Register to the Grants Week for PhDs and Postdocs! (22-23 May)

The UMCG and the RUG are teaming up this year to present the Young Talent Grants Week, a 2019 special event exclusively aimed at young researchers in their senior PhD and early postdoc years. The Young Talent Grants Week will focus on providing you all possible information for the prestigious Rubicon, VENI and Marie Curie individual grants as well as field specific information sessions organized by faculty funding experts and more! Registration is required and spaces for workshops are limited!

Program 22 May

Session chair: prof. dr. Ingrid Molema

08:30 - 09:00 Walk in
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome by Rector Magnificus prof. dr. Elmer Sterken
09:10 – 10:00 Opening lecture: Dr. Elizabeth Koier (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

From rebellious genius to brilliant look-alike: Public project funding in the Netherlands.

10:00 – 11:00 VENI: The inside scoop
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Rubicon: The inside scoop
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00    

Rubicon and VENI, NWO information session
Workshop: The Art of Scientific Storytelling      

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Parallel workshops

The Art of Scientific Storytelling
How to prepare for a VENI application
How to prepare for a Rubicon application

Program 23 May

13:30 – 17:30 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship workshop

13.30 -15.00 Anna Goedhart, MA, National Contact Point for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in the Netherlands (RVO), will provide a presentation on the MSC IF call 2019
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.30 Dr. Kim van Dam, Coordinator Education Energy Academy Europe will provide an insight of her experience as evaluator.
16.30-17.30 Dr. Liliia D. Kulish (FSE) and Dr. Viraj Damle (UMCG) will share their experience as laureates of a MSC IF 2018.