Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific (SRAP) is an independent and non-for-profit community association of volunteers in Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific that aims to disseminate excellent-quality research and facilitate collaboration opportunities to contribute to the cultural enrichment and knowledge advance of our society.
SRAP is committed in boosting the career perspectives of Early-Career Spanish researchers in the Australia-Pacific region. To achieve this goal, the SRAP-frA Early-Career Researcher Award 2025 aims to recognise extraordinary research trajectories of Early-Career SRAP members.
This Award is organised by SRAP, and it is sponsored by the Ramón Areces Foundation (frA). The frA was created in 1976 with the broad objective of fostering scientific and technical research in Spain and education and culture in general. The Foundation was a pioneering institution in our country, and ever since its creation it has constantly and firmly supported scientific research as the driving force behind progress and modernity.
The Award comes with a diploma certificate for the three finalists and a monetary prize of $1000 for the awardee. It is expected that all finalists will attend in person the award ceremony at the 2025 Australia-Spain Research Forum on the 24th October 2025 at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and they will give a short talk about their research to the audience. The winner of the SRAP-frA Early-Career Award will be notified during the ceremony after all participants have presented their talks at the event.
Eligibility: Interested applicants must
[1] be a SRAP member (applicants who are not SRAP members can register via this link before they submit their application); and
[2] have completed their PhD < 5 years before the closure date of the submission period or have < 5 years of research experience. Note that this Award will consider career disruptions and other relative-to-opportunity considerations.
The selection of the awardees will be done according to the procedure outlined below.
- Friday 11th of July 2025: SRAP will announce a call-for-applications of the 3rd edition of this Award via direct emails sent to SRAP members, posts in social media, the SRAP newsletter and other means.
- The call-for-applications will be open for 9 weeks, with the submission closing date on Friday 12nd of September 2025. During this time, interested applicants can submit their application via the email address: early-career-award@srap-ieap.org.
- Only merits in which the applicant is the lead author or have played a key role will be considered. This will ensure a fair competition of merits and achievements in which applicants have made a significant contribution.
- Applications are comprised of 3 parts.
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- Part 1 – Research trajectory. Provide a description of (max of 1 A4 page each, 2 A4 pages in total):
- the applicant’s research trajectory in plain language and how this award will help in their career,
- the research impact in the applicant’s field.
- Part 1 – Research trajectory. Provide a description of (max of 1 A4 page each, 2 A4 pages in total):
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- Part 2 – SRAP engagement. Provide proof of:
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- the activities that the applicant has already performed in collaboration with SRAP.
- plan for future activities that the applicant proposes to carry out with SRAP.
- Budget of the planned future activities.
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- Part 3 – CV of the applicant (to be attached separately as a PDF file. File name must be the
Applicants name_CV_SRAP-frA )-
- The CV should include all the applicant merits, including peer-review publications,
conferences, book chapters, patents, awarded grants as principal investigator,
artwork, received awards, and other merits.
- The CV should include all the applicant merits, including peer-review publications,
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- Part 3 – CV of the applicant (to be attached separately as a PDF file. File name must be the
All three finalists must attend the Australia-Spain Research Forum on the 24th of October 2025 (assistance
to cover travel costs can be provided) and are expected to give a short talk about their research to the audience. The talk will be evaluated as part of the selection process. The winner of the 2025 SRAP-frA Early-Career Award will be announced during the ceremony after all participants have presented their talks in a formal event. Results will also be publicly announced on the following days via emails and communications in social media.
All participants will be able to request SRAP (Based on the future plan activities and the budget presented)
to financially support any of the activities to carry out with SRAP in their proposal.
MORE INFO: Announcement of the SRAP-frA Early-Career Researcher Award 2025 in a PDF file (285 kb).