Field
None
Age limit
None
The BioVision-Lilly Award in conjunction with TWAS
The Prize recognized young scientists from developing countries who have a track record of excellent research in infectious diseases, with an emphasis on tuberculosis preferred, and promise to have a positive impact in the developing world.
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Partner Organizations
-
Eligible Nominees from
All developing countries
Field
Medical sciences
Age limit
None

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