When I found, to my surprise, that the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence came with a substantial monetary award, I hit upon the idea of using that money to fund a new award for young researchers in the constraints community. I proposed this to the Association for Constraint Programming, who agreed and worked out the details. Today they have published the first call for nominations for an annual ACP Early Career Research Award. The award will come with a $500 prize and free registration for the CP Conference, where the winner will be invited to give a plenary talk. There seems to me to be a nice “symmetry” in an award based on “an entire career” being used to establish an “early career” award.