Awards and prizes for students
Win an award with your master thesis! Check for which prizes you can apply.
Aquaculture
INVE award
- Amount: 2x € 1.000
- Info & deadline
- Awarded on the graduation ceremony
Computational biology
BioLizard award
- Amount: € 1.000
- Info & deadline
- Awarded on the graduation ceremony
Chemistry
DOW award
- Subject: green chemistry
- Amount: € 900
- How to apply?
- You need a recommendation by your promotor
- Send the following items to chris.stevens@ugent.be before 15 August:
- Abstract of your thesis in 2 pages
- Your thesis in pdf
- Awarded on the graduation ceremony
INEOS-prijs
- Subject: green chemistry
- Amount: € 1.500
- How to apply?
- You need a recommendation by your promotor
- Send the following items to chris.stevens@ugent.be before 15 August:
- Abstract of your thesis in 2 pages
- Your thesis in pdf
- Awarded on the graduation ceremony
Sustainable development
Encon sustainability award
- Subject: solution to the climate crisis or social problems, sustainability in general
- Amount: € 2.500
- Deadline: 30 September
- Application info
FUTUREproef Award
- Amount: € 500
- Deadline: October
- Application info
Prix ingénieurs sans frontières
- Subject: Sustainable development: social, economical or environmental impact
- Amount: € 500
- Application info
- Deadline: 1 October
India
Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Emirates Scriptum Award
- Subject: Socio-economic bilateral relations between Belgium and India
- Amount: € 1.000 + 2 returntickets Belgium-India
- Application info
- Deadline: 1 October
Food science
Vandemoortele Healthy Foods Award
- Subject: healthy foods
- Amount: € 1.000
- How to apply?
- Send your thesis and a motivation letter to Prof. Filip Van Bockstaele: filip.vanbockstaele@ugent.be before 1 September
- More information: vandemoortele.ugent.be
- Awarded on the graduation ceremony
Other awards
In addition to the prizes mentioned above, you are also eligible for other prizes for which you cannot apply yourself. A jury selects the winner(s) from all master's theses. These prizes are awarded at the graduation ceremony.
These prizes include:
Bayer Award
- Subject: plant research
- Amount:
- 1st award: € 500 + € 500 to be spent during a PhD track
- 2nd award: € 500
VLIR-UOS Aquaculture Alumni Award
- For whom? Master of Science in Aquaculture
- Amount: € 1.000