The 2025 competition for young scientists' awards of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is announced
The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus announces a competition for the nomination of the title of:
prizes named after Academician Zh. Alferov for young scientists of the NAS of Belarus (a total of 2 prizes are awarded in physics, mathematics, computer science, physical and technical sciences and engineering sciences);
prizes named after Academician V. Kuprevich for young scientists of the NAS of Belarus (a total of 4 prizes are awarded in biology, chemistry and earth sciences, medicine and agricultural sciences);
prize named after Academician V. Ignatovsky for young scientists of the NAS of Belarus (a total of 2 prizes are awarded in humanities and social sciences).
Prizes are awarded for individual scientific work or for a set of works united by a single topic.
Applicants for the awards may be young scientists (individuals or groups of authors consisting of no more than 3 people) under 35 as of January 1, 2025 (starting from and including those born in 1990), working in organizations of the NAS of Belarus at their main place of work, who have published the results of their research over the past 5 years (2021 - 2025).
The right to nominate works for awards is granted to scientists (scientific and technical) councils of organizations of the NAS of Belarus.
When nominating candidates for the young scientists prize, a single copy of the following documents must be submitted:
cover letter from an organization nominating a work for an award;
an extract from the minutes of a meeting of the scientific (scientific and technical) council of an organization with a justification of the significance of the results of the proposed work for science and practice;
work nominated for the award: a separate scientific work (a monograph, an article) or thematically related monographs, other book publications, copies of articles, patents, materials confirming the practical development of the results of the work, collectively reflecting the solution of a scientific and/or practical problem;
an abstract of the work of approximately three pages of text, signed by the author(s), including the following information: the title of the; full name, academic degree, title, position and place of work of each member of the authors' team; statement of the problem and its relevance, solutions, results obtained;
a brief summary of the work in Belarusian, no more than one page in length, indicating the title of the work, full names, academic degrees, titles and place of work of the members of the authors' team (for works written in Russian);
a brief statement of the research results (no more than 450 characters);
information about the author(s) – Curriculum vitae;
a certified list of publications included in the work and lists of works published by each author;
information of personal contribution of each member of the author's team, signed by all co-authors of the work.
The sets of documents of applicants with the inscription "For the _______________ prize for young scientists 2025" in one copy are submitted before October 1, 2025 to the directorate of prizes, scholarships and awards of the main directorate of personnel and personnel policy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus at: 220072, Minsk, Independence Av., 66, office 317, 406.
Along with the nomination materials, information about the work, filled out according to the attached form, is submitted. An electronic version of the information about the work and application materials of the award applicants is sent by e-mail to: alla@presidium.bas-net.by.
Information phone: (017) 275-24-56; (017) 358-28-26.
The Regulation on Prizes for Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus can be found at the link.
