Prizes and grants

Discover the research at Radboud University that has been awarded grants by the NWO, ERC and various other organizations, and the researches who were awarded prizes for their groundbreaking research.

Klaas Landsman

Spinoza Prize for Klaas Landsman

Stevin Prize for Bas Bloem

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Spinoza Prize & Stevin Prize

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

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.

Radboud Science Awards

Each year, the Radboud Science Awards enable 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

Since 1990, the Executive Board of Radboud University has awarded the Christine Mohrmann stipends to promising female PhD candidates. The objective of the grant is to encourage female researchers to stay in academia after completing their theses.

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.

The European Research Council (ERC) awards grants to Europe's best researchers. Scientists from Radboud University received ERC grants in several categories.

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.

Memberships

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

KNAW members

The Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has approximately 585 members. Membership is awarded on the basis of scientific and scholarly achievement. Members are appointed for life. Find an overview of Radboud University KNAW members.

The Young Academy

The Young Academy is a dynamic and innovative group of top young scientists and scholars with outspoken views about science and scholarship and the related policy. Find Radboud members of the Young Academy.

Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea is an European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Founded in 1988, with over 2,000 members, which include leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics.