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The Youth Education & Life Skills (YELS) community offers financial support for research activities and community events. Interested in receiving funding? Please get in touch to discuss the possibilities.

Schools as well as other organizations strive to contribute to the knowledge and skills that young people need to shape their future. YELS focuses on how education empowers young people. We aim to provide evidence-based knowledge and activities to support this goal.

You can apply for financial support for activities that fit the focus of Youth Education & Life Skills and are in line with our core values:

• Co-creation with researchers, youth and (educational) partners.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration.
• A creative and playful approach to discovery.
• Active participation in community building.

What activities can I apply for?

You could apply for research activities such as:

• 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

Proposals should include realizable aims for high quality research output and research dissemination.

What is the available budget?

We welcome multidisciplinary proposals – by researchers from at least two different disciplines. For budget specifications please get in touch.

What are requirements?

You need to be employed at UU or UMCU.

You need to start the project within six months after receiving funding and finish the project within a year.

If you receive funding, we expect that you are available for two community building activities.

1. Share an interview, blogpost or podcast or about the project halfway through
2. Participate in the yearly YELS Project Meet-Up that we organize for our laureates.

With these activities, we aim to further broaden and strengthen the community.