Idagaard thesis prize
Idagaardfonden invites submissions of Master’s theses written on topics related to these aims, where up to 3 theses each year will be awarded a “Gold Medal” and 50.000 kr.
Idagaardfonden (founded in 1929 by Jens Hvidbjerg) supports agricultural research, including but not limited to research on crop production, and with the specific aim of supporting research that can improve the production conditions and the profitability of Danish agriculture.
Idagaardfonden invites submissions of Master’s theses written on topics related to these aims, where up to 3 theses each year will be awarded a “Gold Medal” and 50.000 kr. The conclusions from each nominated thesis should be relevant for practitioners and must be made publicly available, and thus cannot contain confidential material. For inspiration, some relevant overall topics, all focusing on Danish agriculture, could be:
- Competitiveness
- Adaptation to climate change
- Optimization of output value
- Industry structure
- Ownership and/or financing structures
- Succession planning
- Efficiency improvements
All relevant university departments, including but not limited to the Department of Food and Resource Economics as well as the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences from the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Agroecology as well as the Department of Animal Science from Aarhus University are encouraged to each select up to 5 of their best theses from a given academic year, written on topics relevant to this prize and which must have been awarded a mark of 10 or 12. For GDPR reason the student must give written consent before the thesis is nominated. The nominated theses from the past academic year should be submitted to Idagaardfonden (post@idagaardfonden.dk) by October 1 each year.
The nominees must fill in this form, where they themselves can explain how the work in the thesis can contribute to improving profitability in Danish agriculture (which is the underlying premise of the award), which hopefully makes it easier for those who do not explicitly work in/about economics to argue the relevance of their work for this award.
Nomination and prior approval from the student is sent to head.agro@au.dk no later than 27-09-2023, after which selection takes place