Deadline: 20-Apr-23
Nominations are now open for the Global Energy Prize, an award for outstanding achievements in scientific and technical R&D in the field of energy.
Fostering development of sciences, the Global Energy Prize emphasiыes the importance of international cooperation and the weight of involvement of public and private entities in efforts to ensure energy security and energy conservation on a global scale.
According to IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, the Global Energy Prize ranks among the top 99 most prestigious and influential international awards.
Goals
The goals of the Prize are as follows:
- Promotion of theoretical, experimental and applied research in the field of energy, and stimulation of international cooperation in this area.
- Encouragement and engagement of key experts from various countries, international organizations, public and commercial structures, in order to solve the most significant problems and tasks in the energy sector.
Categories
Nomination submissions of the following categories are accepted for consideration:
- Electric power engineering;
- Exploration, extraction, transportation and processing of fuel and power resources;
- Renewable energy sources;
- Bioenergy;
- Fuel cells and hydrogen energy;
- Heat power engineering;
- Nuclear power engineering;
- New materials used in energy;
- Energy efficiency;
- Efficient energy storage;
- Energy transportation;
- Management in energy sector.
- The nomination submissions of the categories are further distributed into three nominations:
- Traditional energy:
- Electric power engineering;
- Exploration, extraction, transportation and processing of fuel and power resources;
- Heat power engineering;
- Nuclear power engineering.
- Non-traditional energy:
- Renewable energy sources
- Bioenergy;
- Fuel cells and hydrogen energy.
- New ways of energy application:
- New materials used in power engineering;
- Energy efficiency;
- Efficient power storage;
- Energy transportation.
- Traditional energy:
Nomination Procedure
- Citizen of any state can become a laureate of the Prize.
- Candidates for the Prize can be nominated by the Nominators. These are:
- Scientists and/or organizations acting via their representatives who have been verified on the Organizer’s website and received confirmation of their nominating status, as well as persons specially invited by the Organizer to the nomination pool.
- Laureates of the Global Energy Prize, Nobel Prize winners, laureates of the Kyoto, Max Planck, Wolf, Balzan, Zayed Future Energy, Energy Globe, Goldman Environment and UNEP Sasakawa Prizes.
- Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of foreign academies of sciences.
- The nomination submissions are accepted annually according to the schedule established by the Organizer and published on www.globalenergyprize.org website. Submissions are accepted for 110 days.
- Persons performing solely administrative and/or organizational functions cannot be nominated.
- Self-nomination for the Prize is not allowed.
- The nominator can file up to three nomination submissions in the course of one nomination process. An individual nomination submission is required for each nominee.
- The nomination process is strictly confidential. No preliminary public discussion of the nomination process or its stages is allowed. Nominators and other participants of the process shall not disclose the nominations submitted.
For more information, visit Global Energy Prize.