Today the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) announced the results of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme for 2008. University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht received a total of six Vidi grants for outstanding researchers and five Veni grants for researchers who have recently completed their PhDs.
The Vidi grants are intended for researchers who have been conducting research for a number of years at postdoctoral level after receiving their PhDs. In doing this, the researchers have generated their own innovative ideas and successfully developed these ideas independently. The Vidi grant awards a maximum of 600,000 euros to each researcher. He or she can use this money to develop their own line of research for a five-year period and hire one or more researchers to help them with this. These scientists are among the best 10 to 20 percent in their field. Veni grant recipients can use the money to develop and research their ideas over the course of three years. The maximum amount of this grant is 208,000 euros per researcher.
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme The Veni grant is one of the three kinds of funding that make up the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (
www.nwo.nl/subsidiewijzer.nsf/pages/NWOA_4YJDQ3_Eng). The other two grants are the Vidi grant (for experienced postdoctoral researchers) and the Vici grant (for senior researchers). The scheme was set up in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Dutch universities.
The UMC Utrecht projects that were awarded Veni and Vidi grants are described in the accompanying
supplement(doc).