Sustainable food
15 December, 2020
Daniel Carasso Fellowship, our support for sustainable food research
To reinforce our commitment to systemic research in Sustainable Food, we are launching the call for the Daniel Carasso Fellowship. With this new programme we want to support young postdoctoral researchers of any nationality and scientific discipline, addressing the need for their relocation to promote scientific research in this field in Spain.
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The deadline for submitting applications for the new Daniel Carasso Fellowship will be open until March 5. With it we want to give a new impetus to research by focusing directly on researchers and postdoctoral researchers, to help them consolidate their careers in an area as urgent as the transition to Sustainable Food.
“The Daniel Carasso Fellowship is an opportunity to attract and consolidate research talent in Spain. The programme will contribute to the career development of outstanding young researchers, whose contributions to society will guide the transition to sustainable food systems. Their contribution is essential because of the urgency of our transition to a holistically sustainable system.”
Isabelle Le Galo Flores, director for Spain of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
The Fellowship is endowed with 160,000 euros, of which 120,000 are intended to cover the hiring of the beneficiary for a period of 24 months and 40,000 will support research activities. People of any nationality who wish to carry out a postdoctoral research project at a Spanish university or research centre are eligible for it. Applications will have to be submitted by consolidated research staff from these centres, whether public or private non-profit.
“Young researchers have been trained in a more flexible, systemic and collaborative academic environment than previous generations. Consequently, they add qualities and skills that are necessary to address the great complexity of the food system and establish bridges between disciplines and actors. All of this is necessary to promote the transition to a more sustainable food system”.
Gloria Guzmán Casado, professor at the Pablo de Olavide University and coordinator of the Alimentta think tank
Supporting the research fabric in sustainable food
We decided to award the Daniel Carasso Fellowship in a context marked by the progressive decrease in the execution of public budgets in Spain dedicated to the R+D+I (Research, Development and Innovation) sector. This reduction generates in our country, among other effects, an exodus abroad of young researchers, a weakening of the research fabric in Spanish universities and centres, as well as a greater difficulty in attracting talent from abroad.
Our recently created Fellowship seeks to position itself as a benchmark for supporting researchers and research in Spain, without losing its international character. The initiative will allow us to promote the scientific career of a researcher of extraordinary quality at a critical time for their consolidation as a scientist, but also to promote research in Sustainable Food in Spain and the application of systemic and multidisciplinary approaches, which promote synergies between different fields and disciplines that are usually disconnected, such as, for example, nutrition and agriculture.
Likewise, our new program seeks to support applied research and the generation of knowledge that supports decision-making aimed at the transition to a more sustainable food system, as well as to generate networks, synergies and opportunities for collaboration between research groups in Spain and France.
“The call for the Daniel Carasso Fellowship is a pioneering initiative in Spain designed to attract talent and excellence, and which offers a magnificent opportunity to join a network of research relationships of the highest international academic level. The transition to sustainable food systems is an essential component for a change in the economic and social model that allows us to adapt to the enormous climate challenges that lie ahead.”
Dionisio Ortíz Miranda, researcher on Rural and Agro-environmental Economics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia
A commitment maintained over time
Our Daniel Carasso Fellowship is the result of our commitment to supporting the transition to sustainable food systems and is part of a broader set of initiatives supporting projects in France and Spain. Through various calls, we support pioneering initiatives in the field of food that bring to light the most sustainable practices: from seed production to compost, to promote universal access to healthy food, respectful of people and ecosystems.
Likewise, the promotion of the scientific fabric is a key element for us, which in our lines of work give a prominent weight to action, but also an essential attention to research and subsequent dissemination.
In this sense, we have already carried out three editions of the Daniel Carasso Award, aimed at senior research staff at that time. This recognition had the mission, from already consolidated figures, to inspire young people to develop transdisciplinary approaches in the study of the sustainability of food systems.
The previous winners were:
- Jessica Fanzo (2012) – Professor of Global Food and Agricultural Ethics and Policy at Johns Hopkins University (United States).
- Tara Garnett (2015) – Researcher at the Food and Climate Research Network at the University of Oxford (UK).
- Jane Battersby (2017) – Research Fellow at the African Centre for Cities and the Urban African Food Security Network at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
“Through food we move an entire society towards full sustainability; food connects the economy, employment, the business fabric, schools, culture, families, civil society, innovation and research”.
Isabelle Le Galo Flores, director for Spain of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
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