Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Youth Award 2025 – Opportunity Desk – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Applications are invited for the GBEP Youth Award 2025. The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Youth Award seeks to acknowledge and promote excellent analysis within the discipline of bioenergy carried out by college students and early-profession researchers. This award focuses on numerous areas together with environmental, social and financial sustainability, round bioeconomy, bioenergy applied sciences, provide chain logistics, coverage improvement, societal practices and addressing local weather change.

For the 2025 version, the chosen awardee may have the chance to current their analysis throughout a particular session on the twelfth GBEP Bioenergy Week, going down in Kampala, Uganda. The awardee may even obtain their award certificates and have the chance to current their work at different related worldwide occasions co-organized by GBEP all through 2025.

Focus on Africa

This yr, the 2025 Award is concentrated solely on Africa. Africa is a continent brimming with potential for bioenergy options that may remodel lives and communities. The GBEP Youth Award is assigned within the context of the GBEP Bioenergy Weeks, held yearly in a distinct area of the world.

The twelfth GBEP Bioenergy Week will happen in Kampala, Uganda—a rustic with rising bioenergy potential. Therefore, the 2025 GBEP Youth Award is open solely to college students or early-profession researchers from African universities, showcasing the abilities and contributions of younger individuals on the continent.

Whether you’re pursuing an undergraduate, grasp’s or PhD diploma, the GBEP Youth Award is your alternative to step into the highlight and reveal how your analysis could make a difference. If you aren’t eligible this yr, keep tuned for future editions, which is able to give attention to completely different areas!

Eligibility

• Applicants should be present college students (Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD) at a acknowledged establishment or current graduates who accomplished their analysis and graduated after December 2024. 
• Bachelor’s and Master’s college students: Must be 30 years previous or youthful.
• PhD college students: Must be 35 years previous or youthful.

Selection Criteria

Applications shall be evaluated primarily based on the next key standards:

• Validity of outcomes (25%)
• Quality and readability of presentation (25%)
• Degree of innovation (25%)
• Relevance to the scientific and improvement group (25%)

Application

To apply, candidates should submit the next by 30 April 2025 to [email protected]:

• Completed application form;
• Curriculum Vitae (CV);
• Proof of pupil standing
  • Current college students should present documentation confirming their enrollment (e.g., certificates of enrollment) or for current graduates, a certificates of commencement or proof of analysis completion (graduates will need to have accomplished their research in December 2024 or later).
• Research poster
  • The poster ought to visually summarize the analysis, together with the context, methodology, outcomes, conclusions and its broader relevance to the bioenergy discipline.
  • Poster necessities: Posters should be legible at A0 measurement (84.1 × 118.9 cm) and will embody a ten cm clean white ribbon on the backside for show functions. The poster shall be evaluated primarily based on the readability and presentation of concepts.

For extra data, go to GBEP Youth Award.