Prizes and grants

Prizes

Spinoza Prize & Stevin Prize

The NWO Spinoza Prize and Stevin Prize are awarded annually and are the most important scientific prizes in the Netherlands.

Hermesdorf Prize

Each year, the Hermesdorf Prizes go to a junior and a senior researcher from Radboud University and/or Radboudumc who have made a significant social impact with their research.

The Radboud Science Awards enabled researchers to adapt their scientific breakthroughs into learning and teaching materials for elementary students, in collaboration with the Science Education Hub Radboud University.

Christine Mohrmann Stipend

Every year, 10 stipends are awarded from the Mohrmann Fund distributed among faculties to encourage female PhD students.

Nobel Prize for Physics 2010

In 2010, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, then both associate professors at Radboud University, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of graphene.

Honorary doctorates

Radboud University annually awards one or more honorary doctorates during the Dies Natalis, the university's anniversary. This list shows all honorary doctorates since the foundation in 1923 as Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.

Grants

The Talent Programme offers personal grants to talented, creative researchers. This enables them to conduct the research of their choice. The Talent Scheme has three funding instruments (Veni, Vidi, Vici) tailored to various phases in researchers' scientific careers. Find the Radboud researchers who received a Veni, Vidi or Vici grant from NWO.

Veni grants

The Veni, Vidi and Vici grants together form the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, a subsidised programme for talented, creative researchers who conduct innovative research. The Veni grant is for researchers who have obtained their doctorate.

Vidi grants

The Veni, Vidi and Vici grants together form the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, a subsidised programme for talented, creative researchers who conduct innovative research.

Vici grants

The Veni, Vidi and Vici grants together form the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, a subsidised programme for talented, creative researchers who conduct innovative research. The Vici grant is for outstanding senior researchers.

Horizon Europe, the largest EU funding programme, supports Europe’s best research. At Radboud University, top researchers were awarded highly competitive ERC grants and received funding for Horizon Europe collaborative projects.

ERC Synergy Grants

The ERC Synergy Grants (funding up to a maximum of 14 million euros) are the largest and most competitive grants of the European Research Council. Scientific excellence is the criterium.

ERC Advanced Grants

ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. The maximum funding is 2.5 million euros.

ERC Consolidator Grants

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. The funding per grant is about two million euros.

ERC Starting Grants

ERC Starting Grants are awarded to talented young scientists, with over three and up to eight years of experience since completion of PhD. The 1.5 milion euro grants give them the opportunity to form their own research group.

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

ERC Proof of Concept Grants are designed to support ERC grantees with the commercial or societal application of the results of their funded research.

Horizon Europe Collaborative Grants

Horizon Europe supports collaborative projects that tackle global challenges, drive innovation, and create lasting societal impact.

Memberships

Researchers at Radboud University are members of Academia Europaea, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the Young Academy and several other honorary institutions.