Thriving and Healthy Youth – Identifying risk, Increasing strength

In follow-up of the meet-up on February 3^rd the Thriving and Healthy Youth community opened a call to stimulate inter-departmental collaboration around the theme resilience. Do you have a research idea in collaboration with a UU colleague from another department and/or faculty? We may then be able to support you! We can offer maximum €5000,- funding per project. The submission deadline is April 7^th 2026.

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.

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. 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. Funding will be subject to availability and can be adjusted to your specific needs, in close contact with the community chairs.

For junior researchers (i.e., PhD students and postdoc researchers) the funding may be used to extend their current position, with one to 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 only UU researchers can benefit from this financial support, but collaborations with societal partners are possible and encouraged.

Odilia Laceulle, Heidi Lesscher and Sanne Nijhof (community chairs)

Anouk Aleva and Anouk Vroegindeweij (community postdocs)

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