Royal Society Te Apārangi · NZ · nz-te-aparangi

Frontiers Planet Prize

The Frontiers Planet Prize is an international prize established by the Frontiers Research Foundation to accelerate scientific solutions to planetary challenges. Royal Society Te Apārangi, as the National Representative Body for Aotearoa New Zealand, selects up to three national winners each year to put forward to the international Frontiers Prize jury. The prize is based on the nine planetary boundaries and aims to mobilize scientists to address the global environmental crisis. International Champions each receive 1 million Swiss francs to support their continuing research.

Up to CHF 1,000,000 Rolling

Official page ↗

Data last verified 2026-08-14 · sources & verification

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Applicant type

Individual, Research Institute

Institution type

Research Institute

Host country

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

Scientists from all disciplines are eligible, as long as their articles were accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in the two years prior to 31 October of the current year. Their research must have the potential to generate breakthroughs that could be scaled up as solutions to global environmental challenges. Research organisations must first register as a National Nominating Body.

Deadline

Rolling / ongoing

Application form effort

1 form file(s) downloaded; 5 explicit questions; 10 writing prompts; 55 fields/sections; heavy — expect a full proposal pack

Marsden Fund 2026 guidelines (webdev mirror — main site is Cloudflare-gated) (37 pages)

Sample questions

their own point of view. Could the association be perceived as a conflict of interest?
Does the decision (yes/no to relevance) seem appropriate?
capability development?
that budget for Māori involvement, capability development and consultation?
How do I decide whether to include a Vision Mātauranga statement in my proposal?

Application form preview sample questions, page & word limits from the application form Back to browse

Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated item	Value in this record	Source
Funding agency	Royal Society Te Apārangi	www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Country / funding source	NZ · nz-te-aparangi	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Deadline	Rolling — no fixed deadline — official page lists it as rolling/ongoing	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Funding amount	Up to CHF 1,000,000	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Eligibility	4 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Official opportunity page ↗
Application form: Marsden Fund 2026 guidelines (webdev mirror — main site is Cloudflare-gated) — download ↗ (37 pp)

Not captured / obstacles

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.