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    • Nomination 2023
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    • The award ceremony 2023
    • The award ceremony 2022
    • The award ceremony 2021
    • The award ceremony 2020
    • The award ceremony 2019
    • The award ceremony 2018
    • The award ceremonies of the past
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Nomination and selection / Nomination 2022

Nomination 2022

Every year since 1920, the Marcel Benoist Foundation has awarded its eponymous Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist. This year, the CHF 250,000 will be awarded for work in the natural sciences. Nominations could be submitted from 1 February to 15 March 2022

The Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist is Switzerland’s most important research prize. It honours scientists whose work is of relevance to all aspects of human life and society. The research must be of excellent quality, as well as being original, innovative and topical. Eleven winners of the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, the most recent being Professor Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva in 2019.

After the Marcel Benoist prize was awarded in the fields of the humanities and social sciences in 2021, nominations could be submitted in 2022 for outstanding research achievements in mathematics, natural and engineering sciences. Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, Chairman of the Marcel Benoist Foundation, sees great possibilities in the natural sciences for tackling current and future challenges. “In the field of sustainable development, research must also contribute to the UN’s 2030 Agenda. The natural sciences have an important role to play. I look forward to receiving many compelling nominations. We have high-profile scientists in Switzerland who deserve this award!”

Once again this year, a joint awards ceremony of the Benoist and Latsis foundations will be held for the prizewinners of the Swiss Science Prizes Marcel Benoist and Latsis. The awards ceremony will be held on 3 November 2022 in Bern. The prizewinners will be presented to the public in September.

Nomination until 15 March 2022

The Marcel Benoist Foundation has given the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) the task, with the support of the Confederation, of evaluating the nominees and selecting the winner for the attention of the Board of Trustees. Researchers and representatives of institutions of higher education, research institutions and other public or private institutions can nominate researchers who are resident in Switzerland and work at least 50% at a Swiss research institution. The majority of the relevant research work must have been carried out in Switzerland. You will find more information on the required nomination criteria and conditions here.

Contact / Enquiries: Dr Aurélia Robert-Tissot, Foundation Secretary, Tel. 058 484 49 41, aurelia.robert-tissot@sbfi.admin.ch

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Marcel Benoist Foundation
State Secretariat for Education,
Research and Innovation SERI
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH – 3003 Bern

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