How we can support you

• Finding the right opportunity: we can help you determine what the right funding possibilities are for you.
• Brainstorm session: we can discuss your proposal outline with you in a brainstorm session to fine-tune your project idea.
• Feedback on proposals and rebuttals: we can give you feedback on proposals and your responses to reviewers' comments.
• Interview training: when you are invited for an interview, we can help to organize a mock interview to get feedback on your presentation and your answers to questions from the committee.

How we share information with you

• Training and workshops. See our News and Events section of this site.
• Our Grant Update newsletter provides an overview of calls, deadlines and trainings relevant for UvA researchers.
• The MS Teams page Grant Support IXA-UvA offers training materials, presentations, templates and other useful information that you can use for preparing your research proposal.

Timeline and intensity of support

The point in time when you contact us determines how much support we can give you. For some deadlines there are many applications and we have to divide our time.

We are very happy and dedicated to support in funding applications. However, we don’t have the capacity to support all funding applications UvA and its staff do. We restrict our support to applications for research funding (we don’t support applications for education grants, like Erasmus+ or Comenius), for which the faculty or institute has given submission approval. Next to that, we support research grants of minimum 50k funding size.

In general it can be said that the moment in time when you contact us determines how much support we can give you. For some deadlines there are many applications and we have to divide our time. If you send us your proposal shortly before the deadline we cannot guarantee to give you feedback.

As a scientist you are busy, and you might prefer to work close to the deadline. However, if you send us your proposal shortly before the deadline we cannot guarantee to give you feedback.

Specific measures for the fall of 2025

In the fall multiple funding schemes have a call and deadline. Our experience from the last 2 years is that in that period there are simply too many proposals for the Team to handle. Therefore we take the following measures:

1. VENI. We support Veni-applicants in the pre-proposal stage by providing a guidance package (guideline, template, q&a, examples). We don’t provide feedback on draft documents in this stage. Applicants who are invited by NWO to submit a full proposal, will receive full support in the second stage of the application process.
2. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellows. The application process starts with the permission of the UvA (faculty/institute) to apply (meaning the UvA will act as host institute) and the appointment of a supervisor. We will be in contact with the supervisor and will give feedback on one draft proposal, provided it is minimum 80% ready and mailed to us well before the deadline.

Collaboration with Faculty teams

The Grant Support team collaborates with support staff in your faculty on the area of research funding acquisition. See the section Support at Faculties for more information and contact details.