Limited Submission Opportunity: Dan David Foundation: Dan David Prize
Call for Nominations: Dan David Foundation: Dan David Prize
URL: https://www.dandavidprize.org/prize/prize-nominations
OBJECTIVES:
The Dan David Prize is an international award, endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University.
The Dan David Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy, and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world.
The Dan David Prize covers three time dimensions – Past, Present and Future – that represent realms of human achievement. Each year the International Board chooses one field within each time dimension. Following a review process of individuals nominated for the Prize, by independent Review Committees comprised of renowned scholars and professionals, the International Board then chooses the laureates for each field.
The Past refers to fields that expand knowledge of former times.
The Present recognizes achievements that shape and enrich society today.
The Future focuses on breakthroughs that hold great promise for improvement of our world.
The selected fields for this year’s prizes are:
- Past: History of Health and Medicine
- Present: Public Health
- Future: Molecular Medicine
Three prizes of one million US dollars each are granted annually in the fields chosen for the three time dimensions. The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service, and business, that have made and continue to make an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit, without discrimination of gender, race, religion, nationality, or political affiliation.
The Dan David Prize laureates donate 10% of their prize money to postgraduate students in their respective fields, thereby contributing to the community and advancing a new generation of scholars. It is also unique in its outreach efforts in the wider community.
FUNDING INFORMATION: $1,000,000
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
Self-nominations are not allowed
The individual or institution being nominated has made a singular achievement or a series of achievements and continues to make a unique, profound contribution to humanity, on a global scale, in one of the selected fields for the year in which the nomination is being made.
There is not an institutional limit on this opportunity. The Office of Foundation Relations (ofr@bu.edu) and the Office of Research (research@bu.edu) can provide assistance with the nomination process if needed.
DEADLINES:
Sponsor Nomination Deadline: Saturday, November 30, 2020