The Green Food Contest

This is a competition for students who have finished their undergraduate studies from six countries in the Southeast Asia region: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The competition aims to engage students who want to apply their scientific strengths to one of the key sustainability issues facing the food industry: finding plant-based alternatives in relation to mitigating the impact of the current (animal-based) food system. Participants in the competition will have to submit a research proposal with a focus on solving a relevant problem in this field.

The competition is initiated by IMCD: a global leader in the distribution and formulation of specialty ingredients, through its “IMCD Cares” Programme. “IMCD Cares” will offer a scholarship to the winner of this contest to undertake Masters in Plant Biology (by research) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Nuffic Southeast Asia is coordinating the implementation of the competition, including supporting the jury and follow-up support to the winner.

The competition will be open on 5 December 2022 and closed on 5 January 2023 (5pm Singapore time GMT+8).

In addition, the second online info session will be conducted on 16 December 2022. University students and alumni with relevant backgrounds are highly encouraged to attend this session.

For details on the competition, online info session, and how to apply/participate, please visit https://bit.ly/gfc2022 or contact osidharta@nuffic.nl.

Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact: thegreenfoodcontest@gmail.com