JSCC Research Encouragement Award 2025
Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) invites candidates for the JSCC Research Encouragement Award in 2025. This award is given to young researchers (not greater than 38 years old on 1st April, 2025) in JSCC members who are recognized for outstanding research achievements and contributions to the development for coordination chemistry. The implementation and selection of this award will be proceeded based on the Rules and additional rules for JSCC Research Encouragement Award, and the Rules for Election of Review Committee Members of JSCC Awards. The winner will be awarded at the 75th Conference of JSCC (15th – 17th September, 2025, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan). The rules can be found on the website of JSCC. Application for this award is self-recommended. The application guidelines are as follows. The documents for the application must be electronically submitted to the JSCC office no later than 30th May (Fri.), 2025. We are looking forward to receiving many applications.
Application guideline for JSCC Research Encouragement Award 2025
1．Qualification requirements
Applicants for this award must have been a member of JSCC for at least 3 years as of 1st April, 2025 and must not be older than 38; however, if an applicant has had to suspend his or her research activities due to life events or other causes, the application will be considered even if the applicant exceeds the age limit. Application for this award is self-recommended. The applicants cannot apply for this award in combination with JSCC Award or JSCC Award for Creative Research.
2. Documents to be submitted
(1) Statement of achievements (free format; within the 500-word limit; including the statement of why this candidate deserves the award, see the Section 1 of the Rules). If the applicants have previously received awards from other academic societies, the differences and new developments in your research from the work in the previous awards should be clearly explained.
(2) Curriculum Vitae (free format)
(3) List of achievements (free format; Corresponding author(s) should be indicated with asterisks): A list of main papers, reports, reviews, commentary articles, books, etc.
(4) Electronic files of up to 5 major papers.
(5) If applicable, an explanation regarding why the applicant suspended his or her research activities (free format): if the applicant has either had to suspend, or incurred a negative impact on, his or her research activities due to life events or other causes, the applicant is asked to outline the reasons for and duration of this suspension or impact.
・The PDF files of the required documents should be electronically submitted to the JSCC office by the deadline. Once submitted, no replacement of the files will be allowed.
3. Notes on preparing documents to be submitted
(1) Recommended type settings: 11 pt font, 40 lines on A4 paper.
(2) List of achievements: Describe separately the items (articles, reports, review articles, commentary articles, books, etc.) in the lists. As for peer-reviewed papers, you may list in press papers while not those that have been submitted but not accepted yet.
4. Review period
The review will be conducted from the mid-June to mid-July.
5. Requirements for the awardee
The awardee will be required to submit an abstract for the award lecture that is published in the abstracts of the 75th Conference of JSCC, and to give the award lecture at the conference. In addition, the awardee will be required to contribute an “Award Account” on the awarded research to the Bulletin of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (BJSCC), which is scheduled to be published in 2026.
6. Others
The “Award Account” published in BJSCC will appear on a website of J-Stage.
7. Deadline for submission, sending and contact addresses
Deadline for submission: 30th May (Fri.), 2025
Sending and contact addresses: Office of the Japanese Society for Coordination Chemistry, Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myoidaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
TEL: +81-564-59-5581
E-mail: sakutai(at)ims.ac.jp Please replace (at) to @ for sending an e-mail.
