Early-bird registration deadline: 21st April 2026
Call for ESSSAT Prizes
Call for Submissions for the 2026 ESSSAT Prizes
The ESSSAT Student Prize (of 1500 €) will be awarded for an essat of a maximum of 10,000 words, written by an undergraduate or postgraduate student, submitted before 31 January 2026.
Submissions can address any aspect of the interface between religion/theology and the natural sciences and should exemplify the aims of ESSSAT. The submissions will be evaluated based on their originality, quality, and relevance. Candidates for both the Research and Student Prizes must be nominated by a senior faculty member of a university or similar institution of higher education in Europe. ESSSAT member is not required. The work must be based on research done in Europe (with allowance for a period of research elsewhere of at most one year), and have been accepted for academic credit, presented, or published in 2024-2026. It may be in any major European language. It need not have been published.
The prizes will be presented to the winners at ESCT XXI in Leeds, U.K. in August 19-22, 2026.
The prize winners are expected to attend the conference and their costs for attendance will be covered by ESSSAT.
Submissions should be emailed to Dr Jaime Tatay ([email protected]) as a pdf-file along with:
- (a) A brief curriculum vitae of the author (stating nationality),
- (b) A letter of nomination from a senior faculty member
- (c) For the Research Prize, a 10-page summary of the work in English
(1.5 line spacing, font size 12) is also required.
Don't forget, international attendees now need a ETIAS visa to travel to the UK
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