NWO announces deadline Vidi

The NWO Vici-call within the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (Vernieuwingsimpuls) for the preliminary proposals closed today. The new deadline for the Vidi call has also been published for this year: October 3, 2019. This form of grant is targeted at researchers who have completed their doctorates and already spent some years conducting post-doctoral research, thereby demonstrating the ability to generate new ideas and bring them independently to fruition.

The Innovational Research Incentives Scheme offers personal grants to talented, creative researchers. The funding enables applicants to do their own line of research. This boosts innovative research and promotes mobility within scientific research institutes. The aim is to promote innovation in academic research and to provide encouragement for individual postdoctoral researchers at various stages of their careers. It is vital to the universities that talented researchers enter the profession and gain promotion within it. Providing creative opportunities for adventurous, talented, pioneering researchers to do research of their own choice and to encourage them to make a permanent career of academic research are therefore key aims of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. With a personal grant, researchers have the opportunity to develop their own, innovative line of research which could be structurally embedded in a research institution.