In September a prize will be awarded to a good example from practice or research that evidently contributes to decreasing suicide in the Netherlands.

On World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) the ‘113 Zelfmoordpreventie’ and Suicide Research the Netherlands award a prize to a good example from practice or research, that evidently contributes to decreasing suicide in the Netherlands. The award for a good example from practice or good research alternates each year.

This year, on September 10, the first (late) Jan Mokkenstorm Award for research will be available: a talent-encouragement award for a researcher who with his/her research has evidently contributed to fewer suicides in the Netherlands. 

Criteria:

  • You are a junior research or PhD candidate
  • Your research is written down in a scientific paper (should not be published yet)
  • Your are the first author of this article

The award ceremony of the Jan Mokkenstorm award 2020 will take place on the symposium ‘Suïcidepreventie: van goedbedoelend naar professioneel’ by APH researcher Aartjan Beekman (professor in Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC).

Do you happen to know a researcher eligible for this award, or are you one yourself? Send a motivation with written publication(s) to k.vandenberg@113.nl before August 15, 2020.