The Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw Tech) has announced a new call for applications – edition 2025. Applications should be submitted by 30 September 2025 to lemprize@pwr.edu.pl.
The application must include:
- a form according to the template provided in the Documents section (the last two pages must be signed by hand and scanned),
- up to 3 publications confirming the discovery or achievement (books, articles, patents etc.),
- 2 or 3 recommendation letters, including max. one by a person affiliated in the same country as the candidate (recommendations should be addressed to the Lem Prize Committee and include the name, title, function, affiliation and signature of the recommending person and date of the recommendation),
- a scientific CV – not required but very helpful.
Who can submit an application? A scientist who:
- is 40 or younger in 2025,
- is affiliated with an academic or research institution in a European Union member state, in an associated country participating in Horizon Europe, or in Switzerland,
- has made in the last 3 full calendar years (from 1 January 2022 until the submission date) a discovery or significant achievement in broadly understood fields of science and engineering.
Complete details to be found at: https://lemprize.pwr.edu.pl/.
Stanisław Herman Lem
Lem (1921–2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on, inter alia, philosophy, futurology and literary criticism. Lem’s books have been translated into over 50 languages and have sold over 45 million copies. He is best known worldwide as the author of the novel Solaris (1961).
Lem’s science fiction works explore philosophical threads by speculating about technology, the nature of intelligence, the inability to communicate and understand alien intelligence, despair over human limitations and humanity’s place in the universe.