To apply for funding, please fill out the application form. Shortly after the deadline, the Donders Executive Board, in consultation with the Research Platform, will make an initial selection based on the degree to which the proposal meets the requirements and aligns with the objectives of the call (e.g., the degree to which the proposal includes a new collaboration, the feasibility and clarity of the project, and the motivation for the budget). Subsequently, the short-listed proposals will enter a lottery where each proposal has an equal chance of winning. Proposals that are short-listed but are not selected for funding can be resubmitted in the next round. We strongly encourage early career researchers to apply.
Requirements:
- The team of applicants include more than two members.
- The team includes members from multiple DI centres (DCC, DCCN, DCN, DCMN, MPI, CLS).
- The main and co-applicants must be employed as a researcher under a contract that covers the entire calendar year 2026. Diversity (e.g., gender) should be considered.
- The main applicant cannot be the main applicant of two projects.
- To encourage new projects we expect the main applicants not to have published together in the past 3 years
- Main applicants of the awarded collaborative projects from the previous call cannot apply for the next call.
- The budget can range from 100 to ~10.000 euro, to be spent before December 1, 2026.
- The budget can include various items, such as money for pilot testing, a student assistant, app development, small materials, etc.
- The budget cannot include salaries of applicants, administrative support, conference fees or publication costs.
- Funded proposals must agree to write a short report at the end of the year and present the results of the collaboration during one of the Donders wide meetings.
- Successful applicants in the previous round skip one round (as main applicant).
- The project runs from January 2026-December 2026