NCG Talent Program

What is it about?

The Netherlands Centre for Geodesy and Geo-information is launching a new initiative to stimulate the development of young talent in the field of Geo. This is the NCG Talent Program. Financial contributions can be made from this program to activities – in the broadest sense of the word – that promote the understanding of geodesy and geo-information and their social application. Examples are project education at secondary school, higher professional education or university, and study days, workshops and seminars by young researchers affiliated with a university or research institute.

How to qualify?

The NCG Talent Program is intended for anyone under the age of 35 who is or wants to be active in the field of Geo. To be eligible for a financial contribution, you must submit a short plan of action to the NCG at info@ncgeo.nl, including an estimate of the costs of the intended activity. Action plan and budget together cover approximately 1 A4.
The NCG board uses the following criteria when assessing the proposals:

  • The proposed activity is innovative, such as the development of new knowledge or new social applications of Geo;
  • The proposed activity is connecting in the sense that different parties are involved or focuses on increasing awareness of or dealing with Geo;
  • The proposed activity is inclusive in the sense that it is aimed at all groups in society.

The submitter must indicate in the action plan how the proposal meets at least two of these three criteria.

Upon approval of the submission, the submitter will perform the following actions:

  • Spending of the funds preferably in the calendar year in which the approval was given;
  • An invitation will be placed on the NCG website for a presentation of the results of the activity carried out;
  • The applicant can use the NCG network for invitations;
  • After the activity, a short report, together with appropriate visual material, is submitted to the NCG, which publishes that report on the NCG website;
  • After receiving the report, the promised amount will be transferred to the submitter.
 

Procedure

It is possible to submit a proposal all year round. The NCG board assesses the submitted proposals twice a year, in the spring and in the autumn, and determines the amount of the NCG contribution. Once the available annual budget has been allocated, no new proposals can be submitted that year.
The call for proposals will be published on the NCG website, brought to the attention of the members of the NCG Platform and in the NCG network. The members of the Platform and the NCG committees in particular play an active role in announcing the Talent Program.

Rewarded entries

2021 Adriaan van Natijne
Add context to your model. Sentinel-2 time series for everyone

2020-1 Lin Chang
Sinkhole geodesy in the Netherlands: workshop and field excursion

2020-2 Donglian Peng
Creating Interactive Online Maps Workshop

2020-3 Bas Altena
The towers of Thales, Grade measurement through church towers and Earth observation

2019 Mingshu Wang
Informed Facility Management from Spatiotemporal Analysis of Wi-Fi Data