VLIZ Awards for Marine Sciences: call 2019 launched


Also in 2019 the Flanders Marine Institute organizes its three scientific prizes. Here the laureates of previous edition. Photo: VLIZ (Stefanie Reynaert)

VLIZ Professional Bachelor Thesis Award 2019
Every year, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) awards a prize to a professional bachelor thesis. Both fundamental and applied research in all branches of marine sciences is taken into consideration. The prize amounts to 500 EUR each and is reserved to young researchers who have successfully graduated as a professional bachelor from a Flemish college in the past two years (2018 or 2019), or to Flemish young researchers who, in the past two years (2018 or 2019) graduated from an international university of college. [More information] [Regulations] [Online registration]

VLIZ Master Thesis Awards 2019
Every year, VLIZ rewards two master theses. Both fundamental and applied research in all branches of marine sciences is taken into consideration. The prizes amount to 500 EUR each and are reserved to young researchers who graduated from a Flemish university in the past two years (2018 or 2019), or to Flemish young researchers who, in the past two years (2018 or 2019) graduated from an international university of college. [More information] [Regulations] [Online registration]

The VLIZ North Sea Award 2019
VLIZ awards an annual scientific prize to foster recent and original fundamental or applied research on the structure, operation and/or sustainable management of the ecosystem of the North Sea, with special attention to the shallow coastal areas and estuaries of the Southern Bight and the English Channel. The contribution has to be of postgraduate or postdoctoral level, referring to a maximum of three years of postdoctoral research since obtaining the PhD. The researcher or research team active and residing in a country by the North Sea. The prize amounts to 1 000 EUR and is indivisible. [More information] [Regulations] [Online registration]