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Programme Description
The Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (GH EDCTP3) builds on the first and second European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership programmes. This new joint undertaking (JU) is a partnership between the EU and the EDCTP Association, whose members are several European and African countries. The partnership will deliver new solutions for reducing the burden of infectious diseases in SSA and strengthen research capacities to prepare and respond to re-emerging infectious diseases in this region and across the world.
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Summary
The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic is focused on the Outstanding Research Team Prize.
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.
Detailed Call Description
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.
EDCTP3 Prizes 2025 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.
Award criteria: This prize is awarded to the entry that best addresses 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:
- The contestant team should have achieved the goal of taking on Global Health EDCTP3 programme priority issues in poverty-related diseases (20 points).
- The contestant team should have been actively involved in research, capacity development and networking in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe with outstanding achievements and scientific and policy impact in the fields of HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis or malaria or neglected infectious diseases (30 points).
- Impact: The contestant team should have built effective and equitable South-North partnerships to answer the priority research questions and produced health-policy relevant deliverables, such as research data implemented into policy and practice, high impact publications and significant capacity building outputs at local research sites (50 points).
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Thematic Categories
- Health
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, all applicants of a research team must:
- be a natural person or a legal person;
- be established (residing) in a SSA country that is a member of the EDCTP Association or the EU or a country associated to Horizon Europe.
Note: the application for this contest must be submitted by a lead applicant on behalf of the team members.
Applicant consortium: Because of the objective of the prize to support scientific collaborations, contestants must be or have been a team (either a team in one organisation or a team with members across different organisations).
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EU Contact Point
For individual questions on the Portal Submission System, please contact the IT Helpdesk.
Non-IT related questions should be sent to the following email address: applicants@global-health-edctp3.europa.eu
Please indicate clearly the reference of the call and topic to which your question relates.