Dear Colleagues,
This letter invites all EFPA Members (Full Members, and Associate Members) to make nominations for the EFPA awards for the 2025 round.
Process for granting awards
The process aims to place robustness and transparency at the heart of all EFPA does in offering and evaluating nominations for awards, in the interests of awarding innovation and excellence while promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in psychological research, practice, and allied work. It also aims to achieve efficiencies for all parties involved.
The document ‘Process for granting awards – September 2023’ can be found here.
Awards purpose and criteria
Each award has its own specific profile. This profile is described in the fact sheet for the respective award, together with clear criteria applicable to the different fields of psychology and an equality statement about openness to all who meet the criteria. Information about EFPA’s portfolio of awards is available at https://www.efpa.eu/activities/awards.
Purpose: The Aristotle Prize is awarded to an individual psychologist or team recognised internationally as having made a substantial and original contribution to psychology as a science or a profession.
The link between the Aristotle Prize and the EFPA European Congress of Psychology means the prize will be awarded in an area of work that reflects the particular Congress theme in the relevant year.
Purpose: The Comenius award is designed to recognise a psychologist whose academic and teaching career in psychology is developing, including quality of academic contribution and excellence in teaching and learning, and who is within 10 years of the completion of their PhD or equivalent
Purpose: The Robert Roe Memorial Award is focused on European psychology and making a difference to society.
The award recognises psychologists whose work contributes towards making a better society by demonstrating the relevance of psychological knowledge and achieving impact in society, communicating psychological science for societal benefit, or using psychological science for public policy influencing.
Making nominations
Please consider making nominations for this round. EFPA would like to encourage a wide field of applications, and for a diverse group of people from across psychology to have the opportunity and feel encouraged and welcome to come forward.
Please therefore particularly consider those within the profession in your association who may not normally consider such award schemes are for them, to come forward for these awards.
The awards are open to all who meet the criteria, inclusive of all personal characteristics and from across European countries.
Please encourage those nominating to have this in the forefront of their minds when putting colleagues forward. We will welcome multiple applications for each award from one Member if you have more than one suitable candidate.
The nomination should comprise:
- A statement (not to exceed 1,000 words) from the Member (or other nominating institution) addressing how the nominee has met the criteria for the award, signed by the President, CEO or other appointed officer.
- Supporting documentation which may include:
- Curriculum Vitae not exceeding 4 pages in length
- 2 letters of recommendation
- a list of publications and presentations at national, European and international conferences.
- A statement confirming the individual making the nomination has no conflict of interest (e.g. close personal relationship). If there is found to be a conflict of interest that has not been declared, the nomination will be set aside.
- Confirmation in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that the nominee is informed of the fact that their personal data will be shared with EFPA and that consent has been obtained to share their personal data with EFPA for the purposes of processing and evaluation of the nomination, and publication in the event the award is made.
Where the work is carried out by the individual nominee as part of a team, except in the case of the nomination of a team to receive the award, nominations should make it clear what the individual contributed and how this differed from others.
Submission and deadline
The nomination must be made online using the following form https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GKRJZ8V, including to submit the supporting documents. Supporting documents should be in pdf format and any picture or logo should be in jpg format.
Please circulate this call widely within your networks for example in your newsletters so your members have the opportunity to see it and put themselves or colleagues forward for you to make the nomination. As noted above we will welcome multiple applications for each award from one Member if you have more than one suitable candidate. EFPA is pleased for Members to encourage institutions such as universities or professional employers to prepare the nomination materials for submission.
Any queries can be addressed in the first instance to the Head Office (headoffice@efpa.eu).
Please submit the nomination forms not later than the closing date of 28 February 2025, 09:00 am CET.
