How to apply

• do not apply directly to UNESCO; contact your National Commission for UNESCO to make known your interest in being your country’s candidate for this prize;
• if you belong to a national assocation for the advancement of science or any other science association, or to an association of science writers or scientific journalists, make known to it your interest in applying for this prize
• this is a biennial prize that is awarded in November in odd years (2011, 2013, 2015) . The closing date for applications is 15 May of the same year.
• checklist
• Your application needs to contain the following items ((in English or French in four copies): ):

  1. curriculum vitae
  2. completed submission sheet French / English)
  3. description of your major achievements in science popularization
  4. annexes supporting your career in science popularization. These may be books, CD-ROMs destined for the general public, newspaper articles, videocassettes of films or television programmes you have made, brochures of public exhibitions you have organized, etc. (Please note that if an official translation of your work into English and/or French does not exist, it is in your own best interests to supply a detailed explanation in English or French of the content of each annex or a partial translation).