23 / 10 / 2019
Photo: VLIZ (Nick Decombel)
With the contributions and gifts that VLIZ receives within the frame of its philanthropy activities, we want to fund marine research ideas that can contribute to solving a hypothesis-based marine research question. For the call 2020 VLIZ invited for the first time companies from the blue economy to sponsor a BMRI grant. We are honoured to announce that DEME nv sponsors 1 extra BMRI grant.
The overall budget available for the grants is (anno 2020) EUR 10.000 financed by VLIZ philanthropy and EUR 5.000 sponsored by DEME nv. Each grant has a maximum fund of EUR 5.000.
Topics of interest for the VLIZ philanthropy BMRI grants are (amongst others) pollution, ocean and human health, marine biodiversity, climate change, ocean related disasters and marine explorations. The DEME BMRI grant is linked to specific themes belonging to engineering & technology, fisheries & aquaculture sciences, economics, or biological sciences.
The grant can be used to assist PhD students in their lab and/or field work, data acquisition and analysis, visits to other institutes to use specialized facilities, acquisition of equipment or software needed for a certain analysis and so on. The fund cannot be used for personnel costs or to attend conferences.
More information and application form can be found on the VLIZ website.
