Awards & Grants

EAA Research Grant

To support researchers to conduct innovative, excellent research into advertising, the European Advertising Academy provides a yearly EAA Research Grant.

The EAA can award a total of € 3,000 each year. Applicants can apply for a maximum of €1,500. This means that the EAA can award at least two research grants each year. If multiple researchers request a smaller amount, more than two grants may be awarded.

Grant criteria

The following conditions must be met for the proposals:

  • The lead applicant of the project must be EAA or EAA / AAA joint member.
  • All EAA of EAA/AAA joint members are eligible to apply as leading or as co-applicant for one grant each year.
  • The funding (up to € 1,500) must be used for research-related expenses.
  • The project needs to be executed (and the funding spent) within one year after the grant decision has been made.
  • Recipients are expected to acknowledge the EAA Research Grant in any publication resulting from the research that was (partly) funded by the grant.
  • The lead applicant of a successful application cannot apply for the following three years as lead applicant.

Application

Each application should include:

  • A short description of the proposed study including the problem statement and relevance of the study.
  • A brief overview of research design and methods.
  • A brief discussion about the fit with EAA / ICORIA.
  • An outline of the budget required with specification of costs.
  • A project timeline.
  • Details about the project team.

The total application length is 2 pages, font 12. You may use the space as you see fit, as long as the information requested above is included.

Applications should be submitted via email to info@icoria.org no later than the conference paper submission deadline. The EAA Research Grants will be awarded during ICORIA.

Selection

The grant decision will be made by a jury of members of the EAA board. The jury selects up to three applicants based on the following evaluation criteria:

  1. Research quality and relevance
  2. Feasibility of the project
  3. Fit with EAA / ICORIA

Check out the list of previous winners of the EAA Research Grant.

ICORIA Student Grant

To encourage young researchers who provide high-quality advertising research, but have limited resources to attend the yearly ICORIA, the European Advertising Academy provides a yearly ICORIA student grant by waiving the conference fee for up to five selected researchers.

Grant criteria

Any researcher, who submitted an original research paper to the yearly ICORIA and plans to present the paper if accepted, is eligible. Applicants who received an ICORIA Grant in previous years will not be funded again and should not apply. Applicants must agree to attend the conference to receive the grant and present the paper cited in the application proposal and accepted for presentation. Recipients are expected to acknowledge the ICORIA Grant if required by a publication outlet.

Application

Each application should include:

  • A “Statement of Purpose” (max 1 page) that makes the case for the applicant’s need of the research grant. The statement should highlight the applicant’s economic situation as a researcher and explain why the applicant requires additional funding to attend ICORIA. The statement needs to indicate the title of the paper that has been submitted to ICORIA.
  • A current CV.

Applications should be submitted via email to info@icoria.org once the applicant has submitted a research paper to ICORIA, but no later than the conference paper submission deadline. Award recipients will be notified in May at the time the decision about the conference paper is out.

Selection

The grant decision will be made by a jury of members of the EAA board. The jury selects up to five applicants based on two evaluation criteria and will consider diversity as a principle:

  1. research quality (i.e., reviewer scores received for the research paper submitted to ICORIA) and
  2. applicant’s need (i.e., arguments outlined in the application letter).

Check out the list of previous winners of the ICORIA Grant.

AAA-EAA Collaborative Research Competition

The American Academy of Advertising – European Advertising Academy Research Competition intends to promote collaborations between the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) and European Advertising Academy (EAA) scholars and advertising professionals, offering funding for research and travel to international conferences (AAA, ICORIA) to present research resulting from those collaborations.

Each award is 3,000 € ($3,250). Any topic that is appropriate for potential publication in the Journal of Advertising (JA), the International Journal of Advertising (IJA), Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising (JCIRA), or Journal of Interactive Advertising (JIA) is eligible for the competition.

Awards are based on a competitive review of research proposals. While members can submit as many single or joint proposals as desired within a given year, authors cannot receive funding for more than one proposal. Based on the reviews, should more than one paper containing an author’s name receive high rankings, only the highest-ranking one will be funded.

More details about requirements of the team and proposal and the procedure can be found in the call for proposals (no calls now, see previous 2026 call).

Check out the list of previous winners AAA-EAA Collaborative Research Competition.

The Flemming Hansen Award

Since 2015, the European Advertising Academy (EAA) assigns the Flemming Hansen Award every second year. This long-term impact award honors a scholar who has made contributions to distinguished scholarship in advertising research. Specifically, the EAA will recognize an author of one or more publications that had a significant impact in the field of advertising. The recipient is invited to the International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) and will receive the award at the gala dinner of the conference.

The EAA will consider self-nomination as well as nomination by another person or organization. All nominees will be considered against the same criteria. The Selection Committee consists of four members which are chosen by the current President of the EAA. She or he selects one jury president and three additional jurors which are past presidents or current members of the EAA. None of the current jury members is nominated him- or herself.

For suggesting a suitable candidate for nomination, one has to submit a nomination letter that includes the candidate’s CV which should describe significant contributions to distinguished scholarship made by the nominee (maximum one page). Nominations for the award must usually be sent by April 1st of the respective award year (odd years) to the EAA Award Manager.

About Flemming Hansen

Flemming Hansen was a marketing research and marketing communication scholar from Denmark who was very successful and influential in both, business and academia. He was a prolific professor at the Copenhagen Business School. In 2002, Flemming Hansen initiated ICORIA with a first and at that time small conference in Copenhagen. He was also one of the founders of the EAA in 2005 and he was the first President of the EAA. He passed away in 2010. In 2014, the EAA decided to name its award after Flemming Hansen.

Flemming Hansen Award Winners

ICORIA best paper award

Each year, the EAA presents the winners of the best conference paper and best student paper of ICORIA.

The complete list of previous winners can be found here.

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