The Honorable Barnaby Joyce, Minister for Agriculture, has declared the Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry open for grant applications.
The terms of application necessitate that all applicants must be between 18-35 years of age in order to apply for a grant that amounts up to $22,000.
According to the Department of Agriculture, the goal of the Science Awards is to stimulate and encourage science, innovation, and new technology in rural industries, as well as to help launch the careers of young innovators and scientists by recognizing their work on a nation-wide scale.
Science Award recipients undertake original projects with the sole aim of keeping Australia’s rural industries sustainable and profitable.
The Awards have thus far financed more than one hundred and eighty young Australian innovators and scientists by turning their ideas into reality and showcasing their innovations to the world.
The Science Awards are broken up into eleven industry categories, all open for applications: biosecurity, cotton, dairy, fisheries and aquaculture, grains, viticulture and oenology, red meat processing, pork, new and emerging rural industries, meat and livestock and wool.
Each of the eleven categories warrants a grant of up to $22,000 funded by the research and development corporations which are the main benefactors of the Science Awards.
In addition, there is also a special Science Award intended for one outstanding project– the Minister for Agriculture Award. The winner of this award is provided with additional funds in order to extend the project.
All applications from each category including the Minister for Agriculture Award are assessed by a panel of industry representatives convened by each of the Science Award partners to judge all submitted applications.
The deadline for submitting application closes on November 8 2013, at 5 pm.
For more details visit the Department of Agriculture’s website here.
