Sandwich Fellowship - Selection Criteria

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The selection committee chooses yearly 12 excellent candidates from outside Western Europe (EU), who have submitted a good and original short research proposal and who have a sound institutional linkage with their home country. PhD-candidates within the Wageningen University sandwich program should carry the nationality of a country in the following regions: Middle and South America, Africa, countries that belong to the former Soviet Union and that are no EU-member state, Asia except Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Dutch nationals (or double nationality) are not accepted as Sandwich PhD candidates.

The programme will accommodate requests from candidates that recently completed a MSc at WU but remains open for candidates with working experience employed by institutions in the countries mentioned above, with the intention to develop a lasting relationship with Wageningen University.

A professor of Wageningen University may only submit 1 Sandwich Fellowship application.


The following criteria are used to select the 12 best proposals:

A] The candidate’s linkage with the home institute

1. Quality and infrastructure of the supervising groups

2. Written institutional support from the countries concerned*)

3. Quality of the relationship between the home institute and Wageningen University.

B] The quality of a candidate as shown by:

1. Curriculum Vitae.

2. Diplomas

3. Publications

C] The quality of the proposal

1. Originality and innovative aspects of the proposed research

2. Clarity of the proposal: problem definition, research methodology
   (comparable to a WOTRO pre-proposal, no full proposals are accepted)

*) The intention of the Wageningen University Sandwich Fellowship is to support brain-gain for the home institute of your Sandwich PhD candidate, in partnership with Wageningen University. Sandwich PhD candidates are therefore required to conduct most of their research at the institutes in their home countries. It must be clear from the application that the candidate’s PhD training will contribute to the brain-gain of the home institute:

Applications for PhD students without any further linkage to the home institute will not be taken into consideration.