Impact cases and acceleration grants

Creating societal impact is one of the ambitions of the Faculty of Economics & Business. In order to support the academic staff to achieve impact, the Faculty Board has installed acceleration grants and grants for impact cases. The acceleration grants are awarded to research projects that are potentially impactful, but need additional resources to reach their full potential. Impact cases are research projects that have proven to have societal impact. From 2023 onwards, the Faculty Board has made rewards available, in the form of either research time or funds. The vice-dean research Robert Lensink: "It is crucial that our faculty’s research is not only rigorous, but that it has serious impact as well”.

Below you can find all FEB's impact cases and acceleration grants. Click on the titles to read about the research and people behind these impact cases and acceleration grants. More detailed information about some of the acceleration grants and impact cases will follow.

Impact case 2025

1. Kristina Czura:
   Impact case: Improving menstrual health in low-income and crisis-affected settings
2. Gerard van den Berg:

   Sanctions for young welfare recipients

Accleration grants 2025

1. Rieneke Slager:

   Configurational analysis of shareholder engagement

2. Isabel Estrada:
   Collaborations that matter (and work): Unveiling best practices in the Northern Netherlands

3. Anne Kellers:
   Does Enviromental, Social, and Governance (ESG) integration in fi nancial markets impact the real economy?
   

Impact cases 2024

1. Annika Mueller and Shan Ahmad:
   Impact case: Financial Inclusion in Pakistan
2. Konstantin Wacker:
   Impact case: Building capacity for policy analysis of economic growth

Accleration grants 2024

1. Marijke Leliveld and Hans Risselda:

   Enhancing data-driven decision-making for Dutch charity organizations

2. Milena Nikolova:
   Work Meaning and Motivation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work Wellbeing

3. Claire Stein:
   Fostering new collaborations through a workshop on lessons learned from culturally-responsive intervention development in Vietnam

4. Jenny van Doorn and Jana Holthöwer:
   Robots to the Rescue! Implementing Robots in Health and Elderly Care.

5. Iris Vis, Thao Nguyen, Niels Wouda, Imke Hakkens:
   Educational Logistics for Personalised Learning: pilot studies on planning elective hours.

6. Katrin Heucher:
   How to catalyze positive social change from within organizations – PractitionerWorkshops

Impact cases 2023

1. Paul Buijs:
   impact case: Sustainable urban freight transport in Groningen and beyond         

2. Jutta Bolt, Robert Inklaar, Bart Los, and Gaaitzen de Vries:
   impact case: Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) Databases 

3. Dirk Bezemer:
   impact case: Changing the Dutch public debate about financialization: housing markets, pension funds and inequality        

4. Harry Garretsen and Janka Stoker:
   impact case: Leadership in uncertain times

5. Rob Alessie, Viola Angelini, Hermien Dijk, Roel Freriks, Ruud Koning, Jochen Mierau, and Laura Viluma:
   impact case: Lifelines Corona Research Study (LCRS)