The Lundbeck Foundation Scientific Enrichment Prize

Background

Diversity, for the Lundbeck Foundation, is in its broadest sense and includes, but is not limited to, methods, ways of working, technology, field of research, gender, and background.

The Lundbeck Foundation’s ambition is to make Denmark leading in neuroscience research by funding relevant biomedical, health, clinical and other sciences in Denmark. The goal is to foster world-class research at Danish universities and Danish university hospitals. To solve complex problems, now and in the future, a range of different competencies and perspectives are needed.

The prize

The prize is a personal prize of DKK 100,000 and is awarded once annually.

Who can nominate?

Nominations are open for anyone.
Self-nomination is not accepted.   

Who can be nominated?

Individuals who have taken leadership to embrace and harness diversity to develop creative solutions to complex scientific problems and to enrich scientific environments and culture in the biomedical, health and clinical fields the biomedical, health and clinical field.

The nominee must have achieved results in relation to diversity in their research and research group, institute, centre or faculty.

The recipient of the award must be employed at a Danish research institution at the time the award is given.

See previous winners of The Scientific Enrichment Prize here.

How to nominate?

The nomination should include:

• A statement describing the nominee’s initiatives and achievements in promoting scientific Enrichment. Also see evaluation criteria below (max. 5,000 characters)
• A brief CV of the nominee (max. 5,000 characters)

You must submit the nomination, written in Danish or English, via the Lundbeck Foundation’s nomination and application system (LANAS).

Please note that the Foundation will not consider or assess any nomination material which is not submitted via the LANAS system before the deadline.

Evaluation criteria

• The nominee’s systematic approach to, and proactivity in, initiatives related to diversity both in their research and in their work environment

• Diversity in the nominee’s own research activities- how bringing together and using different methods, areas, disciplines, etc. has heightened the nominee’s research results

• Diversity and inclusion in the organization of the nominee’s team itself- competencies, education, culture, nationality, age, gender, etc.

• Activities outside the nominee’s “own” area- participation in and organization of events/ initiatives reaching beyond the nominee’s immediate workplace

Evaluation process

All nominations are scanned for eligibility by the Foundation’s Grants & Prizes Department.

It is the LF Scientific Enrichment Prize Panel who will review and score the nominations.

Prior to the involvement of the panel, the panel members are initially presented with a list of nominees allowing them to declare conflicts of interest, if any. Each nomination is reviewed by all panel members. The panel will make a recommendation to the Board of Directors who takes the final decision.

Nomination deadline 2024

Nominations must be submitted in LANAS before 13:00 CET February 8, 2024.

Note that submitted nominations will be kept in the running for three years.

You are welcome to contact Senior Scientific Programme Manager Anette Høye (ah@lundbeckfonden.com) if you have any questions regarding your nomination or the nomination procedure.

The purpose of the Lundbeck Foundation is to create powerful ripple effects that bring discoveries to lives through investing actively in business and science at the frontiers of their fields.