Since the start, the foundation has sought to promote recruitment of outstanding young researchers to Bergen. In cooperation with the University of Bergen (UiB) a 4-year recruitment program; the Starting Grant programme, has been established to achieve this goal.
The program calls for nominations each year and the foundation normally awards 3 scholarships. Current candidates are presented below.
After receiving his doctoral degree in mathematics at Uppsala University, in 1998, proving that the Lorenz attractor exists, Tucker spent two years at IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) as a postdoctoral fellow. Start up 2007.