João Monjardino 2023 Prize - Mental Health: Clinical Research and Mental Health Services

Under the Protocol signed between the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. and the Fundação Professor Francisco Pulido Valente, the call for the João Monjardino 2013 Prize is open.

The Prize is intended to distinguish the best paper published on the topic Mental Health: clinical research and mental health services without restrictions on the year of publication, which describes the results of the research conducted by a researcher under 35 years old at the date of submission of the application, in an institution of the national scientific and technological system.

Only one original paper per candidate will be admitted to the Call, published or accepted for publication with proof of acceptance in a national or international journal of the speciality in which the applicant must be the first author or co-author (as long as it is acknowledged in the publication as having an equal contribution to the paper as the first author).

Researchers under 35 years old at the date of submission of the application.

Applications must be submitted between 26 June 2023 and 29 September 2023 (5:00 PM, Lisbon time), by filling in the electronic form available here.

The following documents must be uploaded in the application form:

• Applicant’s citizen card (Cartão de Cidadão – CC);
• Letter from the head of the research group, confirming that the research was carried out in their laboratory/institution, had his/her acknowledgement  and approves the application. The letter must also contain information about the applicant’s contribution to the work published or accepted for publication;
• Proof of acceptance for publication of the paper, if it has not yet been published.

Contacts for addicional information:

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - premio.monjardino@fct.pt

Fundação Francisco Pulido Valente - fundacaopulidovalente@gmail.com

The evaluation is carried out by the following members of the Jury:

Miguel Xavier (President of the Jury)

Full Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health. 

Chairman of the Scientific Council - NOVA Medical School / FCM-UNL. 

Maria João Heitor

Senior consultant psychiatrist and Head of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Department at Hospital Beatriz Angelo

Pedro Morgado

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Communication at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho

Regional Coordinator for Mental Health in the North Region of Portugal

Head of the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders Unit at Hospital de Braga

João Relvas

(on behalf of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)

Professor of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (retired)

Psychiatrist at the Montes Claros Clinic, Coimbra

Maria Cristina Canavarro

(on behalf of the Fundação Francisco Pulido Valente)

Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra

Researcher, coordinator of the Unit of Cognitive-Behavioral Clinical Psychology (UPC3) of University of Coimbra and coordinator of the Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC)

Applications are evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Scientific quality of the paper;
• Relevance of the study and relevance of the results obtained within the topic of the prize;
• Contribution of the applicant to the work published or accepted for publication.

The results of the evaluation will be announced on this webpage.

The final decision will be notified to the applicants by e-mail.

The amount of the Prize is 10.000 EUR (ten thousand euros), paid in equal shares by both foundations and awarded in a single instalment.