TWAS-Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Award 2026 ($4,000 award) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Applications are open for the TWAS-Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Award 2026. This annual award, named after the TWAS Fellow Samira Omar, acknowledges the numerous influence on the atmosphere and biodiversity of scientists from least developed nations.

Our planet, and due to this fact our existence, faces a number of challenges: world inhabitants, meals safety, local weather change, biodiversity loss, water shortage/poor sanitation, vitality sources. Sustainability entails contemplating the connection between the finite sources of the planet and the lifestyle adopted by people: in what approach can our existence be maintained and at what stage?

Sustainability is on the forefront of many discussions on the worldwide scene. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals launched by the UN in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda underlie that we should turn out to be conscious of the truth that we’re compromising the way forward for generations to come back. The SDGs might effectively characterize one of the best try at addressing sustainability points at a worldwide scale.

The “Innovation for Sustainability” Award will reward scientists for their contribution in an space, albeit multidisciplinary, immediately related to the science of sustainability.

Award

• A financial award of $4,000 is generously offered by Professor Omar.

Eligibility

• The 2026 award will likely be awarded to a girl scientist nationwide of a Least Developing Country (LDC), residing and dealing in a LDC over the last two years instantly previous to his/her nomination, primarily based on scientific achievements in any of the thematic areas under:
  • Clean and renewable vitality
  • Green chemistry
  • Sustainable agriculture and agrobiodiversity
  • Plastic: degradation, air pollution and microplastics
  • Water purification and sanitation
  • Climate change: environmental results, methane contribution, carbon seize
  • Transportation applied sciences: effectivity for sensible cities
  • Waste administration
  • Biodiversity: the sixth mass extinction, ecosystem companies, habitat restoration and restoration
  • Ecological economics and planetary well being
• Self nominations and nominations from jury members is not going to be thought-about.
• Fellows of TWAS usually are not eligible. Individuals who’ve beforehand received a TWAS-named Award usually are not eligible to be nominated for Awards named after a distinct TWAS Fellow. 
• The identical nominee can’t be nominated for multiple ‘Fellows of TWAS Awards’ in a given 12 months. The secretariat retains the correct to carry to the eye of the related nominators that the nomination could also be appropriate for one other award, and the ultimate choice whether or not or to not shift the nomination will likely be taken by the nominators themselves.

Nomination

A nomination is taken into account full provided that consists of the entire following data/materials:

• Nominator contact particulars;
• Nominee contact particulars (self nominations are not accepted) and normal data on the nominee;
• Authorization from the nominee (i.e. the candidate) to course of private knowledge for the needs of the nomination, in conformity to Art. 13 of the Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003. This authorization can solely be submitted via the web platform. The privateness authorization kind is accessible for obtain within the part ‘nominee’s private knowledge’. The kind have to be crammed in and signed by the candidate after which uploaded onto the on-line platform;
• Suggested quotation (15-20 phrases highlighting the nominee’s scientific achievements);
• Supporting assertion concerning the nominee’s contribution. Supporting statements ought to clarify intimately the work carried out by the candidate and its significance within the related scientific context. Clear reference needs to be made to the scientific influence of the nominee’s work. Vague supporting statements is not going to be thought-about and can negatively have an effect on the analysis (max 10,000 characters);
• Forward-looking undertaking outlining the candidate deliberate future actions (max 10,000 characters);
• Clear and detailed account of any time spent overseas by the nominee previously two years;
• PhD: data on topic space, 12 months and awarding establishment;
• Brief data on membership in academies and societies;
• Brief data on awards and honours obtained;
• List of 10 most vital publications listed in an internationally acceptable format;
• The nominee’s transient CV;
• The nominee’s full listing of publications are additionally to be uploaded, individually, onto the web platform;
• The nominee’s h-index in Google Scholar, and the related variety of citations.

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