20 June 2024

Are you a doctoral researcher at an Una Europa partner university? Is your research related to Future Materials? Do you want to share the impact of your research with others?

Then enter the Una Europa PhD Impact Award competition!

More about Una Europa and this Impact Award

Una Europa is an alliance of 11 leading research universities, including Leiden University.

The PhD Impact Award invites doctoral researchers to reflect on their research practice, and to consider how it impacts on society and contributes to the world.

For this competition, the research should have a connection to Future Materials, as understood in the context of Una Europa. Future Materials encompasses any material anticipated or expected to be developed or to become prominent in the future. Such materials possess advanced or novel properties, are more sustainable, or offer advantages over currently available materials in specific applications.

Doctoral researchers from the following fields may be working on an area related to Future Materials:

• Materials Science
• Engineering
• Sustainability
• Energy
• Physics
• Data Science
• Chemistry.

Entries are accepted from all disciplines and are not limited to this list.

Applicants must enter during their PhD, up until the time of their PhD defence. The deadline for entries is midnight on 15 September 2024.

What is the prize?

The winners of the Una Europa PhD Impact Award will be invited to participate in a storytelling workshop (online) and to join the Una Europa Gathering in Bologna, Italy (27–29 November 2024), where they can showcase their research to the Una Europa community and meet with other researchers from the field of Future Materials. Travel and accommodation support will be provided to go to Bologna.

In addition, the winning entries will be published on the Una Europa website.

To enter, or for more information, please see the Una Europa website.