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 stimulate 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 the brain and cognitive sciences in an innovative and interdisciplinary fashion.
The ABC supports four different types of grants.
For all four funds, only members of ABC with a completed PhD, and who have at least 0.5 FTE appointment at the UvA or AMC, can apply.
Proposals for each of these grants need to be supported by one of the host institutes in the UvA who have committed themselves to provide matching funds when such are necessary for the successful completion of the proposed project.
In principle, the grants should start within one year after reception.
The board of the ABC will make decisions for the ABC Talent grant, ABC VIP grant and ABC Symposium grant, as well as the ABC x IAS grant.
ABC Project grant
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 weights will be used: quality of the proposed research: 0.5, interdisciplinary focus: 0.3, quality applicants: 0.2.
Female PI’s are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline: January 31, 2020
Aim: funding new interdisciplinary research projects
Criteria:
The proposal should be submitted by a full ABC member (not the to be appointed postdoc) and include information about the content and innovativeness of the project, possible collaborations within the ABC and in which faculty the postdoc will be appointed.
Proposals will only be considered if there is no ongoing ABC Project or Talent funding.
The grant consists of a lump sum of €250k. The faculty where the postdoc will be appointed should match any exceeding of this budget.
Next deadlines: 15 April 2020, 15 September 2020
Aim: The grant offers a bridging period for high potential postdocs who aim to apply or have applied for an external research grant.
Who can apply: ABC members, not the to be appointed postdoc
Criteria:
A postdoc can only receive an ABC Grant once.
To be appointed postdocs, who already hold a permanent position at the UvA are not eligible.
Proposals will only be considered if there is no ongoing ABC Project or Talent funding.
In the review process the different elements in the proposal will be weighed as follows: cv: 50%, proposal: 30%, interdisciplinary nature: 20%.
Deadlines: 15 April 2020, 15 September 2020
Aim: Increasing the visibility and (inter)national reputation of ABC
Who can apply: ABC members
Criteria:
Deadlines: to be announced
Aim: Increasing the visibility of ABC and supporting inspiring interdisciplinary encounters.
Who can apply: ABC members
Criteria: