• The candidate must be engaged in diabetes or classical endocrine research
• The candidate must be affiliated with a public or private research institution in Denmark
• The candidate must hold a PhD degree and she/he must have obtained her/his PhD diploma within the past ten years (at the time of nomination)

Please note

• The winner must be able to attend the award ceremony on the DDEA Annual Day (22 January 2026).
• A candidate can only be nominated once and only for either the Early-Career Researcher Awards or the DDEA Research Education and Networking Award. If the DDEA receives more than one nomination of the same candidate, only the nomination submitted first (according to date and time of submission) will be taken into consideration.
• Nominators can only nominate one person for each DDEA Award.
• The nominees does not need to be DDA/DDEA funded.
• Members of the Award Committee cannot be nominated or nominate a person.
• Previous winners of the DDEA/DDA awards cannot be nominated.

Nomination deadline is 5 October 2025.

Nominations must be written in English and submitted via our online nomination form at the Grant Application System. Please note that you must be logged into the DDEA Grants Website in order to submit a nomination.

The nomination should include the following documents (in one single PDF file only):

1. Letter of nomination from the nominator.
   Nominators are required to use the nomination form template and upload it together with the CV and publication list of the candidate in one single PDF file.
2. CV of the candidate (max. 2 A4 pages), including publication list of the candidate (no page limit for the publication list).
   The CV must include details about the following:
   • Personal data: Name, address, etc.
   • Education (for academic degrees, list the date and year of obtaining the degree).
   • Current and most recent positions held.
   • Any periods of leave (e.g. parental leave, family care leave, military service, humanitarian aid work, etc.).
   • For periods of leave, indicate the cause and state precisely the starting date and end date of the leave period. Due consideration will be given to any periods of leave of absence, i.e. for candidates who have been on parental leave after obtaining their PhD, DDEA allows for an extended period of time since the PhD degree was obtained. The length of extended period will be calculated by multiplying the actual number of leave weeks by 2. Thus, the exact period of parental leave, with start date and end date, must be stated in the applicant’s CV.
   • Other scientific qualifications and scientific focus areas.
   • Experience with supervision/mentoring, teaching or planning of courses/conferences or the like.
   • International relations, interdisciplinary or cross-sectoral collaborations.
   • Academic awards and honours.
   • Invited oral presentations at international conferences.
   • Public dissemination of the candidate’s research and results thereof, i.e. on social media, in the press or in the public in general.
   • External funding obtained.
   • List of publications (only already published or accepted publications should be included), including H-index.

An award committee will assess the applications. The Award Committee will consist of two members of the DDEA Committee for Education and three members of the DDEA Advisory Board (all appointed by the DDEA Board of Directors).

The Award Committee will forward the recommendations to the DDEA Board of Directors, which will make the final decision. See evaluation criteria.

Please note that the Early-Career Researcher Awards will only be given out if the DDEA Award Committee is able to recommend up to three candidates per award (meeting the requirements of the call for nominations) in order to ensure diversity of research area, gender and geography.

The awardees for the Early Career Researcher Awards 2026 will be notified of the decision by the end of 2025 and will be invited to take part in the award ceremony on 22 January 2026.

The winners will be awarded DKK 25,000 each.

For questions regarding the nomination procedure, please contact: ouh.ddea@rsyd.dk.