2026 Prizes and Fellowships – Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei has published the calls for applications for the 2026 Prizes, which include awards in a wide range of disciplines:

  • International Prize "Mottana" for Determinative Mineralogy and/or Mineral Synthesis
  • International Prize "Bruno" for Gynaecology
  • International Prize "Frassetto" for Physical Anthropology or Palaeoanthropology
  • International Prize "Ronga" for Musicology, History, Criticism and Musical Aesthetics
  • International Prize "Benazzi-Lentati" for Zoology with an evolutionary-organismic focus
  • International Prize "Salvatore" for Thyroid Pathophysiology
  • International Prize "Paterna Baldizzi" for Sculpture
  • International Prize "Procacci" for History and Art History of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, or for the History of Restoration and its Techniques
  • Prize "Margreth" for Cell Biology
  • Prize "Margreth" (up to 40 years of age) for Muscular Pathophysiology
  • Prize "Castelnuovo-Margreth" for the Teaching of Science in Secondary Schools
  • Prize "Montessori-Margreth" for Teaching Innovation in Nursery and Primary Schools
  • Prize "Borgia" for a Scientific Work
  • Prize "Fiocco" for Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Adolescent Heart Diseases
  • Prize "Di Braccio" for Chemistry
  • Prize "Iapichino" for Mathematical Analysis
  • Prize "Ugo" for Catalysis in Processes and Energy
  • Prize "Schiavinato" for Mineralogical Sciences
  • Prize "Graffi" for Comparative Anatomy
  • Prize "Santoro-Passarelli" for Labour Law
  • Prize "de Meo" for Architectural Design (deadline: 31 March 2026)
  • Prize "Maiani" for Physics

Applications must be submitted exclusively online via the form available at: https://selezionionline.lincei.it

Deadline: 30 November 2025, 6 PM.

 

The following fellowship calls are also open, with deadlines in September and October 2025:

Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • "Lina Rizzo" – Planktology
  • "Dr Giuseppe Guelfi" – Biomedicine or Biology
  • "Roberta Oberti and Elio Cannillo" – Earth Sciences and Materials Science
  • "Beniamino Segre" (Interdisciplinary Lincei Centre) – Biology
  • "Beniamino Segre" (Interdisciplinary Lincei Centre) – Art History
  • "Raffaele Pettazzoni" – History of Religions
  • "Luca Serianni" – awarded to a scholar (Italian or foreign) author of a book or essay on the History of the Italian Language (13th–19th century)
  • "Clelia Laviosa" (2 fellowships) – advanced course at the Athens branch of the Italian Archaeological School
    (Deadline: 31 October 2025)

Annual Fellowships for Graduates and Final-Year Students

  • "Enrico Persico" (2) – 1st year Master’s in Physics, State Universities of Rome
  • "Enrico Persico" (2) – 2nd year Master’s in Physics, State Universities of Rome
  • "Amelia Minghini widowed Forti and Novelli" (Union of Lincei Foundations) – for university students and recent graduates

Fellowships for Research Stays in Europe

  • 4 fellowships for Italian scholars in scientific disciplines
  • 4 fellowships for Italian scholars in the humanities

All calls are available here: https://www.lincei.it/en/bandi-premi-borse