Deadline: 15-Mar-23

The Jacobs Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2023 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.

The prize awards outstanding scientific contributions of individuals from all scholarly disciplines aiming at improving learning, development, and living conditions of children and youth. This includes, but is not limited to, educational sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, family studies, media studies, political sciences, linguistics, neurosciences, computer sciences, and medical sciences.

Prize Details

• The prize is endowed with 1 Mio. Swiss Francs, of which 900’000 Swiss Francs are for use in a research project and 100’000 Swiss Francs are for related costs, such as travel, networking, and dissemination.
• The prize has a global scope. It addresses scholars who have achieved major breakthroughs in understanding child development and learning, embrace learning variability and individual differences, and have the potential to advance the field by actively conducting research.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nominations are open to all scholarly disciplines dealing with or contributing to the successful development and learning of children and youth.
• The nominee’s research must have led to major, ground-breaking contributions to the field of child and youth development and learning.
• The nominee should be an active researcher and still have several years of active work life ahead.
• On each call, nominators are limited to the submission of a maximum of 4 nominations.
• Self-nominations are not accepted.
• The nominee must be an individual researcher. Organisations or research teams cannot be nominated.
• Prior nomination does not exclude a candidate from consideration in subsequent years.
• The prize recipient will be asked to participate in the prize ceremony, as well as potentially in other outreach and scientific activities related to or initiated by the Jacobs Foundation.

For more information, visit Jacobs Foundation.