To promote the participation of young researchers (under 40 years old) in its congresses, SIBE established a prize of 500 euros for the best scientific paper published (or in press) in the two-year period preceding the congress. In some cases the best talk has been awarded. Assignees: 2024 - Michele Castelli (UniPV) 2022 - Giobbe Forni and Jacopo Martelossi (UniBO) 2019 - Beniamino Tuliozi (UniPD) 2017 - Francesca Tassi (UniFE) and Emiliano Trucchi (Uni Oslo) 2015 - Anna Sandionigi (UniMIB) and Emanuele Fasola (CESAM) 2014 - Emiliano Trucchi (Uni Oslo) 2008 - Paolo Gratton (UniSapienza) 2006 - Marco Archetti (Uni Oxford) 2006 - Claudia Aqusiti (MPI Koln) 2005 - Lino Ometto (Uni Munich)

SIBE established from 2019 the "Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza" Award, in memory of the distinguished Italian geneticist whose creativity and intelligence had an incredible impact in many fields of Evolutionary Biology. Assignees: 2024 - Prof. Tanja Stadler (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) 2022 - Prof. Rasmus Nielsen (University of California, Berkeley) 2019 - Prof. Montgomery Slatkin (University of California, Berkeley)

One of the SIBE missions is the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the broad public. The prize is dedicated to Silvia Paolucci and her love for evolutionary biology and scientific communication. The award amounts to 500 and and is given to the best product for science dissemination and outreach realized in the previous two years. Assignees: 2024 - Sara Verni and Veronica Pia, for the project "The Whale Fall - Vita e Morte di una Balena" 2022 - Víctor Hugo Muñoz-Mora, for the video “ENDEMIXIT - Population Genomics of Italian Endemics” 2019 - Agnese Sonato, for her project “EVOLUTION, a surprising journey” 2008 - Mauro Mandrioli e Lino Ometto (Luisa Bozzi Price)

With the aim to stimulate interest and research relating to the Evolutionary Medicine, SIBE assignes the “Doctor Darwin” Prize for the best scientific paper or oral presentation on this topic to a young SIBE members (up to 35 years old). The award, that consists in the amount of € 1.000, is sponsored entirely by our member Giacinto Libertini. Assegnatari: 2024 - Giorgia Modenini (UniBO) 2022 - Gregorio Oxilia (UniBO) 2019 - Federica Pierini (Uni Paris-Saclay) 2017 - Francesco Asnicar (UniTN) 2015 - Michela Leonardi (Uni Copenhagen)