Deadline: 31 December 2015
The Orskov Foundation is currently accepting applications to support students in low & middle income countries by providing them its grants. The student grants will help individual students to cover training needs and support a focused programme of community projects in Malawi, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Cambodia.
Preference will be given to support training aimed at sustainable land use problems with an emphasis on animal, plant and soil interactions, where it can be demonstrated that, in addition to contributing to knowledge, they will
- have the potential to alleviate poverty and
- provide sustainable environmental benefits, including adaptation/mitigation to the impact of climate change.
Focus countries
- Malawi
- Rwanda
- Indonesia
- Cambodia
Grants Available
The Trustees will only consider projects with a budget up to a maximum of £2,500. This is the upper limit, not an indication that you should request this amount.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are invited from students registered at university in a country classified by the UN as lower middle income, or low-income.
- Applications must demonstrate the potential to alleviate poverty and/or provide sustainable environmental benefits.
- Applications seeking funding for equipment, or attendance at conferences, will NOT be funded.
- Applications seeking funding to cover the costs of complete Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate courses, or parts of Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate courses will NOT be funded.
- Applications seeking funding to cover the costs of Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate research projects will NOT be funded.
- Applications must be studying degrees related to agriculture, land use or the environment.
- The student grants are only provided to help support costs of training at a university or similar organisation other than the university/college in which you are registered at the time of the application.
- Eligible students MUST be registered for graduate degrees and MUST be able to demonstrate that they have full support from the relevant university department/organisation that they are seeking training from.
How to Apply
- Application for INDIVIDUAL STUDENT funding can be downloaded as a Word file which can be submitted via email.
- All the applications must be submitted in English. Projects will be selected by an open application process and grants will be awarded in March/April.
Note: Please do not send any additional documentation, such as exam results, CVs, letters of support, etc. These will not be used in the evaluation of your application. Appropriate references will be sought for student applications that pass the evaluation stage.
For more information, please visit Orskov Foundation Grants 2015.
