Call for Nominations: IWA MEWE Mid-Career Award 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 11, 2025

Nominations are open for the International Water Association (IWA) MEWE Mid-Career Award 2025. The IWA MEWE Mid-Career Award acknowledges sustained accomplishments of a mid-profession skilled within the discipline of Microbial Ecology & Water Engineering (MEWE), who’s inside 15 years after PhD/highest diploma on the time of nomination, and who’re energetic not solely within the educational surroundings but additionally within the trade or (non-)governmental organisations, amongst different related sectors.

The nominee should present a observe file of unique, impactful and progressive scientific concepts that contribute to unravel key native and/or world water points through microbial ecology and water engineering. The nominee will need to have demonstrated management within the discipline of MEWE, in addition to sustained help to the event of younger professionals who will implement MEWE ideas sooner or later. Other fascinating qualities embrace an energetic engagement with stakeholders past academia/analysis of their work, and key contributions to (inter)nationwide water skilled our bodies.

Eligibility

The nominee is required to satisfy the next standards:

• Is inside 15 years after PhD or different highest awarded diploma, excluding profession breaks (to be recognized within the CV).
• Has a observe file of unique, impactful, and progressive concepts within the discipline of MEWE.
• Has been addressing key native and/or world water points of their work.
• Has been an energetic IWA member by sustained contributions to the IWA group by way of occasions and actions (e.g., chairperson/organiser of IWA conferences, administration committee member of an IWA specialist group, member of an IWA process pressure, organiser of workshops or webinar sequence, volunteer), or every other related contribution.
• Demonstrates notable management inside the discipline of MEWE through an energetic position, e.g., in (inter)nationwide skilled our bodies of the water sector, in widening the IWA-MEWE community by reaching out to different associated societies or organisations, in addition to within the coaching and mentoring of younger professionals.
• Demonstrates an energetic engagement with different stakeholders akin to native communities, governmental businesses, NGOs, the trade, amongst different related entities, for disseminating MEWE ideas.

Application

The nominee should present:

• A brief curriculum vitae, itemizing as much as 5 consultant outputs (most 4 pages). The influence of every output for the MEWE discipline ought to be defined in max. 3-5 strains per output. The analysis adheres to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
• A write-up highlighting the nominee’s accomplishments on the subject of the above standards and his/her future ambitions within the discipline of MEWE (most 2 pages).
• Two help letters from exterior referees consisting of 1 nationwide/regional referee and one worldwide referee, of which one have to be IWA member (most 1 web page per letter).
• The contact particulars of a 3rd unbiased referee (title, affiliation, electronic mail, and telephone) who can testify from the influence of the nominee’s contribution, and who may be contacted by the award committee.

Click here to nominate

For extra data, go to IWA MEWE Mid-Career Award.