- Award: €40,000
- Deadline: 30 April 2026
The MNI Grant is now open for applications, inviting healthcare professionals, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical nutrition to submit their proposals. We warmly encourage submissions from nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, physicians and surgeons who are passionate about advancing nutritional care.
For 2026, the MNI Grant is offering €40,000 to support a local initiative or project designed to enhance the nutritional management of patient care. Applicants should aim to present high-quality, impactful initiatives that have the potential to improve practice and outcomes in clinical nutrition.
Must focus on quantifiable advancements in one or more of the following areas of clinical nutrition:
- Demonstrating effective nutritional care and implementation of clinical nutrition management pathways and therapies
- Strategies to implement and advance nutritional care in clinical practice
- Evidence of improved patient outcomes, including patient reported outcomes
- Demonstration of health economic benefits
- Patient and carer initiatives demonstrating improved access to, or compliance with clinical nutrition therapy
- Education of medical students or healthcare professionals including an overview of funding and expenditures
Since its inception in 2008, the MNI Grant has helped fuel ambitious projects worldwide, endorsed by PEN and sister societies, that have played a role in shaping stronger nutritional care policies at the local level.
The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2026 — a valuable opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in patient nutrition.