Honouring scientific achievement

The Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize
TWAS and illycaffè, in collaboration with the Municipality of Trieste and the Fondazione Internazionale per il progresso e la libertà delle scienze, have established the Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize. Deadline: 15 May.

TWAS Prizes
Each year the Academy awards eight prizes of US$15,000 each to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least ten years. The Prizes are given in the following eight fields of science: agricultural sciences, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering sciences, mathematics, medical sciences and physics. Deadline: 31 March.

The TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists
The Prize will recognize young scientists in Africa whose research in computer science promises to have a positive impact in the developing world. Each year, three winners are selected from different countries on the continent. Each recipient receives a Euro 7,000 cash award contributed by Microsoft. Deadline: 31 July.

TWAS Prizes to Young Scientists in Developing Countries
The Academy invites national science academies, scientific research councils, ministries of science and technology and high-level research organizations in the South to institute a scheme of TWAS prizes for young scientists in their countries. Important: The programme is directed at organizations, not individual scientists. Deadline: none.

TWAS Medal Lectures
Every year, the Academy honours three TWAS Members for their achievements in their fields of research. The recipients lecture on a main aspect of their work, and are presented with a plaque.

The Abdus Salam Medal for Science and Technology
The medal was instituted to honour the Academy's founder and first president, Professor Abdus Salam. It is awarded to highly distinguished personalities who have served the cause of science in the Third World.

The C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research
The prize, named after TWAS Founding Fellow and former president, CNR Rao, carries a cash award of US$5,000 and is usually presented every three years. It is designed to honour distinguished scientists from the developing world, especially scientists from the world's scientifically and technologically lagging countries, who have made significant contributions to global science.