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Nine Veni Grants to WUR researchers
Nine Wageningen researchers have been awarded a Veni Grant. This is the same number of recipients as last year, when NWO, the Dutch Research Council, awarded a total of 167 grants. This year NWO honoured a total of 188 applications.
The Veni Grant is a personal scientific grant of up to 280 thousand euros for talented researchers who recently received their doctorate. The money will allow the recipients to develop their research ideas over the next three years. The Veni Grants are invariably characterised by serious rivalry. The 188 grants that were awarded this year equate to a success rate of just 13 percent.
Oyster reefs and carbon dioxide removal
As many as two of the researchers in the Environmental Policy Chair Group (in the Department of Social Sciences) have been awarded a Veni Grant. Annet Pauwelussen, who is Assistant Professor of Marine Governance, will use her grant to explore ‘oyster politics’: she will investigate the way in which the oyster reefs that once covered the North Atlantic coasts can be restored inclusively and equitably. Ina Möller, who is Assistant Professor of Climate Politics, received a Veni Grant so that she can conduct research into large-scale carbon dioxide removal, which is a core element of European climate policy. She wants to gain a clear understanding of the impact that this is having on the food production and land use system, including the ‘major polluters’ who are involved, and look into how this is affecting collective emissions.