Recognizing and rewarding scientific research excellence
Fondation Pour l’Audition, a public-interest foundation, has committed to an ambitious program to bring together research, healthcare and disease prevention. As part of this mission, it rewards and supports pioneering hearing researchers.
Hearing health is a major public health issue: worldwide, more than 430 million people have incapacitating hearing loss. Through its commitment, Fondation Pour l’Audition aims to promote scientific progress, provide new solutions and offer new hope to people impacted by hearing loss.
Fondation Pour l’Audition is reinforcing its commitment by encouraging talents and paying tribute to scientific breakthroughs in France and worldwide, with 2 prizes delivered every year.
Scientific Grand Prize
This prize pays tribute to scientists and clinicians whose work represents a major breakthrough in hearing science, offering new hope to all. Since scientific advances go beyond borders, Fondation Pour l’Audition wants to support researchers who are accelerating Hearing research, wherever they are – in France or abroad.
Eligibility criteria:
- Active researchers or clinicians (emeritus status not eligible)
- To be nominated by a peer
Prize:
- Personal prize : €40,000 personal
- Optional prize : €25,000 for a short sabbatical in a research institution in France (or abroad if the winner is already in France).
Best publication of the year
The FPA "Best publication of the year" Prize is awarded to young investigators in recognition of the excellence and impact on their work in Hearing. The Prize will honor major research discoveries published in 2025, either clinical or basic, in the field of Hearing. FPA welcomes applications related to topics in Hearing Sciences, auditory neurosciences, brain imaging, disability, speech...
This Prize is divided in 3 categories as fellows :
- one prize recognizing a significant work in basic science,
- the second prize recognizing a significant work in clinical research
- the third prize recognizing a significant work in humanities and social sciences
Eligiblity criteria:
The Prize is open to young investigators meeting the following criteria :
- The work related to the publication must have taken place in a French laboratory
- If the applicant is/was a graduate student, he/she was or is currently registered to a French "Ecole doctorale" at the time of the research work
- If the applicant is/was a postdoctoral fellow, he/she was or is currently employed by a French academic or clinical public research institution at the time of the research work
- He/she must holds a PhD degree for 8 years at the most
Publications eligible to the call for applications are limited to original articles published in a peer-review journal and must be available online at the time of application. Preprints, reviews, master or PhD dissertations are ineligible as well as articles published in predatory journals.
Applications must comply with FPA's mission to improve hearing health and promote translational research. Publications involving a member of the FPA Scientific Committee or Board of Directors and their laboratory/clinical department are not eligible for a FPA prize.
Prize:
Each Prize is awarded to the laureate, not the supervisor or their laboratory. The amount of each Prize is set to ten thousand euros (10,000 €) per prize divided into 2 parts:
- Personal prize of 5,000 € (subject to tax regulation)
- Professional prize of 5,000 € to present their research work in scientific meetings or to visit a research lab
Nomination process
Candidates to the Scientific Grand prize: only be nominated by their peers. They may not nominate themselves
Candidates to the Best Publication prize: application by the first author of the publication
Evaluation process
Nominations who comply with the scientific prizes' policies will be evaluated by Fondation Pour l’Audition’s Scientific Committee.
Once the nominations will be evaluated, Fondation Pour l’Audition’s Scientific Committee will propose laureates for the scientific prizes to Fondation Pour l'Audition's Board of Directors.
HOW to SUBMIT A NOMINATION
To nominate a candidate or nominate yourself, download and use the relevant form. No other form will be accepted. Read and follow the instructions carefully provided in the policies and guidelines of the call for nominations.
CLOSING MAY 19, 2026
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