Applications for Fertilizer Efficiency Fellowship

This competitive fellowship aims to spur and foster disruptive innovation in the next generation of fertilizer research and development through a research challenge, whereby emerging young scientists in agriculture research can enhance their efforts in fertilizer efficiency research and technology development. The technologies and research generated through this project will address the need for increasing plant uptake of essential macronutrients and limit the loss of inputs – which contribute largely to water and marine ecosystem damage – while boosting productivity

The FFAR-OCP Disruptive Technology Fellowship (FFAR-OCP Fellowship) supports research in the following areas:

• Organic Fertilizers
• Intelligent Fertilizers
• Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers
• Biofertilizers
• Biostimulants
• Specialty products

The FFAR-OCP Fellowship provides stipend support for up to five early career scientists (within up to ten years of receiving PhD) and seeks to enable high impact research in the focus areas of the project.

Awardees will receive a maximum of $75,000 and will cover 12-24 months of funding to conduct projects in fertilizer efficiency research and technology development that have already demonstrated promise in a first phase of research and would clearly benefit from a catalytic push to achieve proof of concept or early product development to progress to a second phase.

The FFAR-OCP Fellowship will not support brand new research proposals without any prior history of research progress.

The awardees will also receive a certificate and be named as OCP/FFAR disruptive fertilizer technology fellows. Fellows may be extended the opportunity to partner with OCP and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco to co-develop novel fertilizer products that could be highly efficient both for high production and low input agriculture following the completion of the project.