NWO Vidi 2016 open

NWO invites applications for the Vidi-call within the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (Vernieuwingsimpuls). Deadline for submitting proposals is October 6, 2016. This form of grant is targeted at researchers who have completed their doctorates and already spent some years conducting post-doctoral research, thereby demonstrating the ability to generate new ideas and bring them independently to fruition. Each researcher receives € 800,000 for a period of five years.The Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni, Vidi, Vici has been set up in 2000 by NWO, KNAW and the universities jointly. The aim is to promote innovation in the academic research field. The scheme is directed at providing encouragement for individual researchers and gives talented, creative researchers the opportunity to conduct their own research programme independently and promote talented researchers to enter and remain committed to the scientific profession.