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Awards and prizes for students

Win an award with your master thesis and/or results! Check for which prizes you can apply.

Apply as an FBW student for the following master's thesis awards

Data Analysis & Mathematical Modelling

BioLizard Award for Master's Thesis

Chemistry

Dow Chemical Prize for Sustainable Chemistry 2026

  • Eligible students: MA Chemistry and Bioprocess Technology, MA Environmental Technology, MA Cell and Gene Biotechnology, MA Circular Bioprocess Technology
  • Prize: € 400
  • Deadline: 22 August 2026
    (Please consult your promotor about submitting your master's thesis)
  • Discover how you can participate here
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Nutrition

Vandemoortele Plant-based Foods Award

  • Eligible students: MA Bioscience Engineering, MA Biosciences, MA Bio-Industrial Sciences, MA Food Technology or equivalent
  • Subject: plant-based, sustainable and healthy food
  • Prize: € 1,000
  • Deadline: 31 August 2026
  • Discover how you can participate here
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Other awards in which an FBW student is selected by a jury

ABIG Prize

  • Eligible students: FBW bio-engineering and industrial engineering students
  • Prize for outstanding commitment and academic success
  • Prize: 2 × € 750
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

AM-Team Master's Thesis Prize

  • Best master's thesis in the Master's in Circular Bioprocess Technology at UGent, Campus Kortrijk
  • Prize: € 250
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Bayer Award

  • Eligible students: FBW bio-engineering and industrial engineering students
  • Best master's thesis in plant research
  • Prize:
  • 1st prize: € 500 + € 500 to be spent during a PhD in plant research
  • 2nd prize: € 500
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Biotalys Prize

  • Eligible students: Industrial Engineering in Biochemistry
  • Student with the best academic results
  • Prize: € 500
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Fermentatio Prize

  • Eligible students: FBW bio-engineering and industrial engineering students
  • Best master's thesis in malting and brewing technology
  • Prize: 2 × € 150
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Fevia Flanders Prize

  • Eligible students: Master's students in Biosciences, specialising in the food industry
  • Best academic results
  • Prize: € 350
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

KVCV Prize (Royal Flemish Chemical Society)

  • Eligible students: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
  • Most deserving graduating student
  • Laureate receives: a certificate and a book related to chemistry in a light-hearted way, one year of free KVCV membership and one year of all issues of the trade magazine C2W
  • Info
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

SINReM Student Award

  • Eligible students: International Master in Sustainable and Innovative Natural Resource Management
  • Prize: € 750
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

IMSOGLO Student Award

  • Eligible students: International Master in Soils and Global Change, based on academic performance and social engagement
  • Prize: € 500
  • One award for each specialisation
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

VLIR-UOS Aquaculture Alumni Award

  • Eligible students: Master of Science in Aquaculture
  • Prize: € 1,000
  • Awarded during the graduation ceremony

Other awards

ie-net Awards

  • Eligible students: all civil, bio- and industrial engineers
  • Prize: € 1,000, € 500, € 250, press award and public award
  • Deadline: 4 October 2026
  • Info

UGent FuturePROEF Award

Flemish Dissertation Prize

The Animal Welfare Award

Thesis Prize for Organic Farming and Agro-ecology

  • Prize: 1st prize: € 800; 2nd prize: € 200
  • Deadline: 31 October 2026
  • Info

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