• The candidate must be engaged in diabetes and/or classical endocrine research and affiliated with a public or private research institution in Denmark
• The candidate must hold a PhD degree

• The candidate must have been involved in programme development, organisation of education activities and talent development or networking and collaboration activities or direct teaching within DDEA and/or DDA on multiple occasions during the DDEA grant period (2023-2027) or the second DDA grant period (2018-2022).

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.
• 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 (nomination form).
   The letter must be co-signed by one other person (co-nominator), e.g. colleague/student/early-career researcher taught by the nominee or having collaborated with the nominee in connection with planning or organisation of activities within DDEA and/or DDA. Nominators are required to use the nomination form template and upload it together with the CV (see below, item 2) and an activities list (see below, item 3) in one single PDF file.
2. CV of the candidate (max. 2 A4 pages).
   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.
   • Other scientific qualifications and scientific focus areas.
3. Activities list (no page limit for this list).
   The activities list must include:
   • Experience with research education and training or networking and collaboration activities within DDEA and/or DDA, including a list of DDEA/DDA activities that the candidate has been involved in as an organiser, speaker, teacher, workshop keeper, instructor or the like. The list must include details about the following:
     • Title and date of activity
     • The role of the candidate for each activity (e.g. organiser, speaker, teacher, workshop keeper, instructor or other role)
   • Experience with research education and training or networking and collaboration activities beyond DDEA and DDA, including experience with supervision/mentoring, teaching or planning of courses/conferences/workshops or the like.

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 DDEA Research Education and Networking Award will only be given out if the DDEA Award Committee is able to recommend up to three candidates (meeting the requirements of the call for nominations) in order to ensure diversity of research area, gender and geography.

The awardee for the DDEA Research Education and Networking Award 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 winner will be awarded DKK 25,000.

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