ECNP Excellence Award

ECNP Excellence AwardThe ECNP Excellence Award was established to encourage Early Career Scientists (ECS) resident in Europe and/or residents of a European Country with a Developing Country (CDE) to present a poster during the annual ECNP Congress.  

Winners 2024
Meet the 2024 Excellence Award winners here.

The award winners are honoured with:

  • An unrestricted prize of EUR 100
  • Travel and accommodation reimbursement up to EUR 500 (EUR 600 for CDE* country residents) if they travel to the congress location
  • A commemorative certificate

ECNP Excellence AwardWho is eligible?
Candidates have to:

  • Submit an abstract for poster presentation for the upcoming Congress; submitted abstract must be accepted for publication and be presented during the Congress by the candidate
  • Be Early Career Scientists (view criteria) or residents of a European Country with a Developing Economy (CDE)*.
    *CDE-countries within Europe are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine.

How to apply
You do not need to apply for this award. If you submit an abstract for the 37th ECNP Congress, 21-24 September 2024, Milan, Italy, and matched the criteria mentioned above, you will automatically be applying for the ECNP Excellence Award. 

ECNP Excellence Award 2019-Early Career Scientists

Selection of the awardees
The most excellent work by Early Career Scientists and scientists from CDE residing in Europe are awarded the ECNP Excellence Award. The abstracts submitted for poster presentation are judged by a scientific review committee.

The outcome of the review including the selection of the 2024 ECNP Excellence Awards was communicated before 15 July 2024.

Award ceremony
The award winners was presented during the 37th ECNP Congress 2024.

Previous winners
View here previous ECNP Excellence Award winners.