HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2026-Scientific Leadership Man SSA Prize

About this call

Objective:

1. Background

The EDCTP Prizes 2026-2027 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest. A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Applications will have to clearly state the involvement of the applicants in the research and innovation activities within the remit of the Global Health EDCTP3 programme. Applicants will have to provide proof of eligibility and a written presentation of the achievements, which will be presented to an independent panel of experts for evaluation.

The amounts of the prizes are specified in section 3. They are not linked to the costs incurred by the winner.

2. EDCTP3 Prizes 2026 and related award criteria

The prizes will be awarded to the entry that, in the opinion of the independent expert jury, demonstrates having best addressed the cumulative criteria specified under the respective descriptions below.

Applications will be graded on a total of 100 points. Where relevant, the number of points for each award criterion is indicated below.

Scientific Leadership Prize (four prizes)

These prizes will be awarded to four different profiles and aim to recognise growing mid-career scientists:

- Two Scientific Leadership Prizes (one woman and one man) for researchers who are permanent residents of an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe programme;

- Two Scientific Leadership Prizes (one woman and one man) for researchers who are permanent residents of a sub-Saharan African country which is a constituent state of the EDCTP Association.

Award criteria

These prizes are awarded to the entries that best address the following cumulative criteria based on their application, that should also include a letter of support from other member(s) of the research community:

Scientific contribution and excellence: Contestants should have made significant achievements in their field and will continue to be leaders in their research field (50 points).

Impact: Contestants should have made major contributions to the objectives of the Global Health EDCTP3 programme to strengthen research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa and to support South-South and North-South networking (50 points).

3. Available budget

The prizes budget is:

Four Scientific Leadership prizes: EUR 15,000 each.

4. Timetable and deadlines

As indicated in the Funding & Tenders Portal. Additional information on the Global Health EDCTP3 site

5. Admissibility and documents

Applications must be submitted before the contest deadline .

Applications must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Applications (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System ( NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).

Applications must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:

Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the applicant (to be filled in directly online)

Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the application (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)

mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded) : letter(s) of support from a reputable scientist and short CV of the person providing the letter.