In 2020 Ciao Table created Social Research Prize, an international prize awarded to female researchers for scientific studies investigating processes of socialization, inclusion and social exclusion and the factors that promote them. With an innovative formula, the prize consists of a work of art assigned to the Institute to which the researcher recipient of the prize belongs; in fact, research is always the outcome of a process to which the scientific community to which it belongs contributes.

Since 2023, the prize has been awarded in collaboration with the Equal Opportunities Service of the University of Italian Switzerland.

The Social Research Prize is given to a different country each year. The first edition of the prize was awarded to the University of Lugano for innovative neuroscientific research on social inclusion conducted by Rosalba Morese, who in the following years accepted the role of the “godmother” of the award.

The award was a valuable work by painter Renzo Ferrari.

In 2021 Ciao Table awarded the University of Vienna for studies of Giorgia Silani on the processes underlying the neurobiological basis of social cognition, emotions and behavior. The prizes consisted of a valuable work by painter Enzo Tomaso Oliva.

The Social Research Prize 2022, the third edition of the prize, a valuable work by Piedmontese painter Angela Policastro, was awarded to the University of Amsterdam for innovative studies on understanding social actions and behavior carried out by Valeria Gazzola, Associate Professor at Department of Psychology.

The Social Research Prize 2023, the fourth edition of the prize, a valuable work by painter Melita Cavallo, was awarded to the University of Cambridge for the groundbreaking studies on the social brain in adolescence carried out by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor at Department of Psychology.