EPA Research Prizes

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EPA Research Prizes

Applications for the EPA 2025 Research Prize is closed!

We are pleased to announce that the application for a EPA 2025 Research Prize is open. Each year, EPA awards individual Research Prizes to promising young mental health professionals who publish outstanding Scientific papers related to psychiatry or psychiatric research.

5 winners will be selected by the Jury and will receive an award of €2 000 each, as well as a free registration to the EPA 2025 Congress, and up to €500 reimbursed for combined travel and accommodation costs if present at the Congress Opening Ceremony.

Young psychiatrists can submit one article under one of the proposed categories:

  • Clinical psychopathology and refinement of psychiatric diagnostic categories
  • Biological correlates and treatments of mental disorders
  • Psychiatric epidemiology, social psychiatry, and psychotherapeutic interventions in mental disorders
  • Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Best paper published in European Psychiatry

Application deadline: 28 October 2024, 23:59 CET.

For more information, please contact the EPA Office at epa.prizes@europsy.net.

For more information on previous winners, check out our dedicated page.

Eligibility

Applications will be carefully selected by a Jury. 

  • Qualify as an Early Career mental health professional (professional under 40 years old or within 5 years of completion of specialist training)
  • Be the first author of an article published or accepted for publication in a scientific journal in 2024
  • Reside in a country included in the World Health Organisation Europe region

The application process is fully internet-based.

Please prepare the following documents and information before you begin your application:

  • An updated curriculum vitae in English
  • A copy of your ID
  • A copy of your published article