2. • Introduction
• Life during your PhD
• Life after your Phd
• Thinking Ahead (overview of grant fundings)
Overview
3. • Grantfinder
• Degree type
• Scholarship type
• Discipline
• Nationality
• Euraxess
• Research field
• Funding type
• Career stage
• Organization country
• Research Professional
• Discipline
• Award type
• Funder
• Closing date
• Etc.
info: k.melicherova@uvt.nl
• Google search
Portals and databases
4. • Travel grants: check Associations and Conferences
eg. CSA
• Fellowships: check Foundations, Libraries etc
The Newberry
During your PhD
5. Title Prize Fields Freq Deadline Award
Ceremony
Nomination Formal criteria
TiU
Dissertation
Prize
Money
(2
prizes)
Every field within TiU 1 Sep Nov School level Defense took place in the
previous academic year
Preamium
Erasmianum
(Erasmusprijs
)
Money
(max. 5
prizes)
Humanities, Law,
Social Sciences
1 Dec May School Candidates should be <45 years
old
Keetje
Hodshon Prijs
12.500 Humanities 1 Jan June Supervisors Nominations must be signed
(endorsed) by at least two
professors
*General prizes
6. Title Prize Fields Freq Deadlin
e
Award
Ceremo
ny
Nominati
on
Formal criteria
Gerardus van
der Leeuw
PhD
Dissertation
Award
Money,
key
note
lecture
Religion 2 Oct Dec? Superviso
r/
PhD
Committe
e
PhD obtained within 3 academic
years before the award ceremony,
candidate must be a member of
the NGG
Max van der
Stoel Human
Rights Award
Money Human Rights 1 Jul Dec School Dutch or English dissertation,
defended in the previous academic
year
*Specific topics
7. Title Prize Fields Freq Deadline Award
Ceremony
Nomination Formal criteria
Heineken
Young
Scientist
Award
10.000 Biochemistry
biophysics; cognitive
science; medicine;
history;
environmental
sciences
2 Oct Sep Dean PhD defense max. 5 years
before or 3 months after
award ceremony
New Scientist
Award
Money,
trophee,
media-
attention
Every field ? May Sept. Vice-dean Dutch candidates, < 36 years,
PhD obtained max. 5 years
before award
*After your PhD
8. • This overview comprises a selection, there are more (international) prizes (special funds, ngo’s, companies)
• Always check the website to see if the prize still exists and for current deadlines!
• Ask your supervisors/peers/network for information – find your niche!
• Subscribe to (relevant) newsletters – KNAW etc.
• Keep deadlines in sight: the ones mentioned are final deadlines! The internal procedures start earlier
• Start gaining experience with submissions for prizes/funding during your PhD-project to increase your chances
after your PhD
• Discuss with your supervisor to determine strategies
Tips:
9. • Dissertation Prizes (Associations, eg. Folli; )
• PhD exchanges and internships (Research Networks, eg. Voxpol)
• Individual Research Grants
• Rubicon (NWO)
• Veni (NWO)
• MSCA (ERC)
• Humboldt Foundation
After your PhD (contd.)
10. Grant Time Country Duration
Humboldt
0-4y after
PhD
€2,650/m +
benefits Germany 6-24 months
MSCA No restriction
€4,650/m +
benefits
(*country
correction
coefficient)
EU (12 months
rule) 1-2 years
Focus on your
career
Veni
0-3y after
PhD €250 K Netherlands 3 years
Focus on societal
impact
Rubicon
Max 1y after
PhD Abroad 1-2 years Travel grant
Overview of personal grants
11. > Rubicon offers talented researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to
gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands, as international research
experience is likely to be an advantage at a later stage in the applicant's academic career
It covers:
- your salary including fringe benefits,
- travel costs and
- a limited amount for research costs
Deadlines:
- in 2017 are 30 March, 31 August and 30 November
Duration: 1-2 years at an excellent research institution outside the Netherlands
Rubicon (NWO)
12. > It allows researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their
ideas for a period of three years
Target group:
- excellent researchers with a striking and original talent as well a considerable fascination for doing challenging
and pioneering research.
- The focus in this respect is on innovative and curiosity-driven research.
- The candidates are at the start of their academic career but have already demonstrated a striking talent for
doing scientific research.
- It is essential that researchers should have the ability to formulate and conduct a line of scientific research
independently
- Promoting female researchers
Deadline: January 10, 2017
Veni (NWO)
13. • No restriction after PhD or age
• Fixed grant: own salary + allowances
• Goals: mobility / skills / training
• 2 individual grant schemes:
• European Fellowship
• Global Fellowship
• Deadline in September each year
• Mobility rule (<12m in the 3y prior to deadline in hosting country)
• Eulogin on the Participant Portal
MSCA (ERC) - MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS
14. • 12-24 months in a EU Research Institute
• Researcher: any nationality
• Host: EU
• What new skills are you going to learn?
• Researcher benefits from academia
MSCA European Fellowship
15. • Outgoing phase: 12 – 24 months
• Mandatory return phase: 12 months
• Host: non-EU
• What new skills are you going to bring back to EU?
• Researcher benefits from knowledge from academia outside Europe and applies
knowledge at academia in Europe
MSCA Global Fellowships
16. • Researchers from abroad with above average qualifications, at the beginning of your
academic career and only completed your doctorate in the last four years.
• A Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers allows you to carry out
long-term research (6-24 months) in Germany.
• Applicants choose their own research topic and academic host.
• Scientists and scholars of all nationalities and disciplines may apply to the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation online at any time.
• Short-term study visits, participation in congresses and training courses cannot be
financed.
Humboldt (Germany)
18. • 24 January 2017 grant writing workshop (the real McCoy)
• 9 February 2017 grant writing workshop (the real McCoy)
Next meetings
19. Thank You!
You can contact us
with questions on funding
at
TSH grant support
Eleonora Sciubba, Phd
m.e.sciubba@uvt.nl
Anke van der Made
a.vdrmade@uvt.nl
