The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) has the pleasure of announcing the launch of the SESAR JU Prize for Young Scientists Award 2014.

The SESAR Young Scientist Award, now in its third year, aims to recognise young scientists with high potential contributing to any SESAR activity by supporting the scientific development of “Air Traffic Management and Enabling Technologies”. In addition, the award also provides a mechanism for further personal development.

Candidates must be a Young Scientist who has contributed to scientific achievements within a Bachelor or Master Thesis (which must have been completed not more than 2 years ago) or part of an on-going PhD, and who are resident of an EU Member State or an Associated Country to the 7th Research and Development Framework Programme (FP7). The Young Scientist applying must be able to show scientific achievement that is clearly relevant under Single European Sky (SES) and in particular SESAR, covering ATM, related Airport and Air Vehicle areas of research.

A full description of the contest rules can be found here. If you wish to present your candidacy for this Award, please prepare a complete Application as described in the contest rules and send it to: [email protected]

The SESAR Young Scientist Award will be awarded on the 27th November 2014 at the SESAR Innovation Days in Madrid, Spain. See www.sesarinnovationdays.eu for more information.

The deadline for application is the 6 October 2014 11.30 (Brussels local time).