Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award

2026 Eligibility

• Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the ERCIM countries: Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and The Netherlands.
• Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 30 April 2023.
• The nominee must have performed their research for at least one year in an institution located in one of the countries listed above.
• A person can only be nominated once for the Cor Baayen Award.

The Cor Baayen Award is an early career researcher prize. ERCIM recognises a wide range of academic contributions and follows responsible evaluation criteria for research.

2026 nomination procedure

For the 2026 Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award, nominations were submitted according to the following procedure. These conditions applied to the 2026 award and may be updated for 2027.

• Nominations must be submitted by a staff member of an ERCIM member institute. Self-nominations are not permitted.
• Each ERCIM member institute may submit up to two nominations for final evaluation. If more than two candidates are nominated internally, the institute is responsible for selecting the two nominees to be submitted to ERCIM.
• Nominations must be submitted using the Cor Baayen Award Nomination Form, which will be made available on this page when the call opens.
• Each nomination must include:
  • a URL to the candidate’s full-text PhD thesis, and
  • URLs to the full texts of the candidate’s best papers or other major scientific achievements (up to a maximum of three).

Information about the 2027 call will be published here when available.

Selection process

The selection of the Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award winner is the responsibility of the ERCIM Human Capital Task Group. To support its decision, the Task Group may seek expert opinions and typically appoints a selection committee composed of senior representatives from ERCIM member institutes.

Prize

The Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award is an internationally recognised distinction. The award carries a €5,000 prize, and the winner is usually invited to present their work at the ERCIM Fall Meetings, providing an opportunity to engage with the ERCIM research community and senior representatives from member institutes.