Every year VLIZ awards two prizes to reward Master's theses (University or long-type higher education). Both fundamental and applied research topics in all branches of the marine sciences are taken into account. The prizes, amounting to 500 EUR each, are reserved to young researchers who graduated in a Flemish university or high school in the course of the last two years.
Look at the list of former winners of the VLIZ Thesis Awards for Marine Sciences.
Maybe it is your work that will be selected out of the submissions? And it is you who will receive the Award of 500 EUR on the occasion of the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day 2013 on the 15th of February 2013?
More information on the conditions for candidature can be found on the VLIZ website or in the regulations (only available in Dutch).