MacArthur Foundation - 100&Change

The MacArthur Foundation runs the 100&Change competition to provide significant funds to tackle problems that other, small philanthropic organisations cannot provide. The Foundation provides funds for proposals in any field or sector that articulate both an urgent problem of significant scale, scope, and complexity, and a solution that is impactful, evidence-based, feasible, durable, and just.

Deadline: 15 August 2024

Information: macfound.org/programs/awards/100change/

NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2024

This programme enables researchers who received their PhD in the social sciences and humanities between five and ten years ago to carry out innovative projects. This programme is explicitly about curiosity-driven, cutting-edge research and the ability to quickly analyse a promising idea. With a grant of up to €50,000, researchers will have the opportunity to lay the foundations for a new line of research. They can also carry out research to develop methods or set up a collaboration or network. Applications are made anonymously, so the evaluation is based solely on the research idea.

Deadlines: There will be 3 rounds of €3 million each in 2024:

• Round 1: 19 March 2024 14:00 hrs
• Round 2: 27 August 2024 14:00 hrs
• Round 3: 15 October 2024 14:00 hrs

Information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/calls/ssh-open-competition-xs-2024-round-2

ERC Advanced Grant 2024

Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants - called Principal Investigators (PI) - are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements. The Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.

Deadline: 29 August 2024 17:00 hrs.

Information: erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/advanced-grant

Peace Research Grants

The International Peace Research Organisation Foundation awards grants to help fund peace research projects in places as diverse as Argentina, Bosnia, inner city communities in the United States, the Middle East, the Philippines, the Punjab, and Uganda.

Amount: Up to $5,000

Two deadlines per year:

• Cycle 1: Applications open 1 January – deadline 28/29 February 2024
• Cycle 2: Applications open 1 July – deadline 31 August 2024

Information: iprafoundation.org/grants-info/

NWO Veni 2024

Veni allows researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years.

Deadline pre-registration: 3 September 2024 14:00 hrs.

Deadline full capplication: 28 January 2025 14:00 hrs.

Information: nwo.nl/calls/nwo-talentprogramma-veni-sgw-2024

NWO Rubicon 2024-2

Rubicon aims to encourage talented researchers who recently received their PhD to spend some time at research institutes outside of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to further their scientific career.

Deadline full application: 3 September 2024 14:00 hrs.

Information: nwo.nl/en/calls/rubicon-2024-2-0

Ammodo Science Fellowship 2024

The Ammodo Science Fellowship offers early career researchers the opportunity to conduct high-quality research of their choice and expand their international network. The fellowship will be granted biennially across four domains: Biomedical Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.

Amount: from € 50,000 to € 200,000

Deadline: 6 September 2024

Information: fellowship.ammodo.org

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions  – Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be provided to excellent researchers undertaking international mobility either to or between EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries, as well as to non-associated Third Countries. Applications will be made jointly by the researcher and a beneficiary in the academic or non-academic sector.

Deadline: 11 September 2024

Information: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships

ERC Starting Grant

Researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal can apply. Starting Grants may be awarded up to € 1.5 million for a period of 5 years. 

Deadline: 15 October 2024

Information: https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/starting-grant

NWO SSH Open Competition M 2024

The SSH OC M target group consists of experienced researchers who obtained their doctorate at least ten years ago with a great fascination for conducting challenging and groundbreaking research. The focus is on curiosity-driven research.

Deadline: The call is expected to open at the end of June. The deadline for submission is 31 October 2024.

Information:

• nwo.nl/en/ssh-open-competition-m
• nwo.nl/en/news/eligibility-criteria-amended-for-ssh-open-competition-m-2024

NWO Vidi 2024

Vidi is for researchers who have carried out several years of postdoctoral research after their PhD and allows them to develop their own innovative research line and appoint one or more researchers to this end.

Deadline preregistration: 5 November 2024 14:00 hrs.

Deadline full capplication: 8 April 2025 14:00 hrs.

Information: nwo.nl/en/calls/nwo-talentprogramma-vidi-2024

Gerda Henkel Foundation Research Grants

The Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Gerda Henkel Foundation) provides financial support for the historical humanities, including the history of law, through prizes, grants and fellowships. Depending on the type of project, costs are covered for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs. Project staff on research projects may be covered via PhD or research scholarships. The maximum funding period is 24 months.
Deadline: There are biannual application windows. In 2024, the application deadlines are:

• 22 May 2024
• 22 November 2024

Information: gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/general-research-grants-projects?page_id=32

ERC Consolidator Grant

Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal can apply. Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to € 2 million for a period of 5 years.

Deadline: 14 January 2025

Information: https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/consolidator-grant

The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science

The fellowship is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. The aim is to award up to ten fellowships each year. Researchers who pursue unconventional projects outside the mainstream of science (including natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, and humanities) may apply. Those in current postdoctoral positions are also eligible.

Deadline: 15 January 2025

Information: brancoweissfellowship.org

KNAW Early Career Partnerships

Postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their careers can apply for up to EUR 10,000 to organise an interdisciplinary meeting in the Academy's Trippenhuis complex or another location of their choice.

Deadline: Call is opening 1 November 2024

Information: knaw.nl/en/funds-and-prizes/knaw-early-career-partnerships

Instituut Gak-KNAW Award

Talented early-career researchers may apply for a three-year appointment as a post-doc researcher at an Academy institute to conduct research on the labour market and social security in the Netherlands.

Deadline: Call is opening 1 November 2024

Information: knaw.nl/en/funds-and-prizes/institute-gak-knaw-award

Statesman Thorbecke Fund Programme

The Statesman Thorbecke Fund Programme is for research projects that have a strong connection with the Dutch statesman Johan Rudolf Thorbecke. Preference is given to projects carried out by a postdoctoral researcher. A project may be awarded up to EUR 200,000 in funding.

Deadline: Call is opening 1 September 2025

Information: knaw.nl/en/funds-and-prizes/statesman-thorbecke-fund-programme

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – COFUND 2024

COFUND provides funding for institutions to set up doctoral or postdoctoral schemes for research, training and career development, involving international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. Projects last for up to 5 years and recruit at least 3 researchers, and help host organisations to fund salaries and additional allowances. 

Deadline: 26 September 2024

Information: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/cofund

UvA IP themes

The theme-based collaboration programme invites academics to formulate new, sometimes unexpected research questions on socially relevant themes at the interface of disciplines and faculties - and to also incorporate these in teaching.

Call for Proposals Midsize Projects (Instrument II) 2024

Midsize Projects are meant to encourage UvA scholars to consolidate existing collaborations between scholars from different faculties on a research topic within one (or potentially two) of the four IP Themes. At the same time, researchers are invited to strengthen active collaboration with non-academic partners in that research. We also welcome collaborations who work towards an application for future funding via programmes such as National Growth Fund, Horizon Europe, etc.

Deadline: 31 October 2024 11:00 hrs.

Information: uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/about-the-university/strategy/theme-based-collaboration/theme-based-collaboration.html

ERC Synergy Grant

The ERC Synergy Grant is for a group of two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) working together and bringing different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. PIs must present a competitive track record as appropriate to their career stage. Proposals are evaluated on the sole criterion of scientific excellence which takes on the additional meaning of outstanding intrinsic synergetic effect.

Deadline: 6 November 2024

Information: https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/synergy-grant

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Doctoral Networks 2024

The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe and beyond to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability in the long-term.

Deadline: 27 November 2024

Information: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/doctoral-networks

KNAW Early Career Partnerships

Postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their careers can apply for up to EUR 10,000 to organise an interdisciplinary meeting in the Academy's Trippenhuis complex or another location of their choice.

Deadline: 1 February 2025

Information: knaw.nl/en/funds-and-prizes/knaw-early-career-partnerships

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Staff Exchanges

The Staff Exchanges action funds short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations. The aim is to develop sustainable collaborative projects between different organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (in particular SMEs), based in Europe and beyond.

Deadline: 5 February 2025

Information: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-staff-exchanges-2024

IXA Impact Program Fall 2024

How do you increase your societal impact? What kind of strategy do you need? How do you present the story behind your research more clearly, with more emphasis on output and relevance? Who might be interested in your project or idea? And how do you approach media outlets, government agencies or companies? The Impact Program offers answers to all these questions and more. IXA developed the program for mid-career researchers of VU, Amsterdam UMC and UvA.

When: 26 September 2024-11 March 2025 (in English)

The starting dates in 2025 are 18 March (in Dutch) and 2 October (in English)

Information:

• ixa.nl/events/impact-program-fall-2024/
• ixa.nl/for-researchers/develop-your-skills/impact-program/

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

ERC Proof of Concept Grants are for PIs of ongoing or recently completed ERC-funded research projects, and help explore the commercial and social innovation potential of this research. The biannual award provides a lump sum of EUR 150,000 for a period of 18 months.

Deadline: 17 September 2024

Information: erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/proof-concept

Open Science NL – Open Science Meetings

Both researchers and research support staff may submit an application for financial support for organising an open science meeting. The aim of this instrument is to allow open science communities to organise meetings on topics of common interest. Bottom-up support will benefit these communities and the connections between them by allowing open science practices to blossom and spread faster.   

Amount: The maximum grant size is € 15,000 per meeting. The maximum remuneration per participant is € 100.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted continuously, until the deadline of 12 December 2024 14:00 hrs. An application for a meeting must be submitted a minimum of six weeks before the meeting takes place.

Information: openscience.nl/en/calls/open-science-meetings

Open Science Clusters' Action for Research & Society cascading-grant

To support the research communities to take up open science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC, OSCARS will launch two Open Calls (in total worth about 16 million Euro) to select third-parties for the development of new, innovative Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA). Projects can be proposed in the field of any of the Science Clusters by any researcher, or group of researchers, through a cascading grant mechanism.

Amount: Funding per project is between €100,000 to €250,000 (lump sum).

Deadlines:

• 1st call launches March 2024; deadline: 29 April 2024
• 2nd call launches November 2024; deadline: 29 December 2024

Information: oscars-project.eu

Impact workshops NWO

These workshops will help you to define the focus of your proposal and increase the chance that your research will have societal impact. You can decide for yourself when, where, with whom and how often you use them.

When: open continuously

Information: NWO Impact Online workshops

NWO Open Access Books

The aim of this funding instrument is to stimulate the Open Access publication of academic books that result from NWO funding by providing funds for the payment of Book Processing Charges. Open access means your book can be read, shared and cited digitally without readers having to buy it. Open access thus increases the chances of your work being widely read and having an impact. Open access publishing does not prevent a possible simultaneous publication of the printed book.

When: open continuously

Information: nwo.nl/en/calls/open-access-books

Horizon Results Booster – steering research towards a strong societal impact

Supported by the European Commission, Horizon Results Booster services are delivered to FP7, H2020, and HE projects at no cost. The free-of-charge services are provided by experts and cover several paths in Dissemination and Exploitation activities, notably Portfolio Dissemination and Exploitation, Business Plan Development, and Go to Market service. Receive expert free of charge support services to boost the exploitation potential of your research results, disseminate effectively, and go to market.

When: open continuously

Information: horizonresultsbooster.eu

Skillshare Law programme

Skillshare Law is the booster programme designed specifically for law school researchers. Researchers train skills needed in determining a personal career path in science (research design, grant writing, networking and pitching training).  In addition, Skillshare serves not only as a learning platform, but also as a platform for sharing experiences and discussing career challenges with peers and successful senior researchers from the faculty and beyond. In the academic year 2024-2025, 2 programs will be offered: 6 modules for postdocs and junior UDs/UHDs, and 3 (mandatory) modules for PhDs.

When:

• Postdocs and junior UDs/UHDs: September 2024-June 2025
• PhDs: March-May 2025

More information and registration: download the programme here.

'How to form an effective and enduring consortium'

Article on the NWO website: nwo.nl/en/cases/how-to-form-an-effective-and-enduring-consortium.

Online workshops on impact

Online workshops on knowledge utilisation by NWO:  https://impact.nwo.nl/en.