Call for applications: French-German Prize for scientific collaboration Forcheur Jean-Marie Lehn 2023

The Department for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in Germany is granting an award for a French-German cooperation between two young scientists in the following fields: chemistry, health, pharmacology. The award is granted under the patronage of Pr Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with the French-German University as well as BASF France and Sanofi Germany.

ELIGIBILITY 

To be eligible to the Prize “Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn”, you need to fulfil the criteria below:

• Have one member of the pair employed by a French institution, the other by a German institution;
• Be part of a research laboratory in France and in Germany, attached to :

- to a higher education institution

- a research organization

- to a company;

- a support structure (competitiveness cluster, cluster).

• Be under 45 years old;
• Be currently collaborating on a joint research project;
• Conduct research in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology or at the interface between chemistry and health.

Application process

It is mandatory for applicants to submit jointly their proposal in French, German or English before Wednesday, April 10, 2023 to the following address, in pdf format:

attache-science.berlin-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Award

Each part of the French-German tandem will be granted a prize of 10,000 €. The Award ceremony will be hosted in the French Embassy on June 19, 2023 by the Ambassador of France in Germany, François Delattre, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Pr. Jean-Marie Lehn, the President of the Franco-German University, and the partners of the Prize Sanofi Deutschland and BASF France. 

The presence of the two awardees at the Ceremony is required.

Consult the call for applications on the website of the French Embassy in Germany (en français ou en allemand)