New fellowship for Postgraduate researchers

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has partnered with The Schmidt Family Foundation, a US charity created by Google chairman Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy, to launch the Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship which will award £14,000 to students at 10 partnering universities. Three of which are in the UK.

The students must be studying design, engineering or business at one of the institutions, and must also identify an academic from their university to oversee their work. They will need to submit their ideas for developing “creative and innovative thinking around the circular economy”, and if successful, will attend a London summer school in June 2013. The money should encourage students to develop thinking that will promote a more “circular economy” – a school of thought that aims to increase the amount of physical waste that is converted into resources. The fellowship has funding for at least three years, and will increase the number of students funded from 10 this year to 25 in 2014 and 2015.

Universities which are part of the program in the UK are Imperial College London, Cranfield University and London Business School. The best institutions in the UK for their respective specialisations.

Source: Chris Parr, Times higher Educational

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