Borealis Scientific Innovation Award
Borealis created the Scientific Innovation Award to celebrate innovation and to give a platform to ideas with the power to impact the world. We aim to accelerate new ideas, technologies and solutions in the field of sustainable production, design and use of polyolefins.
What Is the Scientific Innovation Award?
As a global industry leader in innovative solutions and technologies, Borealis has already placed sustainability firmly at the core of our business, but we still have work to do.
Each year, we look for pioneering ideas and potential collaboration partners to shape the future of our industry and our planet. We want to hear from bold, disruptive thinkers from the professional and academic scientific communities, from entrepreneurs and start-ups to university researchers, so that together we can re-invent essentials for sustainable living.
Our vision is to lead a sustainable transformation of our industry. Making this a reality will require fresh thinking, so the Award recognizes scientific papers that contribute new ideas to areas of pressing concern.
A panel of high-level Borealis research representatives assesses submissions and chooses the three best ideas from among them which will be honored with the Borealis Scientific Innovation Award.
Watch out for the Borealis Scientific Innovation Awards 2025 – all relevant information on how to apply will be published on this website in due course.
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On December 6, 2024, the Borealis Innovation and Technology team announced the winners of the Borealis Scientific Innovation Award (BSIA) at the Borealis Innovation Day in Linz, Austria. Congratulations to Clement Collins Rice, Elisabetta Carrieri and Esun Selvam for your impressive submissions! To find out more about the winners, check out our media release.
Previous Winners
Since 2008, Borealis has encouraged and rewarded innovative ideas consisting of over 270 applications from students, entrepreneurs and companies across 56 countries.
We are grateful to all applicants who have shared their ideas with us over the years, and we’re particularly proud of our previous award winners. Many have helped shape the work we do at Borealis, and some have even joined us, collaborating with Borealis or becoming members of our teams of scientists to find solutions that help accelerate the journey towards a sustainable future. Others have gone on to have distinguished careers in academia or other areas of industry. Whatever our finalists’ paths, we’re pleased to have been able to celebrate their successes by integrating their ideas and discoveries into our research and projects, and collectively drive sustainable progress for our industry.