Who do we partner with to form
the National Nominating Bodies?

National Nominating Bodies (NNBs)

National Nominating Bodies (NNBs) are universities and research institutions that have agreed to nominate their scientists for the Frontiers Planet Prize. Participating scientists submit their applications directly to their NNB.

Angola

  • Oscar Ribas University

Argentina

  • National University of La Plata

  • Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal

  • National University of the South

  • National Institute of Limnology (INALI)

  • CONICET CCT SALTA - JUJUY

  • CONICET Nordeste

  • University of Buenos Aires

  • CONICET Mendoza

  • CONICET Mar del Plata

  • CONICET Santa Fe

  • CONICET CCT Córdoba

  • Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales

  • Biodiversity and Environment Research Institute

  • Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - Universidad de Buenos Aires

  • National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)

  • INGAR Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño, CONICET, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Australia

  • Australian National University

  • Centre for Marine Socioecology

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)

  • Deakin University

  • Edith Cowan University

  • Flinders University

  • Griffith University

  • James Cook University

  • Murdoch University

  • Monash University

  • Queensland University of Technology

  • Southern Cross University

  • Swinburne University of Technology

  • The University of Sydney

  • University of Adelaide

  • University of Melbourne

  • University of New South Wales

  • University of Tasmania

  • University of Technology Sydney

  • Western Sydney University

  • University of Western Australia

  • Federation University

  • Victoria University

Austria

  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

  • Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)

  • University of Graz

  • University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

  • Vienna University of Technology

Bangladesh

  • University of Dhaka (DU)

Belgium

  • Ghent University

  • KU Leuven

  • Université Catholique de Louvain

  • Université libre de Bruxelles

  • University of Antwerp

  • University of Hasselt

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • University of Mons

Brazil

  • Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)

  • Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

  • Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul

  • Universidade Federal do Paraná

  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Norte

  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

  • Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

  • Universidade Estadual do Maranhão

  • Universidade Federal Fluminense

  • Universidade Federal de Lavras

  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  • Universidade Federal de São Paulo

  • Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

  • Universidade de São Paulo

  • Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

  • Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM)

  • Universidade Federal do Cariri

  • Universidade do Estado do Amazonas

  • State University of Mato Grosso

  • Mackenzie Presbyterian University

  • Instituto Federal de São Paulo

  • Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina (IFSC)

  • Instituto Federal Catarinense

  • Insper

  • Fundação Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

  • Federal University of Santa Maria

  • Federal University of Rondonia

  • Federal University of Itajubá

  • Federal University of Amazonas

  • Federal University of ABC

  • Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

  • Centro de Tecnologias Estratégicas do Nordeste

  • Bahia Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology

  • Federal University of Western Bahia

  • Federal University of Pampa

  • Federal Institute of Minas Gerais

  • Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piaui

  • Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo

  • Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

  • Universidade Federal do Cariri

  • University of Brasilia

  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

  • State University of Ceará

  • State University of Londrina

  • University of Fortaleza

  • National Institute for Space Research

  • Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO

  • Juiz de Fora Federal University

  • São Paulo State University

  • Universidade Estadual Paulista - Unesp

  • Universidade Federal de Alagoas

  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Canada

  • Carleton University

  • Concordia University

  • Dalhousie University

  • Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

  • Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec

  • Laval University

  • McGill University

  • McMaster University

  • Polytechnique Montréal

  • Simon Fraser University

  • Toronto Metropolitan University

  • University of Alberta

  • University of British Columbia

  • University of Calgary

  • University of Manitoba

  • University of Ottawa

  • University of Regina

  • University of Toronto

  • University of Victoria

  • University of Waterloo

  • Western University

  • York University

  • Trent University

  • Wilfrid Laurier University

  • University of Prince Edward Island

China

  • CBAS

  • Fudan University

  • Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Macau University of Science and Technology

  • University of Macau

  • Ocean University of China

  • Southern University of Science and Technology

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • The Education University of Hong Kong

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

  • Tianjin University

  • Tsinghua University

  • Zhejiang University

  • Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

  • City University of Hong Kong

  • Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

  • Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

  • Peking University

Chile

  • Universidad Mayor

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Colombia

  • National University of Colombia

  • Universidad El Bosque

Cuba

  • Centro de Investigaciones de la Economia Mundial

Denmark

  • Aalborg University

  • University of Copenhagen

  • University of Southern Denmark

Egypt

  • Suez Canal University

Ethiopia

  • University of Gondar

  • Ministry of Innovation and Technology

  • St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College

Finland

  • Tampere University

  • University of Helsinki

  • University of Turku

France

  • University of Rennes 1

  • École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université de Lyon

  • École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris

  • Sorbonne Université

  • Montpellier Business School

  • Observatoire de Paris Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

  • Collège de France

  • Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier

  • Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)

  • Institut Universitaire de France

Germany

  • Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

  • Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

  • GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

  • Goethe University Frankfurt

  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

  • Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

  • Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren

  • Humboldt University of Berlin

  • Julius Kühn-Institut

  • Leibniz Association

  • Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research

  • Leibniz Institut für Katalyse

  • Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

  • Leuphana University

  • Osnabrück University

  • RWTH Aachen University

  • Senckenberg Nature Research Society

  • Technical University Dortmund

  • Technische Universitat Braunschweig

  • Technische Universität Dresden

  • Universität Hamburg

  • University of Bayreuth

  • University of Cologne

  • University of Duisburg-Essen

  • University of Giessen

  • University of Konstanz

  • University of Munster

  • University of Potsdam

  • University of Tübingen

  • Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HZ)

  • University of Augsburg

  • Ulm University

  • Freie Universität Berlin

  • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Ghana

  • University of Energy and Natural Resources

  • University of Ghana

Greece

  • National Observatory of Athens

  • Technical University of Crete

  • University of Patras

Hungary

  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics

  • Center for Economic and Regional Studies

  • Institute for Soil Sciences Centre for Agricultural Research

  • HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

  • Balaton Limnological Research Institute, Eötvös Loránd Research Network

  • HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research

  • HUN-REN Wigenr Research Centre for Physics

  • Óbuda University

  • University of Miskolc

  • University of Szeged

  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics

  • Corvinus University of Budapest

  • Budapest Metropolitan University of Applied Sciences

  • HUN-REN Biological Research Centre

  • HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research

Ireland

  • University College Cork

  • University of Limerick

India

  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science

  • Centre for Wildlife Studies

  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

  • Manipal Academy of Higher Education

  • Physical Research Laboratory

  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology

  • University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

  • Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology

  • Centre for Wildlife Studies

  • Wildlife Institute of India

Indonesia

  • University of Brawijaya

Israel

  • Ben-Gurion University

  • Geological Survey of Israel

  • Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute

  • Tel Aviv University

  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)

  • University of Haifa

Italy

  • Anton Dohrn Zoological Station Naples

  • Bruno Kessler Foundation

  • Ca' Foscari University of Venice

  • Enrico Fermi Center for Study and Research

  • Institute of Atmospheric Science and Climate - National Research Council ISAC- CNR

  • International School for Advanced Studies

  • Marche Polytechnic University

  • National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

  • Politecnico di Milano

  • Roma Tre University

  • Scuola Superiore di Catania

  • Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

  • University of Bologna

  • University of Florence

  • University of Milano-Bicocca

  • University of Padua

  • University of Parma

  • University of Trento

  • University of Brescia

  • Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)

Japan

  • Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

  • Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences

  • Okayama University

  • Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

  • Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

  • Tohoku University

  • University of Tokyo

  • University of Tsukuba

  • Hiroshima University

  • Nagasaki University

Jordan

  • Yarmouk University (YU)

Kenya

  • Kenya Institute of Primate Research

Madagascar

  • Laboratoire des RadioIsotopes

Malaysia

  • International Islamic University Malaysia

  • Monash University Malaysia

  • Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

  • Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

  • Universiti Tenaga Nasional

  • Universiti Teknologi MARA

  • Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

  • University Malaysia Perlis

  • University of Malaya

  • WorldFish Malaysia

  • Xiamen University Malaysia

  • Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

  • Sunway University

  • University of Technology Malaysia

  • Malaysian Palm Oil Board

  • Division of Research and Innovation, Universiti Sains Malaysia

  • Multimedia University

Mexico

  • Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

  • Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM)

  • Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Morocco

  • Abdelmalek Essaadi University

  • Hassan Premier University

  • Ibn Tofail University

Nigeria

  • Covenant University

  • Federal University of Health Sciences Otukpp

Norway

  • Norwegian Research Institute

  • SINTEF Ocean

Netherlands

  • Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Leiden University

  • Maastricht University

  • Naturalis Biodiversity Center

  • Netherlands Institute of Ecology

  • Radboud University Nijmegen

  • Tilburg University

  • Universiteit Utecht

  • University of Amsterdam

  • University of Twente

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Wageningen University

  • University of Groningen

  • IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

New Zealand

  • The University of Auckland

  • AgResearch Ltd

  • Auckland University of Technology

  • University of Canterbury

  • Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)

  • New Zealand's Biological Heritage National Science Challenge

  • Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Maori Centre of Research Excellence

  • GNS Science

  • Landcare Research New Zealand

  • Lincoln University

  • Te Wananga o Aotearoa

  • The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd

  • University of Otago

  • University of Waikato

  • Victoria University of Wellington

Nigeria

  • Obafemi Awolowo University

  • Federal Medical Centre Asaba

  • University of Port Harcourt

Pakistan

  • University of Management and Technology, Lahore

  • COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus

Philippines

  • International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

  • Ateneo de Manila University

Poland

  • Kielce University of Technology

  • Jagiellonian University Medical College

  • Marie Curie-Sklodowska University

  • Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation

  • Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences

  • University of Agriculture in Krakow

  • Adam Mickiewicz University

  • Poznan University of Life Sciences

  • Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy

Portugal

  • NOVA University of Lisbon

  • Universidade dos Açores

  • University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)

Romania

  • West University of Timisoara

Singapore

  • National University of Singapore

South Africa

  • Agricultural Research Council of South Africa

  • Durban University of Technology

  • Nelson Mandela University

  • North-West University

  • Sol Plaatje University

  • Srellenbosh University

  • Tshwane University of Technology

  • University of Limpopo

  • University of Cape Town

  • University of Johannesburg

  • University of KwaZulu-Natal

  • University of Mpumalanga

  • University of Pretoria

  • University of South Africa

  • University of the Free State

  • University of the Witwatersrand

  • University of Venda

  • Vaal University of Technology

  • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

  • Rhodes University

  • South African Medical Research Council

South Korea

  • Chung-Ang University

  • Ewha Womans University

  • Hanyang University

  • Kyung Hee University

  • Postech University

  • Yonsei University

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Saudi Arabia

  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  • King Faisal University

Sudan

  • Mycetoma Research Center, University of Khartoum

Senegal

  • Gaston Berger University

Slovenia

  • National Institute of Chemistry

  • National Institute of Biology (NIB)

  • Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Spain

  • Polytechnic University of Madrid

  • Polytechnic University of Valencia

  • Pompeu Fabra University

  • Pontifical University of Salamanca

  • Sevilla University

  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

  • Universidad de Oviedo

  • Universitat Politècnica de València

  • University of Castilla La Mancha

  • University of Navarra

  • University of Santiago Compostela

  • University of Valladolid

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • Universidad Pablo de Olavide

  • University of Almeria

  • University of Valencia

  • University of Vigo

  • University of Zaragoza

  • Univesidad de León

Sweden

  • Chalmers University of Technology

  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  • Linnaeus University

  • Research Institutes of Sweden

  • Umeå University

  • Lund University

Switzerland

  • ETH Zurich

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)

  • Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

  • Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)

  • Université de Fribourg

  • University of Geneva

  • University of Lausanne

  • University of Zurich

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Tanzania

  • Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology

Thailand

  • National Nanotechnology Center

  • National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC)

Tunisia

  • Gabes University

  • National Institute of Research and Physicochemical Analysis

  • University of Sfax

Turkey

  • Hacettepe University

  • Ankara University

  • Istanbul University

United Arab Emirates

  • University of Sharjah

United Kingdom

  • Babraham Institute

  • Bournemouth University

  • British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

  • British Geological Survey, The Lyell Centre

  • Cardiff University

  • Cranfield University

  • Heriot-Watt University

  • Imperial College London

  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee

  • Keele University

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

  • Loughborough University

  • Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Newcastle University

  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory

  • Rothamsted Research

  • Swansea University

  • Scottish Association For Marine Science

  • Ulster University

  • University College London

  • University of Cambridge

  • University of Birmingham

  • University of Bristol

  • University of Dundee

  • University of East Anglia

  • University of Exeter

  • University of Glasgow

  • University of Kent

  • University of Leicester

  • University of Manchester

  • University of Nottingham

  • University of Oxford

  • University of Plymouth

  • University of Reading

  • University of Salford

  • University of Sheffield

  • University of Southampton

  • University of Stirling

  • University of Surrey

  • University of Strathclyde

  • University of Sussex

  • University of Edinburgh

  • University of York

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute

  • UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)

  • University of Brighton

  • School of Life Sciences and the Environment, Royal Holloway University of London

  • University of Leeds

  • School of Oriental and African Studies

United States of America

  • American University

  • Argonne National Laboratory (DOE)

  • Arizona State University

  • Appalachian State University

  • Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture

  • Amherst College

  • Brown University

  • Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

  • California Institute of Technology

  • Carnegie Institution for Science

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Case Western Reserve University

  • City College of New York

  • Columbia University

  • Conservation International

  • Colorado School of Mines

  • Colorado State University

  • Cornell University

  • Dartmouth College

  • Florida International University

  • Field Museum of Natural History

  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)

  • Graduate Center The City University of New York

  • Harvard University

  • HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

  • Indiana University

  • Iowa State University of Science and Technology

  • Johns Hopkins University

  • Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School

  • Loyola University Chicago

  • Michigan State University

  • New York University

  • North Carolina State University

  • Northeastern University

  • Oregon State University

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE)

  • Ohio State University

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)

  • Princeton University

  • Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SI)

  • Southern Research Station, Forest Service (USDA)

  • Santa Fe Institute

  • Tufts University

  • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Universities Space Research Association (USRA)

  • University at Albany

  • University at Buffalo

  • University of California, Berkeley

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • University of California, Los Angeles

  • University of California, San Diego

  • University of Chicago

  • University of Colorado Boulder

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • University of Arizona, Research, Innovation & Impact

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  • University of Maryland Foundation, Inc

  • University of Minnesota

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • University of Notre Dame

  • University of Oregon

  • University of Pennsylvania

  • University of Pittsburgh

  • University of Rhode Island

  • University of Rochester

  • University of Utah

  • University of Virginia

  • University of Washington

  • University of Southern California

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • University of Houston

  • University of Kansas

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • University of Miami

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • University of New Hampshire

  • University of Michigan

  • Wake Forest University

  • University of Vermont

  • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Wayne State University

  • Western Michigan University

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  • William and Mary

  • Howard University

  • Oakland University

  • Duke University

  • University of Oklahoma

  • San Diego State University

  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

United Arab Emirates

  • Zayed University

Vietnam

  • University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City

International Scientific Partners

We partner with university associations and international unions across all relevant scientific disciplines, who support in promoting the prize across their membership body to widen the call for participation

  • Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)

  • International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

  • International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR)

  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

In cases where a country does not have its own NRB, the International Science Council acts as the de facto NRB. The International Science Council also acts as the NRB for the Global South.