Horizon Awards nomination criteria

  • Nominations for 2024 close on 26 July 2024.
  • Nominees do not need to be AMI members.
  • Nominators do not need to be AMI members.
  • AMI both permits and encourages self-nomination. This is to ensure people from all parts of the microbiology community have a fair chance of being recognised for their achievements.
  • Only individuals can be nominated for Horizon Awards, not an organisation, group or product. Nominees however may be nominated for work associated with/on behalf of a wider group or product.
  • All nominees will be asked to submit EDI information along with their nomination in order to help us to continue to develop our awards each year and ensure they include the whole microbiology community. This will be through voluntary self-declaration of gender. 
  • The following groups of individuals are not eligible to be nominated:
    • Trustees of AMI.
    • AMI staff members.
    • Members of AMI's Finance, Audit and Risk subcommittee.
At Applied Microbiology International we are keen to ensure we recognise excellence everywhere in Microbiology. Therefore, we welcome nominations that reflect the diversity of our Microbiology Community. We particularly welcome nominees from under-represented groups and from individuals with diverse or non-traditional career trajectories. To make a nomination, please use our online nomination system to submit the following information:
 
  • Name and contact details.
  • A list of all individuals who contributed to the initiative (if nominating for work associated with a group). The primary contact for the team will be asked to confirm the list and if necessary, add additional team members at the point of nomination.
  • A short description of what the nominee should be awarded for. This must be no longer than 250 characters (including spaces) and no longer than one sentence.
  • Details of any relevant publicly available outputs, e.g. journal articles, reports, conference abstracts, blog posts, news articles or software. The outputs should typically but not exclusively be from the last five years.
  • A supporting statement (up to 750 words), written for a general education audience, addressing the selection criteria below.
    • A summary/description of the why the nominee is being nominated
    • Description of the originality of the nominees work
    • A consideration of how the initiative has directly contributed to the field of Applied Microbiology, via theoretical/technical advancement and/or increased visibility.
    • Any tangible products, intellectual property or events that have arisen as a result of the nominees work.
    • Why the nominee and/or their associated work can be considered to be at the pinnacle, or forefront of their profession
  • AMI reserves the right to rescind any prize if there are reasonable grounds to do so. All nominators will be asked to confirm that, to the best of their knowledge, their nominee's professional standing is such that there is no confirmed or potential impediment to them receiving this prize. All those entering the AMI awards programme will be asked to  read and adhere to the AMI Code of Conduct Declaration for Awards.