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We are inviting applications for the 2018 Foods Travel Awards for junior investigators. The applicants will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of ...
foods We are inviting applications for the 2018 Foods Travel Awards for junior investigators. The applicants will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field of food. Two Awards will be made this year. Each Award will consist of (1) an electronic certificate; (2) a travel award of 800 US Dollars to be used to allow the winner to attend a food-related conference at which they are presenting a paper or poster; (3) a full publication fee waiver for a paper based on the data presented at the conference they attend, provided the text is presented for publication before December 2019. The paper will be subject to the normal peer review process in our journal.

2018 T R AV E L

AWARDS

FOR JUNIOR INVESTIGATORS

Eligibility Criteria: –– Applicants should have been awarded their PhD degree no earlier than 1 July, 2013 and should be conducting research in the food area . –– The investigator must be registered to attend and present an oral talk or poster at an international food conference/congress, which will be held between October 2018 and September 2019. Furthermore, when attending the conference, the winners are required to place a badge on the poster/talk slide to acknowledge the Foods Award. Application Support Material Should Include: –– A copy of the current CV (basic personal information, publications, received awards, etc.); –– A one‐page statement on the importance of their research and the potential impact on the area of interest; –– The abstract to be presented (oral or poster) at the nominated conference; –– A one‐page statement on the importance of the proposed conference to their research in the food area, as well as the conference name. Please send your application (in English) to the Foods Editorial Office at [email protected] by 30 July, 2018. The winners will be announced on the Foods website before October 2018.

Foods Editorial Office St. Alban-Anlage 66 CH-4052, Basel, Switzerland

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