[staff-physics-and-astronomy-HL-UHD-UD] FYI Unilever Research Prizes 2025

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From: BETA Onderwijsbeleid <onderwijsbeleid.beta at vu.nl<mailto:onderwijsbeleid.beta at vu.nl>>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 17:30
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Subject: Unilever Research Prizes 2025

Dear all,

Now the thesis season is at an end, the award season is picking up in earnest (sorry for the stream of emails some of you are receiving).

With this email, I'd like to invite you to submit a candidate for the Unilever Research Prize<https://hive.unilever.com/unilever-research-prizes/>, awarding 2500 euros for a Master's thesis contributing to the Global Sustainable Development Goals Unilever has chosen as focus areas:
Global Goal 1 - No poverty
Global Goal 2 - Zero hunger
Global Goal 3 - Good health and wellbeing
Global Goal 5 - Gender equality
Global Goal 6 - Clean water and sanitation
Global Goal 7 - Affordable and clean energy
Global Goal 12 - Responsible consumption and production
Global Goal 13 - Climate action

The deadline for submissions is Monday September 15 at 13:00, to Onderwijsbeleid.beta at vu.nl<mailto:Onderwijsbeleid.beta at vu.nl>. A selection committee will pick a candidate from all complete submissions and submit them to Unilever. Please find additional information in the attachments, including information on the procedure, the submission form and an example from last year.


Kind regards,
Tijmen Klous, MA
Policy Officer Education and Quality Assurance
Faculty of Science (BETA)
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