Since fruitful partnerships across disciplines, fields of study and faculties often start with relatively small initiatives or modest exchanges, the RYA presents the annual RYA Cross-Faculty Catapult Grants: 2 grants of € 5K each for a 1-year interdisciplinary initiative. With this grant, RYA wants to provide an incentive for academics to initiate a collaborative initiative across the borders of their own faculty and institute.
Requirements
- The initiative can be anything in the area of research (e.g., expert meeting, field research, resource gathering), education (e.g., a collaborative course inside or outside a curriculum, training, workshops), or outreach (e.g., a series of lectures, the translation of research into other media);
- The initiative must be feasible, innovative, and show potential to lead to longer-term collaboration;
- The initiative must present a new collaboration: the applicants have not received previous joint funding and have not yet published together;
- The organizers present the insights of their initiative at one of the RYA Serendipity Sessions.
Practical requirements
- The organizers need to be affiliated with Radboud University and/or Radboudumc;
- The initiative must include researchers from at least two different faculties and from different institutes;
- Only one application per person per year is allowed;
- It is allowed to apply with an unselected application from last year;
- Persons who were awarded with the RYA cross-faculty catapult grants are no longer eligible;
- RYA members are not allowed to apply, though they could form part of a team.
Timeline
Deadline submission: 31 January 2025
Announcement of results: End of February 2025
Duration of the project: March – December 2025
Submission
Please send the following information to youngacademy [at] ru.nl:
- Names and affiliations of applicants
- Email addresses of applicants
- Description of the initiative
Give a brief description of your collaboration (max. 500 words) in which you show that your initiative meets the above requirements. Please pay attention the initiative’s aim, significance, activities, timeline, and include a budget. - Biography
For each applicant, please give a brief biography (max. 50 words), including your field of expertise and a link to your Radboud University or Radboudumc personal profiles, personal website or relevant social media profile.
Assessment
The Radboud Young Academy board will assess whether your proposal meets the requirements (see above). Among all proposals that meet the requirements, a lottery selects 2 initiatives that will receive the grant.