The Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia Study Award was awarded from 2018 to 2022 to italian post-graduate students and young resourchers dealing with women and gender studies in academia.

The initiative, promoted by the Elena Cornaro University Centre was connected to the celebrations of the 800 years of uninterrupted life of the University of Padua in 2022 and was named after Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the young scholar who graduated in phylosophy at the University of Padua on 25 June 1678, becoming the world's first woman to graduate. 

The prize was sponsored by Associazione Alumni, Associazione degli amici dell'Università di Padova and Solgar Italia Multinutrient spa, in order to award research works highlighting the role of women in the academic sistem and their contribution to the dissemination of knowledges or proposing a gender or feminist perspective on scientific and humanistic studies. 

In its five editions the Prize was awarded to:

Francesca Guidolin (University of Padua): University teaching and women. The Paduan case of the Faculty of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences between the fifties and the seventies;

Valentina Bortolami (University of Padua): "In Defiance of Nature". Sexual categories testing intersex in the work of Anne Fausto-Sterling;

Giulia Comunale (University of Padua): Lumped-Parameter Models for Congenital Diseased and Sex-Specific Cardiovascular Circulations;

Chiara Xausa (University of Bologna): Feminist Environmental Humanities: Threading Theory and Speculative Fiction;

Alessandro Fabris (University of Padua): Algorithmic Fairness Datasets: Curation, Selection, and Applications.

Honorable mentions were also provided for the best research works in the field of neutraceticals.

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