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Scientific Prizes 2025 of the French Embassy

29. 01. 2025

The French Embassy is announcing a call for applications for the Scientific Prizes 2025 in the following scientific fields (conditions of participation attached):

 

  • CEFRES Platform Prize (organized by CEFRES) – information to be soon published on the CEFRES website, inquiries can be sent on madl@cefres.cz.

 

Applications are open to PhD students enrolled in a doctorate cycle (or postdoctoral fellows who have defended their PhD dissertation in 2024 or 2025), younger than 33 years old as of 1st May 2025 (extensions may be granted for those who were on maternal or parental leave), of Czech or Slovak nationality, with full-time employment at a CAS institute. Applicants must be authors of at least one scientific paper published or accepted for publication in a peer reviewed International journal.

Interested candidates must send the following documents in English:

  • Professional CV (including rewarded grants and awards)
  • institution and supervisor of their master’s or PhD thesis
  • List of publications (including impact factor and quartile)
  • Annotation (of the project that the candidate would present before the jury (about ½ page in English)

Please send your applications at the latest by 7 March 2025 to the e-mail address whalen@kav.cas.cz, please mention the name of the prize you are applying for in the subject of the e-mail. The research topic (content of the project), not the field of doctoral study, is the determining criterion for applying for individual Prizes, but for the Prize in the field of medicine, working in a hospital or medical institution is a requirement.

Already established CAS coordinators will then select the candidates to be nominated for the prizes on behalf of the CAS based on the submitted documents. According to the rules (see individual conditions) the coordinators will nominate given number of the best candidates.

These candidates will then present their research in front of selection committees during May and June (exact dates can be found in the respective prize conditions).

The winners will be officially announced on 26th June 2025. Awarded candidates will receive financial support and, for the first two places, also a scholarship in France (may differ depending on the prize). The Prize ceremony should also be attended by the supervisors of the nominated candidates' dissertations and representatives of the relevant CAS institutes.

Further information is available on the website of the French Institute.

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Albert Schweitzer Prize in medicine is only open for applicants working in a hospital or in a related healthcare institution with routine medical or paramedical activity.

Photograph - source: https://www.ifp.cz/fr/science-et-universite/science-et-recherche/promotion-de-la-science/prix-scientifiques/#/

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