Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award issues call for papers

ISTANBUL

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards has started collecting essays for its 2017 competition. 

The team of this year’s awards, distributed in honor of the late Sakıp Sabancı, honorary chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University, is “Europeans with Legacies from Turkey in Everyday Life,” officials said in a statement on Sept. 27. 

The essays will be welcomed until Jan. 16, 2017.

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award involves a Jury Prize of $25,000. 

The Jury Prize will be awarded to an individual who has made distinguished contributions the theme, the statement read. 

An independent and international jury will select the awardee.
 
In addition to the Jury Prize, essay awards will be given to researchers under 45 years of age.

This category includes $10,000 for each of the three award-winning essays to be selected by the same jury from among the submitted essays.

Essays must be of the format and size of a regular academic journal article and must be submitted in English.