Prizes & Funding

Distinguished Fellowship

Once in a while, the ESEB mem­ber­ship will con­fer dis­tin­guished fel­low­ships to mem­bers for their out­stand­ing ser­vice to the soci­ety and/or their excep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion to the mis­sion of ESEB.
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Conference Travel Award

ESEB offers travel sti­pends to attend the bien­ni­al ESEB con­gress or the annu­al Evol­u­tion meet­ing of the Soci­ety for the Study of Evol­u­tion.
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Joint Congress Travel Award

ESEB offers travel sti­pends for young research­ers pro­fes­sion­ally based in Europe to attend the 3^rd Joint Con­gress on Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy in Montreal 2024.
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Equal Opportunities Initiative

This ini­ti­at­ive aims at pro­mot­ing gender equal­ity and, more gen­er­ally, equal oppor­tun­it­ies with­in the soci­ety and also in the evol­u­tion­ary research field.
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Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative

Through this ini­ti­at­ive ESEB aims at fos­ter­ing the devel­op­ment and integ­ra­tion of loc­al evol­u­tion­ary research com­munit­ies and their links with the evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy com­munity in Europe.

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Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award

The mobil­ity award intends to sup­port field­work or lab vis­its of young research­ers.
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John Maynard Smith Prize

Every year the soci­ety dis­tin­guishes an out­stand­ing young evol­u­tion­ary bio­lo­gist with this award.
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Outreach Initiative Funds

The Out­reach Ini­ti­at­ive sup­ports pro­jects that pro­mote evol­u­tion-related activ­it­ies in order to improve pub­lic know­ledge about evol­u­tion world­wide.
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Presidents’ Award

Every six years the ESEB Pres­id­ents will recog­nise out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy by a mid-career sci­ent­ist.
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Progress Meetings in Evolutionary Biology

This ini­ti­at­ive sup­ports short meet­ings on focussed top­ics in the field of evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy with the object­ive to pro­duce either a Spe­cial Issue or Tar­get Review for the Journ­al of Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy.
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Special Topic Networks

Every oth­er year, ESEB invites pro­pos­als for Spe­cial Top­ic Net­works (STNs) that will sup­port dynam­ic and flex­ible series of small meet­ings and/or oth­er net­work­ing oppor­tun­it­ies in focused and cur­rently act­ive research areas.
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Stearns Graduate Student Prize

The Ste­arns Gradu­ate Stu­dents Prize is awar­ded annu­ally for an out­stand­ing paper pub­lished by a PhD stu­dent in the Journ­al of Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy dur­ing a giv­en cal­en­dar year.
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