Collaborating for the Greater Good
Applications for the 2021 Agricultural Greater Good Initiative grants are currently being accepted. The deadline for all 2021 applications is December 4, 2020.
The Illumina Agricultural Greater Good Initiative grants, launched in 2011, are awarded annually. This program spurs critically needed research that will increase the sustainability, productivity, and nutritional density of agriculturally important crop and livestock species. Grant recipients receive donations of Illumina products to support their projects.
Agrigenomics Grant Program – Terms & Conditions
Please read the following terms and conditions (collectively: "terms") carefully. By submitting your entry, you agree to these terms for yourself and on behalf of your Institution/Company. "You" and "your" shall refer to you personally or your Institution/Company, as applicable. "We", "Us" or "Our" includes Illumina and/or its officers, employees, directors, agents, and affiliates.
If you do not agree to these terms, do not click the box below or "SUBMIT" at the end of this form, and do not participate in this offer.
Contest terms
- Using the entry form, submit your written abstract, in 400 words or less, on how you would use an Illumina NovaSeq sequencer to discover, innovate, and accelerate your own research in plant and animal genomics.
- One abstract only per individual and the individual must be submitting the entry on behalf of his/her organization. The grant prize will go to your organization, but not to you personally.
- Abstracts will be judged by the Illumina Scientific committee.
- Each abstract will be judged based on our view of how well the entry reflects scientific merit, innovation, and fit with the Illumina NovaSeq sequencer.
- One grant prize will be awarded determined by us in our sole and absolute discretion.
- Entries must be submitted between 12:00 am PT on May 28, 2020 and before 11:59:59 pm PT on December 4, 2020.
- The winner will be announced during the Illumina Workshop at PAG XXIX in San Diego.
- Grant Winner agrees to provide appropriate samples and/or nucleic acid to Illumina in San Diego, CA, USA within 90 days of being announced.
- Grant winner agrees to be available for reasonable promotional activities at Illumina's request for a period of 12 months following announcement of the grant award. Promotional activities may include (but are not limited to):
- Case Studies
- Webinars
- Website/Newsletter story features
- In-person seminars
- Video and photoshoots with prizes
- If the grant winner is unable to take delivery of its grant within 90 days of the announcement of the award, Illumina reserves the right to award the grant to another entrant of Illumina's choosing who can take delivery of the grand prize within 90 days of the announcement of the award.
Grand Prizes:
- 20 tera-bases of Illumina NovaSeq sequencing data on samples of your choice
To have your submission considered, all entries must:
- Be in English
- Be complete
- Be an original work
Additional Term & Conditions
- By submitting your entry, you agree to all of the terms and conditions listed both above and below in these terms and conditions.
- Government institution employees and Illumina employees and contractors (and their immediate families), healthcare professionals (as defined by Illumina's policies on healthcare professionals) are not eligible to participate in this offer.
- Only one entry will be accepted per individual.
- Entries will be accepted via our online submission form through 11:59:59 PM PT on December 4, 2020. A panel of Illumina scientists and executives will judge the applications and award the winner. Winner will be announced during the Illumina Workshop at PAG XXIX in San Diego.
- You agree to obtain all authorizations and permissions from your Institution/Company or others that are required to allow you to make this submission and have your name and institution name used for all purposes, including marketing, by Illumina or its affiliates without any compensation and with or without attribution, regardless of whether your entry wins the grant. You also agree personally to all the authorizations and permissions required by these terms and conditions.
- You agree that the use of your submission by Illumina does not violate any rule, policy, copyright, trademark, patent, or procedures of your Institution/Company or that of any other person. You agree that all parts of your submission become the sole property of Illumina.
- You acknowledge and agree that any submission made hereunder is not being made in exchange for any promise of business to Illumina.
- You agree that Illumina may contact you for purposes of marketing its products and services.
- Once submitted, your materials and information cannot be returned.
- All submissions must be made before 11:59:59 pm PACIFIC TIME on December 4, 2020, to be considered for the grant. Late submissions will not be considered.
- All submissions must be made through Illumina's online registration form.
- Illumina will have full, sole and absolute discretion regarding which submission is selected as the winner of this grant.
- This contest will end at 11:59:59 pm PACIFIC TIME on December 4, 2020, and the winner will be announced during the Illumina Workshop at PAG XXIX in San Diego.
- Illumina reserves the right to discontinue or modify this program at any time for any reason. In such event, Illumina will post a notice on our website and inform all already submitted entrants via e-mail. In the event of discontinuance, Illumina will have no liability to you, your employees, and agents or team members for such cancellation or modification.
- Illumina may refuse to consider a submission if Illumina determines in its sole discretion that awarding the grant to the entrant would likely result in a violation of an applicable law, rule, or policy, including, but not limited to, if contrary to the law where you reside.
- Illumina reserves the right to provide a raincheck or substitute a similar award if the award cannot be provided for reasons outside of Illumina's control.
- The odds of winning this contest will depend, in part, on how many contestants enter. However, we cannot predict with specificity how many contestants will participate.
- Each applicant is responsible for all of your own costs, and the costs of your employees and agents, incurred or that may be incurred in connection with this offer, including, without limitation, any tax liability (including any income tax associated with the value of the award), and any costs associated with entering into and participating in this offer.
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- ILLUMINA'S TOTAL AND CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFER SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE GRANT ELIGIBLE UNDER THE OFFER.
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