Funds and fellowships
Grant support courses and information meetings
- NWO Veni Pre-proposal information workshop organised by WGS, 28 May 2024, 9:00-13:00
Wageningen Graduate schools will organize an information workshop for researchers who are planning to apply for an NWO Veni grant in 2024 that will be carried out at Wageningen University. The VENI application consists of two phases: first submission of the Preproposal (early September 2024) and, if selected, a full proposal (January 2025). The workshop will give insights into the application procedure and evaluation criteria of the pre proposal.
If you are interested in attending the information session, please send an email to wias@wur.nl before 20 May 2024. You will receive an email with information on the location of the workshop one week before. If you have any questions, please contact Nicole Rodenburg at nicole.rodenburg@wur.nl.
VENI applications can be submitted by candidates who have obtained their PhD, irrespective of whether they hold tenured positions and of whether they come from the Netherlands or abroad. Candidates may only submit an application if they have obtained their PhD in the three years preceding the reference date of this round, 1 January 2023, or between 1 January 2023 and 5 September 2023. An extension to the above career-dependent submission period may be possible under specific circumstances.
Upcoming deadlines WIMEK calls and WUR calls
- WIMEK research fellowships 2024, deadline 10 May 2024
- Wageningen Graduate Schools Sandwich PhD programme, deadline 13 May 2024
- INREF Seed Money, deadline 17 June 2024
INREF seed money projects are allocated for new activities that will contribute to the INREF objectives. - Marina van Damme Grant for female WUR alumni, deadline 30 June 2024
For talented female WUR alumni to take the next step or turn in their career deadline.
Upcoming deadlines other calls
- Smart Materials: Van responsief naar adaptief, deadline 23 May 2024
To create and investigate a new generation of materials, which integrate complex functionalities and prepare these for applications. - Seed call Co-creating circular innovations for the Utrecht region (TU/e), deadline 14 June 2024
Advancing circular solutions through inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration and innovative research. - Open Competition Domain Science - M 2023/2024, deadline 31 July 2024
for non-programmed, curiosity-driven basic research; open for proposals with a research question in or overlapping the fields of earth sciences, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, physics and mathematics. - Open Technology Programme 2024, continuously until 13 December 2024
For applied and technical-scientific research and is characterised by the absence of disciplinary boundaries. - Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships, 3 selection moments per year: 1 February, 1 June, 1 October
Supporting life scientists pursuing a career in science journalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education.
WIMEK Honours Research Programme
Deadline: closed.
Write your own PhD research proposal with professional coaching and training and grab your chance to win a WIMEK PhD grant and conduct your own PhD research!
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- Are you an excellent MSc student?
- Are you dreaming of an academic research career?
- Do you want to elaborate your own original PhD research proposal in the field of 'Sustainability Sciences'?
- Do you want to participate in a group of highly motivated excellent MSc students?
- And are you able to follow the Masterclass (last week period 4) and RMC (can only be done in period 5)?
Then apply for the WIMEK Honours Programme and get a step closer to your own PhD project! Read more here.
WIMEK research fellowships
Deadline: closed
For chairholders. Read more here.
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WGS Sandwich PhD Programme
Deadline: closed.
The aim of the Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) Sandwich PhD Programme is capacity building: a way for the university to reach out to like-minded scientific institutes to build international scientific networks, to facilitate exchange and to reinforce the knowledge basis of these institutes.
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The call for the WGS sandwich PhD programme opens once per year, usually in spring. The calls are published on this website. The WU sandwich grant is a personal grant. Applications can only be submitted by the intended WU promotor of a PhD project. Proposed PhD candidates should:
- be suitable for achieving the aim of capacity building
- have a convincing Curriculum Vitae for a PhD position at WU
- have a strong motivation and an original and innovative research idea
- fulfil
the entry requirements of the WU PhD programme (recognised master
diploma, English proficiency) and be a national from one of the selected countries for this programme - not already be enrolled as a PhD candidate at another institution
- be employed at the home institute during the entire PhD trajectory.
To apply for a WGS sandwich PhD position, you will have to find a promotor from Wageningen University who will endorse your innovative research idea (list of chair groups and contact information can be found here) and would like to be your promotor. A promotor can submit one WGS sandwich PhD proposal per round and there is one round per calendar year. In addition, you will need to provide proof of commitment from your home institute.
Your intended promotor has to submit the application form plus all the required annexes (in one compiled file).
It is a plus if you remain employed at your home institute after completion of your PhD programme. If no clear link between you and your home institute exists, your application will not be taken into consideration. Read more here.