ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Prize aims to recognise initiatives in favour of the human dignity of those who suffer from mental disorders carried out from a scientific perspective. Bridging rational thinking and respect towards those who suffer mental illnesses is the goal of the award. At the same time the award will recognise the contributions to therapeutic advances for those who suffer from mental illness.

The Prize has already been given in two occasions, starting in 2008 with Prof. John Nash, in 2010 with Prof. Jules Angst and Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj .

Application field: Psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health
Frequency: The awards will be given every two years

• Psychiatrists, mental health staff, researchers in the field of psychiatry and of neuroscience can be nominated to be candidates to the prize
  
  
• Candidates to/for the prize can be proposed by institutions pertaining to the field of psychiatry, neuroscience and/or mental health, from any part of the world.
  
  
• Proposals will be formalized through electronic mail to: secretariat@fundacionlopezibor.es. Only those proposal received in an electronic format and sent via e-mail will be accepted.
  
  
• Proposals have to be sent in English.
  
  
• Proposals must include a reasoned report and a written confirmation of the acceptance of the candidate (attached), a written confirmation of acceptance of the Institution chosen to share the Prize with (attached), as well as a CV of the candidate.
  

• In order to facilitate the selection process candidates should send papers published during the last five years and a brief summary of achievements in the field (roughly 2 pages Din-A4).
  
  
• Deadline for the submission of proposals will be SUNDAY, APRIL 15th, 2012.
  
  
• If, in the opinion of the Jury, no papers of sufficient merit are submitted, it reserves itself the right to present no award.

• The International Juan José López Ibor Prize will be awarded nominal and exclusively to one person or institution.
  
  
• The award will consist of a diploma, a token and forty thousand euros for the awardee and for an institution that the awardee will freely choose, split into equal parts.

• The award will consist of a diploma, a token and forty thousand euros for the awardee and for an institution that the awardee will freely choose, split into equal parts.

ASSESSMENT, RESOLUTION AND PRIZE-GIVING:

Proposals will be assessed by an international jury made up of professionals of recognized prestige from the psychiatric field. For this edition the following Jury has been set up:

Hagop Akiskal: Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the International Mood Center. Department of Psychiatry. University of California, San Diego.

Jules Angst: Profesor Emérito de Psiquiatría de la Universidad de Zurich (Suiza) y Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Heidelberg, Alemania. Galardonado con el Premio Internacional Juan José López Ibor 2010

Marianne Kastrup: Director of the Center for Transcultural Psychiatry. Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhaguen.

Juan José López-Ibor: President of the Foundation; Head and Director of the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health. Hospital Clínico San Carlos. Complutense University of Madrid. Past–President of the World Psychiatric Association.

Ahmed Okasha: Professor of Psychiatry. Ain Shams University (Cairo). President Egyptian Association of Psychiatry. Past–President of the World Psychiatric Association.

Jiří Raboch: Co-President, International Congress of the World Psychiatric Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-21 October, 2012. Director, Department of Psychiatry. Hospital Universitario General. 1ª Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Charles y Hospital General de la Facultad, Praga, República Checa.

Pedro Ruíz: President of the World Psychiatric Association. Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami, Miller Faculty of Medicine, Miami, Florida, EE.UU.

André Joubert: Lundbeck Institute.

• The Jury of the Prize will meet to select the awarded candidate, who will be announced immediately afterwards in the web-page of the Foundation. Besides the President of the Foundation will directly inform this resolution to the awardee.
  
  
• Previous to the definitive and final announcement of the decision, both the candidate and the institution chosen by him/her to share the prize, should give their authorization in written.
  
  
• The prize will be delivered during a ceremony to take place during the International Congress of the World Psychiatric Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-21 October. The awardee commits him/herself to deliver a special lecture during this congress.
  
  
• The institution chosen by the awardee commits itself to send a certification in-written to the López-Ibor Foundation stating that the monetary amount received has been duly assigned to the accounts of the receiving institution. The Institution commits itself also to visibly name in their web-page (if available) this donation.