Science for Africa Foundation Africa Science Journalism Awards 2025 for African Journalists. – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: 4 July 2025, 1700HRS, East African Time (EAT) 

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Africa Science Journalism Awards. The Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation) is happy to launch the second version of the Africa Science Journalism Awards (ASJA). These prestigious awards have fun excellence in well being, science, and growth reporting throughout Africa. By recognising and rewarding distinctive journalism, ASJA goals to amplify the visibility and affect of science protection on the continent. This initiative, supported by the Gates Foundation, displays the SFA Foundation’s dedication to advancing science communication in Africa, with extra assist from the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ).  

Selected winners could have the distinctive alternative to spend three days to per week at a companion educational or analysis establishment, both inside their nation or regionally, to achieve deeper insights into a selected scientific topic of curiosity by way of direct engagement with scientists. 

Eligibility Criteria 

• Submissions will need to have been printed between January 2024 and June thirtieth, 2025 
• Open to journalists who’re residents or everlasting residents of an African nation, and who’re completely or primarily resident in Africa, working in native or worldwide print, broadcast, or on-line media. Submissions could also be printed by both native or worldwide shops, offered the reporting is rooted within the African context. 
• Entries should give attention to well being, local weather and surroundings, or agriculture, as outlined by the SFA Foundation’s thematic areas. 
• Editors making use of for the Editor’s Award should symbolize publications primarily based solely in Africa. 

Entry Categories and Prizes   

• Best Story – Print and Broadcast 
  This class honours two seasoned journalists, one in print and one in broadcast, whose in-depth and compelling science reporting has considerably formed public understanding of key points resembling well being, local weather change and surroundings, and agriculture. A seasoned journalist is outlined as one with 5 or extra years {of professional} expertise in journalism and a confirmed monitor document of reporting on science-related subjects. Each winner on this class will obtain $1,500. 

• Early Career Journalist – Print or Broadcast 
  This class recognises two promising journalists, one in print and one in broadcast, who’re within the early phases of their careers and present distinctive potential in science reporting. An early profession journalist is outlined as one with lower than 5 years {of professional} expertise in journalism. Each winner on this class will obtain $1,500. 
• Innovator Award for Editors  
  This award acknowledges two editors who’ve championed science journalism inside their newsrooms by encouraging and increasing protection of science-related tales. Each winner will obtain $2,000.  
• Science Champion: Recognises a scientist or innovator who has successfully utilised on-line and conventional platforms to raise the visibility of their work and promote science throughout the continent. The prize for this class is $1,500. 

Winners is not going to solely obtain financial prizes but additionally plaques, which will likely be introduced on the World Conference of Science Journalists being held in Africa for the primary time, in December 2025. A pitch price may also be offered, for any tales printed on account of this engagement. 

Submission Guidelines 

Applicants are required to submit their entries as follows: 

• Best News Story: 1 story 
• Early Career Journalist: 1 story 
• Editor’s Award: List of tales printed throughout the acknowledged interval that reveals dedication to science journalism  
• Science Champion: 1 story 

Important Notes 

• All classes are open to entries from print, broadcast, and on-line media.  
• Submissions should align with the SFA Foundation’s thematic areas of well being, local weather and surroundings, and agriculture. 
• Applicants might submit just one entry within the journalist classes (both Best Story or Early Career Journalist), not each. This distinction ensures a transparent separation between seasoned and early-career journalists. 
• Applicants within the journalist class can also submit a separate entry for the Editor’s Award class in the event that they meet the eligibility standards. 
• Each applicant might submit one entry per class within the Editor’s Award and Science Champion classes. 
• All entries have to be submitted by way of the Agaseke grants Management System (Agaseke GMS). 

For More Information:

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