The Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso awards the Daniel Carasso Fellowship to outstanding early-stage researchers engaged in the promotion of sustainable food systems and diets. The Fellowship consists of a research career development grant to carry out a research project at a Spanish university or research centre (public or private non-profit).
Each fellowship provides a grant of €160,000 to cover the salary of the awardee and to support research activities over a 24-month period. The grant will be transferred to the host university/research centre through an agreement between the centre and the Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso.
With this initiative, the Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso seeks an opportunity to attract and consolidate research talent in Spain. This program will contribute to develop young researchers’ careers whose contribution is essential for the transition towards a more sustainable food systems and diets. You can find further information about this initiative in the rules for the call (below) and in the Daniel Carasso Fellowship platform.
- Desired skills and experience
· Researchers of any nationality with 2 – 7 years of experience after completing their PhD. This means that the date of their doctoral thesis defences should fall between 20 January, 2018 and 20 January, 2023. Notwithstanding the above, candidates whose date of PhD completion is outside this timeframe, due to justified reasons, will be also considered.
· Researchers from any area of study with an outstanding track record and who are contributing actively to the transition to the sustainability of food systems through the application of interdisciplinary and multidimensional approaches (e.g. agronomy, biology, health, economics, political and social sciences, arte, engineering, architecture…).
· The candidates must be nominated by an established researcher. Nominators undertake to provide the necessary means for the awardee’s integration into a research group. The rules establish that a nominator can only nominate one candidate, and each candidate can only be nominated by one nominator. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
- About the Foundation
The Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso is a family foundation established in 2010, placed under the aegis of the Fondation de France. The Foundation is active in two focus areas: Sustainable Food, for universal access to healthy food that is safe for people and ecosystems; and Art & Citizenship, to develop critical thinking and reinforce social bonds.
We aspire to a transformation for a greener, more inclusive and fulfilling society. We believe in a society where people and the Earth are the core focus, and where engagement and caring are encouraged. In our view, Art & Citizenship and Sustainable Food contribute to this desirable future by allowing everyone to take action at their own level and together, to bring about change.
The Foundation supports projects in France and Spain by providing financial resources (grants and impact investments); leveraging human resources (expertise, assistance, training, networking); and designing and developing actions (programmes, events and publications). To foster the emergence of innovative solutions, we support a broad diversity of people and projects along the transition pathway, thereby encouraging interaction between disciplines and approaches. Through our support for mediation and citizen participation, we build bridges between individuals to nurture curiosity and encourage engagement. Driven by social impact, we base our action on research, empirical knowledge, experimentation, evaluation and shared learning.
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