The NOVA Prize

2008-04-30
The NOVA Prize 2008 was awarded the NOVA Network NorPath, within the area of Plant Pathology. The motivation for the prize was:

For their outstanding achievements in developing a Nordic Master program in Plant Pathology, which draws on the strengths of each individual university and their professional staff. The program will provide a diversity of specialisations, and will be attractive at both a Nordic and an International level.

The nerwork was approved a substantial funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers for developing the program, and the first students will enrol at LIFE and UMB in the fall of 2008. Other partners in the program are SLU and HU-AF, and LBHI may follow in a later stage.

You can read more about their achievements in the NOVA Annual Report 2007.

The most active members of the network have been:
Lisa Munk, LIFE, Project leader
David Collinge, LIFE
Anne-Marte Tronsmo, UMB
Jonathan Yuen, SLU
Annika Djurle, SLU
Minna Pirhonen, HU-AF

Brita Dahl, LIFE, secretary
Leif Sundheim, UMB, secretary
Hanna Friberg, SLU, secretary
Anna-Liisa Laine, HU-AF, secretary

The prize, 5.000 euro, was received by Minna Pirhonen and Annika Djurle at the Annual NOVA seminar in Helsinki.

2008-02-08
Who will get the NOVA Prize 2008?
Every year the NOVA Prize will be awarded to a person, who is working at one of the NOVA member universities, and with considerable efforts has developed and increased the Nordic cooperation. The amount of the NOVA Prize is 3.000 euro. In some occations the prize is increased, like in 2007 when the winning network got 5.000 euro.

Who can get the prize?
The prize winner shall work at one of the six NOVA member universities. The prize winner shall distinguish oneself by considerable efforts to increase the Nordic cooperation within the fields of NOVA University Network, or an overriding Nordic collaboration. The NOVA Prize may be intended for educational efforts as well as development in the research area. The winner may also be a distinguished NOVA network.

The prize winner shall use the prize money within his duty and for the benefit of the Nordic area.

Nomination - Deadline April 1, 2008
Nominations, incl. a motivation in short (maximum one page A4), may be sent in by employees and/or students at the member universities. The secretariat need to have the nominations April 1, 2008, at the latest, by e-mail to secretariat@nova-university.org

The jury representatives are the chairman of the NOVA board, the rector of NOVA and one member of the NOVA KUF.

Announcement
The winner will be announced at the NOVA website www.nova-university.org and the prize will be handed over on the annual NOVA seminar - this year in Helsinki, on the 24-25 of April, 2008.

Price winners
2007 The NOVA Network Agroasis - in Agroecology, 5.000 euro
2006 Ulrika Åkerlund, SLU, 2.000 euro
2006 Tomas B Randrup, KVL, 2.000 euro
2005 Odd-Ivar Lekang, UMB, 3.000 euro
2004 Professor Jari Valkonen, HU-AF, 3.000 euro
2004 Student Henrik Lindberg, HU-AF, "Special prize", 1.000 euro
2003 Lecturer Ian Jørgensen, KVL, 3.000 euro