Descartes Prize

Not to be confused with Descartes-Huygens Prize.

The Descartes Prize was an annual award in for outstanding scientific and technological achievements resulting from collaborative research in Europe, given between 2000 and 2007 by the European Union. The prize was named in honour of the French mathematician and philosopher, René Descartes. The Descartes Prize was discontinued in 2007, when the EU funding framework FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) led to a reorganisation and creation of new funding schemes such as the European Research Council (ERC) grants.

The Descartes Prize was awarded to teams of researchers who had "achieved outstanding scientific or technological results through collaborative research in any field of science, including the economic, social science and humanities." Nominations were submitted by the research teams themselves or by suitable national bodies.

A science communication prize was also started in 2004 as part of the Descartes Prize but in 2007 was separated to the Science Communication Prize.

Proposals (also referred to as submissions) received were judged and a shortlist of nominees were announced, from which five Laureates (finalists) and five Winners were announced at a prize ceremony in December each year.

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