11th Call for grant proposals (Spring 2025)
In line with the previous round, A Sustainable Future (ASF) welcomes three typologies of grant to support EB sustainability research and outreach projects. The distinctive trait of the call remains the special focus on UvA EB junior faculty and cross-school collaborations.
Submission details
| Deadline: | 9 May 2025 |
| Submission: | Open for submission |
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1. Cross-school (and cross faculty) research applications: up to 15K Euro for research proposals involving faculty members from both the School of Economics and the Business School, or with researchers from other UvA UvA Faculties. Preference will be given to projects indicating an UvA EB junior faculty member (PhD students, Post-docs, tenure-track assistant professors, level II associate professors) as principal investor (PI). External researchers (i.e., researchers not affiliated with UvA EB) are welcome to participate in the project as team members and must be mentioned in the application form. However, external researchers are not grant recipients and cannot be indicated as the PI. |
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2. Junior faculty research applications: up to 10K Euro for research proposals involving only UvA EB junior faculty members in the team of applicants. |
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| 3. General applications (including outreach): up to 10K Euro for research projects not fitting the previous categories, new course proposals, and outreach initiatives. | |
| Please make sure to list all (internal and external) team members involved in the application. We aim to dedicate two-thirds of the total amount available to applications of the first and second categories. |
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| Eligible expenses |
• Data access and collection (including secondary data and databses), participants surveys, experiments, research material and computing costs |
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• Research assistants (RA rate standardized: 60 Euro per hour gross, hired via Studijob, and including UvA overhead) |
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| • Conferences/research travels/visitor proposals (according to UvA policy concerning Sustainable travel) | |
| • Outreach initiatives (e.g., workshops, panel sessions, roundtables) | |
| Note: Before drafting the project budget, please read more about the eligible expenses at https://asf.uva.nl/grants/research-grants.html. | |
| Decision: | by 25 June 2025 |
| Total budget: | Maximum 100K Euro |
| Decision process: | Proposals will be evaluated by the ASF Scientific Committee, approved by the ABS and ASE Research Directors. |
Selection criteria
The selection will be made according to the following criteria:
1. Quality of the proposal (45%):
- Academic relevance of the problem
- Innovative character (e.g., new concepts or theory, methods, new data)
- Feasibility of the research plan
- Societal impact of the proposal
2. Fit with the ASF Goals (40%)
3. Efficient use of the amount of money requested, outlined in a detailed budget section (15%)
Furthermore
ASF may grant only a fraction of the amount requested by the applicant(s). Applying for top-up funding is possible in only one of the next grant rounds if indicated so by the final decision.
Any UvA EB faculty members, including UvA internal PhD students, can apply (the call is not open for external EB faculty). Receiving funding implies agreeing to report after two years from the reception of the grant and acknowledge the ASF grant in any publications or events associated with the successful application. The ASF grant budget can only be used for activities specified in the project application. Budget repurposing may be possible but it must be approved by the ASF Scientific Committee. Unused ASF grant budget will be transferred back to the ASF research account. The ASF grant budget cannot be transferred to other institutions and can be used only until the PI is affiliated with the EB faculty.
ASF grant holders are expected to participate in ASF activities (including seminars and outreach events) and present their research.
For this round each faculty member can appear as PI in a maximum of two proposals and will get a maximum of one proposal accepted. However, faculty members can participate in multiple applications as team members.
If an application is rejected, the UvA EB faculty member is eligible to participate in future calls with a new proposal. In specific circumstances, ASF can invite the re-submission of an updated version of the previously rejected proposal.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding this call for grant, please contact us.