The Thriving & Healthy Youth community within Dynamics of Youth aims to integrate multidisciplinary knowledge on both maladaptive and adaptive features to take the next step in understanding youth resilience, developing prevention strategies and promoting care to foster our future generations. Our research covers the entire developmental range of children from 0 to 25 years, with a particular focus on primary school age and adolescent age children.

We have two open calls to:

• Facilitate the use of open (cohort) data

and

• Facilitate junior researchers to engage in interfaculty collaborations

both with the purpose of stimulating interdisciplinary research around youth resilience and health.

The activities that we support should be in line with the core values of Dynamics of Youth and our community : co-creation, interdisciplinary research (or education), co-ownership, creativity and playfulness. The applicants are expected to engage in and contribute to the community, while respecting the autonomy of the researchers. We encourage you to take initiative, to take control, to bear responsibility, to feel confident to reach out to others and be part of the Dynamics of Youth community.

We envision a light and low-threshold application process, and encourage you to write concise applications. To support open (cohort) data usage, funding can be on average €2000,-. For the junior researchers we have on average €6000,- available. Funding will subject to availability and can be adjusted to your specific needs, in close contact with the community chairs.

For the junior researchers (i.e., PhD students and postdoc researchers) the funding may be used to extend their current position with on average of two months. This extension is meant to stimulate you to venture out of the boundaries of your current research project and engage with researchers from other faculties of the UU (including the UMC). Note that an interdisciplinary relation does not need to be established prior to applying. In fact, part of the funding can be allocated to help refine your research plans, and explore possibilities for collaborations – we and the Thriving and Healthy Youth community can help you with that.

Note that only UU researchers can benefit from this financial support.

Please submit both forms via e-mail to thriving.youth@uu.nl