InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship

Posted on 02.11.2011 • in Projects

InBev-Baillet Latour Fund

The InBev-Baillet Latour Fund and the International Polar Foundation (IPF) announce the opening of the 2011 Call for Proposals for the InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship.

The Fellowship of €150 000 has been created to promote research activities at, or in the vicinity of, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station.

Princess Elisabeth Station is located in the Sør Rondane Mountain Range, Dronning Maud Land (East-Antarctica). The station lies at 71° 57’ S and 23° 20’ E, 220 km due South from the edge of the ice shelf. Research activities extend also to this coastal area.

The Fellowship is to be disbursed over a two year period to cover two field campaigns in Antarctica (to be carried out in the Antarctic summer seasons of Nov. 2012 – Feb. 2013 and Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2014).

The Fellowship is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers under the age of 35 years, from all over the World.

Please note that the laureate's employer remains his current research organisation.

The InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship is awarded on a yearly basis. The Annual Call for Proposals will list the scientific research areas, themes, or special topics from which proposals are solicited.

The research areas selected for the 2011 Call for Proposals are:

Glaciology,
Microbiology (excluding marine microbiology),
Geology.

Eligible proposals will undergo a two-step evaluation procedure. The first-round evaluation will consist of an evaluation on the basis of scientific merit, carried out by international peer review (scientific Jury). Proposals short-listed by the Jury will undergo a second-round evaluation by the Antarctica Fellowship Committee. This evaluation will consider the more practical aspects of the project, and will result in the selection of the laureate.

Project proposals for the Antarctica Fellowship award (for field research in 2012/2013 and 2013/2014) must reach the Fellowship Secretariat by 1 March 2012 at the latest.

Please read the information file thoroughly (including eligibility criteria) before submitting your application. Applications that are not submitted using the submission form and/or those sent after the deadline will not be taken into consideration.

All submissions should be in English.

Download the poster for the 2011 Call for Proposals.

Previous Laureates

Previous laureates of the Fellowship (formerly open only to researchers registered at a Belgian University or research institute) are:

Dr. Elie Verleyen from the Laboratory of Protistology and Marine Ecology at the University of Ghent for his research project "Delaqua" on microbiological communities.
Dr. Steven Goderis from the Department of Geology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for the "Micrometa" program which aims to gain better insight into the origin and the evolution of planets and our solar system through the study of micrometeorites.

For additional information concerning scientific research carried out at Princess Elisabeth station and logistics at the station, please refer to the station’s website where pictures, videos and news articles are available.

Submitting your project

The International Polar Foundation will be responsible for managing the Call for Proposals and the cycles of evaluation through the Antarctica Fellowship Secretariat. The Antarctica Fellowship Secretariat will coordinate the contacts with the Committee, the Jury and the Jury President.

All submissions should be sent by e-mail to:

Nathalie Van Isacker
fellowship@polarfoundation.org
+32 (0)2 543 06 98

Deadline is March 1st, 2012

Please indicate in the e-mail's subject line "Antarctica Fellowship call 2011" and include the submission file as an attachment to the e-mail. Reception of your dossier by the Fellowship Secretariat will be confirmed by return of e-mail.

Any inquiries regarding the InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship may also be sent to this address.