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Funding, Grants & Competitions

  • FGW RIS Fund 2025-1 (Humanities only)

    Deadline: Friday 31 January 2025

    The Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research offers the Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund that aims at supporting staff with research time in their career development and expanding their opportunities to conduct research. Through the RIS Fund staff can apply for a temporary increase of research time in order to have more time to write grant applications, or to finish one or more (substantial, strategic) publications so as to strengthen their track record for an upcoming grant application.

    For more information, see https://aihr.uva.nl/about-aihr/funding/ris/ris-fund.html or contact Sarah Randeraad at .
  • Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards

    Deadline: Sunday 9 February 2025

    Do you have an innovative idea to tackle a societal challenge? Sign up for the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards 2025 (AmSIA) and stand a chance at winning €10,000 to develop your idea that contributes to a better world. The competition is open to researchers, PhD candidates, staff members and students.

    For more information, see https://www.amsia.nl/ or contact Boudewijn Koopmans at .
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    NWA Science Communication 2025

    Deadline: Tuesday 25 February 2025

    The call 'NWA Science Communication' funds science communication projects that aim to strengthen the connection between science and society. For example by offering new science communication concepts to target groups without obvious links with science.

  • L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Programma 2025

    Deadline: Friday 28 February 2025

    In January the call for the For Women in Science Fellowships 2025 will open. This programme is a collaboration between L’Oréal Benelux, NIAS-KNAW, the Dutch Network of Women Professors, NEMO Science Museum and the Netherlands Commission for Unesco. 

    The prestigious programme offers women researchers in the Life Sciences or STEM disciplines with 3–10 years of post-PhD experience the opportunity to dedicate a semester exclusively to advancing their research. Hosted at NIAS-KNAW in Amsterdam, fellows will be able to work free from administrative, clinical, or teaching responsibilities, fostering significant progress in their work while engaging with an interdisciplinary academic community.

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    NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2025 - round 1

    Deadline: Thursday 6 March 2025

    The SSH Open Competition XS Call for proposals is specifically intended to encourage curiosity-driven and innovative research that involves the relatively rapid exploration of a promising idea. 

    The NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) has three different funding programmes in the Open Competition. These grants are for ideas that hold great promise (XS) and for large-scale grants (M, L). The SSH-XS grants are available for projects with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro to enable proposals for curiosity-driven, innovative research in the research fields covered by the NWO Domain SSH. The Call for proposals of 2025 has 3 rounds. This information concerns the first round. 

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/calls/ssh-open-competition-xs-2025-round-1 or contact Svenja van der Tol at .
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    ERC Proof of Concept Grants ERC-2025-POC

    Deadline: Thursday 13 March 2025

    Principal Investigators of ongoing or recently ERC funded projects can apply for a ERC Proof of Concept grant. This grant aims at facilitating the exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research. PIs can apply for up to € 150.000 for a period of up to 18 months. The next deadline for submissions is 13 March 2025. The second round will close on 18 September 2025.

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    NWO Rubicon 2025-1

    Deadline: Tuesday 25 March 2025

    The Rubicon scheme is targeted at talented researchers who have obtained their PhD within the past year and who want to spend 12 to 24 months at an excellent research institute outside the Netherlands. Applicants must have conducted scientfic research in the Netherlands for a period of at least three years full time in the past five years. There are three rounds per year. The call for proposals for the first round is not yet open, but a (tentative) deadline has been announced: 25 March 2025.

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/calls/rubicon-2025-1 or contact Vera Michilsen at .
  • NWO Vidi Grant 2024

    Deadline: Tuesday 8 April 2025

    Vidi is an instrument within the NWO Talent Programme. The Vidi target group consists of researchers who are in the transition to leadership. They also possess academic qualities that clearly exceed what is usual and demonstrate development of leadership and mentoring qualities. The Vidi grant funds scientifically innovative research and gives researchers the opportunity to establish or expand a research group.

    Closing date for pre-registration: 5 November 2024 14:00 hrs
  • NWO KIC Mission Digital Identities - A Foundation for Trust in the Digital World

    Deadline: Tuesday 8 April 2025
    This Call for proposals focuses on increasing digital trust with digital identities for individuals, legal entities and objects. We invite researchers to submit initiatives and proposals that they have formulated in partnership with researchers from other relevant disciplines and relevant organisations in society, including businesses. This will involve looking beyond the boundaries of scientific domains (humanities, exact sciences, social sciences).