Nanne de Vries Professor’s Fund

Call for Proposals 2024 is open!
Young researchers (up to 6 years after promotion) can now apply for a grant for financial support for their (research) projects. Deadline: 25 October 2024.

The Nanne de Vries Professors’ Fund (formerly known as the ‘Professor’s Fund’) is an initiative of several Maastricht University professors. Occupying an exemplary and influential position, these professors deem it necessary to support the university and its academic community and have opted to do so through the University Fund Limburg. Funding is made possible by donating the payments they received for third-party jobs, royalties and other financial resources.

Open call 2024
The Nanne de Vries Professor’s Fund calls on recently promoted researchers to apply for a grant. Are you at the start of your scientific career, but is a lack of funding holding back your research? Then this call for proposals may be of interest to you. The fund offers financial support to academic talent, thereby helping UM research take an important step forward. Submit your application no later than Friday 25 October via info@ufl-swol.nl. Applicants will receive a message at the beginning of December.

Download the application form 2024

Examples of eligible projects:
o travel and accommodation costs for a visit to a foreign library/archive in preparation for an NWO or ERC application;
o travel and accommodation costs for a visit to a foreign university or research institution in preparation for an NWO-Rubicon application or a Marie Curie grant;
o pilot research providing the data for a Veni application or other, larger research funding programmes;
o writing/completing an article for a leading journal. Please note that there is no grant for funding open access publication fees.

General conditions
o Apply no later than Friday 25 October by sending an e-mail to info@ufl-swol.nl.
o The application form is fully completed.
o A letter of reference from the professor concerned is attached.
o A budget has been attached.
o There is an account of the realisation of the project for which a grant was obtained. To this end, in case a grant is awarded, an amount of 75% will be paid at the actual start of the project and the remaining 25% upon submission of the report and an account of expenditure.

Preferences
o The committee would like to see a paragraph in the grant application devoted to how the outcomes of the project will be communicated to the general public (however, this is not relevant for all project applications).
o The committee would like to see that the applicant has tried to obtain alternative funding.

Allocation Committee
The fund has an allocation committee of professors who adjudicate the distribution of resources within the fund. This committee comprises 6 members, representing all faculties. The allocation committee consists of (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Monica Claes, Prof. Dr. Rob Bauer, Prof Dr. Ir. Ralf Peeters, Prof. Dr. Wiebe Bijker, Prof. Dr. Marko Jelicic, Prof. Dr. Hans Savelberg

Make a donation to the fund
If you would like to make a donation to this fund, you can do so through the University Fund Limburg Attn Nanne de Vries Professor’s Fund, IBAN: NL21 INGB 0653 6632 42.