NWO Grants Scholarship to Damir Vandic for ECBI Project

On July 20, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that Damir Vandic, an Economics & Informatics honours student, has been granted funding for a four-year period of doctoral research. Starting in fall, Damir will work on an ECBI research project aiming to investigate the use of Semantic Web vocabularies for efficient prduct discovery and presentation.

Since 2004, in the Mosaic (Mozaïek) programme, NWO awards scholarships to graduates from or final-year students at a Dutch university who are from ethnic minorities and have received their entire university education in the Netherlands or have been resident in the Netherlands for at least 5 years. The Mosaic programme aims to encourage graduate students from minority groups to be actively involved in science.

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