Deadline: 14 June 2018
Open to: young PhD and postdoc researchers from any background and nationality
Grant: EUR 20.000 research grant applied to a one-year investigation
Description
The 2018 BCFN YES! Research Grant Competition invites young Ph.D. and postdoc researchers from any background and nationality to submit a research project to improve the sustainability of the food system. The BCFN YES! Research Grant Competition offers the opportunity to put into action concrete proposals that will have the objective of making more sustainable the agri-food system (in terms of environmental, social, health and/or economic aspects) and coherent with the BCFN research projects. Research proposals are to be proposed in one or more of the following areas:
- Sustainable and healthy dietary patterns;
- Sustainable agriculture;
- Food security.
The competition encourages research ideas that might be considered groundbreaking with the potential to be of high impact for the sustainability of the agri-food system and the implementation of the SDGs, and the review will be weighted to this innovation factor.
Eligibility
- The 2018 BCFN YES! Research Grant Competition invites young Ph.D. and postdoc researchers from any background and nationality to submit a research project to improve the sustainability of the food system;
- The 2018 BCFN YES! is designed for individual or multidisciplinary and cross-national research teams of a maximum of three components. The Competition encourages the participation of teams from different disciplines and countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches;
- Applicants who are currently pursuing doctoral degrees are eligible, as well as researchers with a completed Ph.D. All applicants must be/have enrolled after January 1st, 2012, included;
- All participants must be under the age of 35 at the date of November 28, 2018.
BCFN encourages submission of:
- Either new or ongoing research projects;
- Either unfunded proposals projects that are co-financed by a research institute, trust, foundation, university, private companies, venture capital funds, angel investors.
Grant
- The award is an EUR 20.000 research grant applied to a one-year investigation;
- A maximum of three teams will be awarded the research grant.
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