Frontiers Research Foundation

The Frontiers Planet Prize recognizes transformational research that shows the greatest potential to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges such as stratospheric ozone depletion, loss of biosphere integrity, chemical pollution, climate change, ocean acidification, freshwater consumption, land system change, novel entities, atmospheric aerosol loading.
It welcomes breakthrough research across all disciplines, on condition it is focused on planetary boundaries and presents original research findings or insightful reviews and syntheses that help to reduce the destabilization of the Earth system.

As official National Nominating Body, BOKU University will select three submissions to advance to the National Representative Body (Austrian Academy of Sciences), which will then elect the top three nominations from their NNB network to represent the country to the international Jury of 100.
Each year, three Global Winners are awarded USD 1 Million each. In addition, there will be one national champion selected for each country.
Research requirements:
Research must be based on one research article, published in established, peer-reviewed scientific journals, with robust peer review and transparent publication procedures.

  • The research outlines actionable solutions or pathways that can be implemented in policies, adapted commercially, or otherwise contribute to keeping global development within planetary boundaries.
  • The research advances the scientific understanding and quantification of planetary boundaries. It explores how planetary boundaries are affected or impact life support systems / the Earth system or investigates the implications of adopting planetary boundaries thinking across disciplines, sectors and activities/applications.
  • The research must connect to several planetary boundaries at the Earth system scale. Research that explores interactions / relations between multiple planetary boundaries will be prioritized.

Submission deadline: October 1, 2026

Information: https://boku.ac.at/fos/themen/ausbildungs-und-graduiertenfoerderung/preise/frontiers-planet-prize

22.06.2026