Funded grants applications - Spring 2025
We are happy to announce that 11 projects have been granted funding after our call for grants in the Spring 2025. Please find an overview.
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A Sustainable Future
Platform for a broader research agenda
A Sustainable Future (ASF) is a research platform integrating the Amsterdam School of Economics and the Amsterdam Business School research on key societal themes. The platform takes inspirations from the sustainability themes recommended by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is endorsed by our university's Executive Board.
Highlights
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Hiring bias in recruitment
A recent study by Alejandro Hirmas and Jan Hausfeld (both with the Amsterdam School of Economics Microeconomics section) explores how intermediaries form beliefs about hiring managers’ preferences and whether these ...Alejandro Hirmas - Granted project (Round 2023) -
What kind of recycling system works best for consumers?
After moving from Italy to the Netherlands, Martina Cossu (ABS Marketing section) was struck by the significant differences in how recycling systems were categorised. This led her question how such changes could ...Martina Cossu - Granted project (Round 2022) -
Becoming a Purpose-Driven Firm
There are 3 Amsterdam Business School (ABS) researchers involved in the study on purpose-driven firms: Zahra Kashanizadeh, Henk Volberda and Pushpika Vishwanathan and a researcher from Leeds University Business ...Zahra Kashanizadeh - Granted project (Round 2022)
Upcoming events
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SEEMS Seminar with Natalie Lee (ASE, UvA) & Joeri Sol (ABS, UvA)
15 Sep 2025"Determinants of public opinion on meat tax in California" & "The value of statistical species: Exploring a new biodiversity conservation measure for cost-benefit analysis"Read more -
SEEMS Seminar with Terrence Iverson (Colorado State University)
29 Sep 2025Terrence Iverson (Colorado State University) will present his research "Tiered Climate Clubs: Global Abatement Without Global Agreement" in the SEEMS seminar on September 29, 2025.Read more -
Seminars on Environmental Economics and Management of Sustainability
The number of researchers at UvA Economics & Business that work on Environmental Economics and Sustainability has increased significantly over the past years. To provide a natural meeting place for them, we have ...Read more about the SEEMS Seminars
About the ASF platform
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Goals
We aim at promoting the broadest contribution of business and economic scholarship to pressing societal needsRead more about our goals -
Grants applications and eligible expenses
A Sustainable Future (ASF) offers small research grants for faculty members of the Amsterdam School of Economics and the Amsterdam Business School.Read more -
Staff
A Sustainable Future is meant as a diffused initiative rather than a research centre, and will therefore be based on active participation and research relevance.Read more