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On May 28, 2024 in Cambridge, United Kingdom, LUT University and Clare Hall, an Institute of Advanced Study and graduate college in the University of Cambridge, signed an agreement to establish the joint Global Prize and a Visiting Fellowship programme. The Global Climate Research Prize is a notable biennial recognition for finding science-based innovations to climate-induced issues, globally.
The new agreement reflected the spirit of a recent joint declaration made between the UK and Finland on their strategic partnership, which recognizes and enhances their bilateral commitment to global issues such as energy, environment and climate, education, science, research, innovation and technology, and people-to-people links. The new agreement captures the essence of this type of cooperation between Finland and the UK.
The key academics that have been developing the Global Climate Research Prize include Lord Martin Rees, President Alan Short, Rector Juha-Matti Saksa, Honorary Professor Andrew Blake, Professor Hannele Seeck, Strategy Director Janne Hokkanen, and Elina Huculak. Professor Emily Shuckburgh, OBE, Director of Cambridge Zero as well as Dr. Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research in the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge have also been consulted.
Purpose
The Global Prize is a biennial environmental award for the participating academic institutions' researchers of any career stage who have already published, top-quality research that has transformative and transboundary implications for addressing climate change-induced issues globally. The prize will be awarded to the partner university-endorsed applicants who are affiliated as staff members with the university (part-time, full-time, permanent or fixed term) whose scientific research demonstrates the greatest potential to address these critical issues. Each Global Prize award recipient will be presented with a certificate of merit and €200,000 (200,000 euros) in prize money for the member university, allocated to the university, to further the recipient's area of research.