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The call for nominations to our ECPA awards is open until the 30th May.
The European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) confers awards in the following categories:
The ECPA Lifetime Career Award: The Award is to honour individuals with outstanding, long-term scientific contribution to community psychology theory, research, and practice.
The ECPA Early Career Award: This award will recognise individuals for their significant contribution(s) to the field of community psychology and who are within ten years of their last degree.
The ECPA Contribution to Practice Award: The award is presented to honour individuals, groups, or organisations that have made significant contributions to the field of community psychology. It recognises bodies of work that demonstrate high-quality and innovative applications of community psychological principles, resulting in meaningful impacts on the communities served.
The ECPA Best Doctoral Thesis Award: This Award is to identify the best doctoral thesis on a topic relevant to the field of community psychology completed during the prior two years. The completion date for the dissertation refers to the graduation date. We might consider accepting dissertations in languages other than English, depending on our capacity. Please get in touch with us first to discuss this.
The ECPA Master Thesis Award: This award is to identify the best master’s thesis in the field of community psychology completed during the previous year. The completion date for the thesis refers to the graduation date. We might consider accepting dissertations in languages other than English, depending on our capacity. Please get in touch with us first to discuss this. For 2025, ECPA will provide 200 euros to the winner.
Procedure rules
The awards are awarded annually.
Nominations are considered only from ECPA members, except for the Master Thesis Award.
Nominations and self-nominations are both accepted.
Past winners cannot be nominated for the same category of award.
All nominations should be sent as email attachments to the ECPA Board by the deadline (May 30th) at ecpa.psychassociation@gmail.com.
Lifetime Career Award, Early Career Award, and Contribution to Practice Award
The nominee CV: 1-2 pages letter describing the nominee’s work and why they are worthy of recognition.
Details of the proposer (when applicable) and nominee’s personal data (names, address, and e-mails).
It is strongly recommended to accompany the submission with supporting documents, including the nominee’s published papers, book chapters, and/or other relevant outputs.
Doctoral Thesis Award
The doctoral thesis in its original form
A document (in English, max. 4,000 words) including: an abstract (~300 words); state of the art; methodology; results; discussion; conclusions.
CV and brief presentation of the applicant (~300 words).
Masters Thesis Award
The master thesis in its original form
A document (in English, max. 2,000 words) including: an abstract (~300 words); state of the art; methodology; results; discussion; conclusions.
CV and brief presentation of the applicant (~300 words).
Benefits for awardees
Each award is accompanied by the Award Certificate and the announcement of the award on our social media platforms/newsletter. More benefits for the winners include: free ECPA membership for 1 year; free registration for the ECPA conference (if taking place during the next year); public announcement of the nomination at the ECPA conference.
The prizes will be awarded by a Committee that includes one member from the ECPA Board and at least two invited external experts. |
