The Va’adia-BARD Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Vaadia-BARD Postdoctoral Fellowship program is so named to recognize and honor Yoash Vaadia who, together with T.W. Edminster, guided the inception of the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD).

The program is designed to identify and support young scientists who will eventually become leaders in agricultural sciences and technologies in universities and research institutionsin the United States and Israel. The primary objective of the fellowship is to enable these young scientists to acquire new skills and techniques while becoming professionally established in the agricultural research community. The program promotes cooperative agricultural research between postdoctoral fellows from one country (the United States or Israel) and established scientists from the other. Recipients will travel to the host country to carry out their research.

Citizens of either Israel or the USA, who will have fulfilled all the requirements for a Ph.D. degree in their home country within three years prior to the initiation of the fellowship, are eligible to apply. The BARD fellowship is not available for the continuation of or concurrent to any existing fellowship in the other country. For one year following the conclusion of the fellowship, recipients are ineligible to submit a BARD research proposal in which they are the PI or Co-PI affiliated with an institution in the host country. They may submit as a PI or Co-PI only if affiliated with an institution in their home country. Fellows can submit as a collaborating investigator with affiliation from either country. Non-BARD Funds: Funds from other sources cannot exceed 50% of the grant awarded by BARD.

Submission On-line, see below the link