Nominations, rules, and procedures

Submitting nominations

The Executive Board invites the faculty boards to nominate knowledge utilization projects for the Ben Feringa Impact Awards before December 15, 2024. Each faculty is asked to submit a project for both the “students” and the “researchers” categories.

All submissions go through the faculty boards. Do you know a researcher or student who excels in knowledge utilization and who could be nominated for the Ben Feringa Impact Award? 

Please contact a member of the board of your faculty, the board secretary or one of the impact officers affiliated with your faculty.

Faculties can submit their nominations by sending the nomination form below in 1 PDF to bfimpactaward rug.nl.

Eligible for nomination are:

• Researchers and students that have not previously won a Ben Feringa Impact Award. 
• Researchers employed by the UG (with a p number and at least an on-call contract) who have not yet reached retirement age at the time of the closing date for nominations.
• Students who were enrolled in one of the degree programmes of the UG in the academic year prior to the closing date of 15 December 2024.

Important documents

A nomination comprises:

• The designated nomination form (for students or researchers);
• A concise curriculum vitae (no more than 1 page) for each nominee;
• A summary of the project;
• Additional documentation that shows the achieved impact (e.g. scientific publications, reference letters from stakeholders, or appendices that illustrate the achieved impact);
• For students: a thesis report or report of the research project/internship on the basis of which impact was generated.
• For researchers: a short paragraph explaining how the prize money of € 5000,- will be used for further knowledge utilization.

Nomination forms