Purpose and Criteria for Selection:

The IPN Distinguished Service Award, installed in 2024, and first awarded in 2025, recognizes a person that has provided outstanding service to the IPN community. The person being nominated should have achieved distinction in one or more of the following ways:

• Demonstrably contributing to the position of the IPN community in the context of NWO, other academic research disciplines, and the Dutch ministries of Economic Affairs, and/or Education, Culture and Science;
• Showing extraordinary tenacity, ingenuity and/or resourcefulness in achieving funding for the IPN community;
• Going well beyond the normal performance requirements expected of an individual research employee of a member of IPN and thus providing a model for others; and/or
• Developing over a period of years a funding program beneficial to the IPN community of such depth and scope as to warrant special recognition.

Eligibility:

Any employee of one of the IPN (extraordinary) member organisations providing service or support to the IPN community. The current list of IPN (extraordinary) member organisations is maintained on the IPN website.

Nomination Requirements:

A completed nomination form. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.

Selection Committee:

For the first edition, the selection committee will constitute of the IPN board. For the subsequent editions, the IPN Prizes & Awards Committee (which constitutes of members of the IPN community) will take over as selection committee. The most senior member of the committee in years of service shall serve as its chair.

Submission Deadline and Nomination Form:

Click here to preview the nomination form and/or to start a nomination. For the first edition, nominations must be submitted by February 14, 2025. For subsequent editions, all nominations must be submitted by December 20 of each year.

Updates Approved by the IPN Board: December 2024