Call for Nominations: African Planet Prize 2025 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 10, 2025

Nominations are open for the African Planet Prize 2025. The Frontiers Planet Prize (FPP) goals to acknowledge transformative scientific contributions that supply options to the planet’s most urgent challenges, together with local weather change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution. In partnership with the Frontiers Research Foundation (FRF), the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) has initiated a continent-huge implementation technique to improve African participation on this prestigious world prize.

While African scientists are actively engaged in planetary well being analysis, structural obstacles, equivalent to low visibility, institutional disconnects, and restricted entry to world platforms, have constrained their illustration in worldwide recognition mechanisms just like the FPP. This initiative seeks to bridge that hole by constructing a scalable, supportive engagement framework, guaranteeing African establishments and researchers are outfitted to contribute and compete successfully.

Benefits

• USD $5,000 in profession improvement assist
• Invitation to the Frontiers Planet Prize Ceremony in Switzerland
• Global publicity and visibility for analysis
• Access to a mentorship community of world specialists

Eligibility

• Lead applicant have to be an African early-profession researcher (≤7 years publish-PhD, with attainable marginal extensions for profession breaks).
• Must have at the least one peer-reviewed publication in a excessive impression issue journal (IF >4) that’s instantly related to planetary boundaries and sustainability challenges.
• The African researcher have to be affiliated to an African establishment (establishment of upper studying, analysis establishment or college) implementing any of the planetary boundaries.
• Submission (nomination) have to be supported by a recognised institutional domiciled within the African continent (college, analysis establishment or equal).

Selection Criteria

The choice standards of each the candidate and the analysis will deal with the next:

• Scientific Excellence (40%)
  • Novelty and originality of the analysis.
  • Rigor of methodology and high quality of knowledge.
  • Translational (bench-to-bedside) analysis related to the planetary boundaries.
  • Contribution to advancing information in planetary well being and sustainability.
• Societal Relevance (30%)
  • The awarded Research will need to have been domiciled in an African college or analysis establishment.
  • Potential of the analysis to tackle pressing planetary challenges.
  • Applicability and relevance of findings to the African contexts
  • Implementation analysis that contributes to SDGs.
  • Demonstrated outreach or stakeholder engagement
• Impact and Visibility (20%)
  • Evidence of affect on coverage, observe, or innovation.
  • Research product Cite rating of >100
  • Policy point out: proof of labor cited or referenced in authorities coverage paperwork displaying its impression on public discourse and choice-making.
• Capacity Building and Leadership (10%)
  • Role of the researcher in fostering collaboration
  • Role of the researcher in mentorship of upcoming researchers’ mentorship.
  • Contribution to strengthening African analysis ecosystems in Africa.

Application

Click here to nominate

For extra info, go to African Planet Prize.