E-SWAN (European Space Weather and Space Climate Association) is happy to announce the 2025 contest for the three International Space Weather and Space Climate Medals (Kristian Birkeland Medal, Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal, Alexander Chizhevsky Medal). The medal recipients will be announced during the Medal Ceremony on 27th October 2025 at the European Space Weather Week in Umeå (Sweden). Each winner will be invited to give a 20-minute lecture about his/her research in a dedicated session on the following day. Moreover, medalists are invited to serve on the Awards Committee in the following three years and they are offered free E-SWAN membership for those three years.
In order to nominate a person for one of the International Space Weather and Space Climate Medals, please send to medals-at-lists.eswan.eu one single PDF document which includes:
- Your full name and professional address.
- The full name and professional address of the person that you nominate (the nominee).
- Which of the three medals the nominee is nominated for (only one medal type is allowed for each nominee).
- Reasons for the nomination (two pages maximum). Please make sure that these reasons should relate to Space Weather and/or Space Climate and fulfill the criteria for the selected medal.
- A full CV of the nominee (three pages maximum).
- Letters of support from two colleagues, preferably outside your own or the candidate’s institution. You may also include those two colleagues as co-signatories on the nomination proposal.
- Up to five references (journal articles, prizes, patents, etc.) of the nominee’s work.
Self-nominations are not allowed. Any individual can only nominate one person for a medal. Note that the medal committee members cannot nominate or be nominated.
The deadline for the nominations is 15th July 2025.