General information
The Brain and Cognition research priority program of the UvA, ABC, provides funding to promote innovative and excellent research in the area of brain and cognitive sciences.
ABC grants are intended to motivate and enhance interfaculty research collaborations that are of an interdisciplinary nature. The overall mission is to come to a better understanding of the mechanisms of cognition, from perception to decision making, from language to music, and from memory to consciousness. The ABC encourages collaborative projects in which more than one faculty is involved and where there is an integrated plan of how to address a key question in brain and cognitive sciences in an innovative and interdisciplinary fashion.
For all five funds, only ABC members with a completed PhD, and who have an appointment of at least 0.5 fte at the UvA or AMC, are eligible.
Proposals for each of these grants need to be supported by an UvA host institute that commits to providing matching funds when such are necessary for the successful completion of the proposed project.
Independent Evaluation Committees, consisting of ABC members, will select the Project Grant and Talent Grant winners.
The Board of Directors will make decisions regarding the winners of the ABC VIP grant, the ABC Seed Funding for Network Consolidation and the ABC Award.
An independent committee of experts in the involved disciplines will assess the submissions for the ABC Project Grant. The ABC board has no involvement in the evaluation of the ABC Project grant submissions, but will implement the ranking provided by the independent committee, dependent on the available funds.
In the review process the following weighted criteria will be used:
excellent, innovative and feasible |
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40% | |
a) interdisciplinary focus, involvement of at least two different faculties and disciplines b) match with one or more ABC Themes and Transversal Perspectives |
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20%. |
Female PI’s are especially encouraged to apply.
1 postdoc or 1 PhD student for 2 years*, max. 250k€
Deadline: January 31, 2021
Aim: funding new interdisciplinary research projects
Applicants: ABC members with at least 0.5 FTE appointment at UvA or AMC, not the to be appointed Post doc. Intended Post doc is not necessarily known in the proposal.
Eligibility Criteria:
Selection Criteria:
a) interdisciplinary focus, involvement of at least two different faculties and disciplines;
b) match with one or more ABC Themes and Transversal Perspectives
N.B.:
*In case of clinical research with patients, a request can be made to extend the funding to a longer period. This should be included in the budget estimation.
The proposal should be submitted by a full ABC member (not the to be appointed Post doc) and include information about the content and innovation of the project, possible collaborations within the ABC and in which faculty the Post doc will be appointed.
Proposals will only be considered if there is no ongoing ABC Project or Talent funding for the main applicant.
The grant consists of a lump sum of €250k. The faculty where the Post doc will be appointed should match any exceeding of this budget.
Next deadline: 15 April 2021
Aim: To give high potential young researchers the opportunity to collect (pilot) data and apply for an external research grant.
Applicants:: ABC members with at least 0.5 FTE appointment at UvA or AMC, not the to be appointed Post doc.
Intended Post doc is known in the proposal.
Criteria (applicable to the Talent/intended Post doc)
Eligibility Criteria
Selection Criteria
A Post doc can only receive an ABC Grant once.
The intended Talent (Post doc) cannot have a permanent research position at the UvA.
Proposals will only be considered if there is no ongoing ABC Project or Talent funding for the main applicant.
In the review process the different elements in the proposal will be weighed as follows:
CV: 40%, proposal: 40%, ABC nature: 20%.
Travel and accommodation expenses, max. €7.500
Next Deadline: 15 April 2021
Aim: Increasing the visibility and (inter)national reputation of ABC
Who can apply: ABC members
Criteria:
Deadline: 01 June 2021
Who can apply: ABC members
Aim: Awarding excellent and motivated members of ABC, who have shown great commitment and involvement in the development of Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, and are examples for conducting interdisciplinary research in the field of Brain and Cognition.
Who can nominate: ABC members
Selections will be based on nominations by fellow ABC members.
Criteria: