Financial support available for research activities

The community Youth Education & Life Skills, YELS for short, offers financial support for research activities to kickstart the community.

YELS focuses on how education empowers young people. This not only relates to basic skills and basic knowledge, but also to learning and practicing the ‘life skills’ with which young people can shape their future. Education is central to this community. Not only in the school context with all its tracks and levels but also in educational programs outside this context such as museums. See for more information about our activities the website: https://www.uu.nl/en/research/dynamics-of-youth/research/communities/youth-education-life-skills.

You can apply for financial support for activities that fit the scope of YELS. These activities should ideally be largely in line with our core values: co creation, multidisciplinary, co-ownership and creativity and playfulness. We consider it crucial to engage in co-creation with researchers, youth and societal partners (such as teachers, parents, youth professionals, policy makers) to have impact beyond academia. Moreover, the societal challenges our youth encounters, are complex and often multifaced. Interdisciplinary research provides opportunities to advance our understanding of the topic and spark innovative ways to face and change the future. Furthermore, researchers will truly engage in this domain and the autonomy of researchers is respected. We encourage to take initiative, to take control, to bear responsibility, to feel confident and capable to both reach out to others and work on the research in co-ownership. Finally, we acknowledge and stimulate creative and playful ways to collaborate and to discover and hopefully cross our own boundaries – boundaries to other researchers, to other disciplines, to adjacent research field, to societal partners, to youth.  

To get you started, we will organize a networking drink Tuesday June 6, 2023 from 15:30h – 17:30h in the Minnaert Brasserie/ Café. You don’t have to sign up for this event.

At the drink, you can meet up with colleagues who are interested in YELS topics and discuss opportunities for research activities such as:

• Start new multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research collaborations
• Prolong existing multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research collaborations
• Generate impact of your research on the scientific community
• Generate impact of your research on practitioners or the general public

(!) Other ideas for research activities that fit our scope and values are eligible for financial support as well.

Note that only UU and UMCU researchers can benefit from this financial support. We welcome proposals with a maximum budget of 10K euros. Deadline for proposals was June 30, 2023.