
Call for proposals: Sprint projects 2025
Do you have a concrete scientific or educational idea to foster a healthy start for next generations? The Healthy Starters Fund can help you to develop your ideas. Submit your Sprint project proposal before 21 November 2024, 11:00 CET.
Healthy Start invites researchers and their non-academic partners to submit proposals for:
- Concrete activities with external stakeholders to co-develop or co-deliver knowledge, and/or
- Concrete activities to test outcomes of ongoing interdisciplinary Healthy Start research with stakeholders in Living Lab setting, and/or
- Outreach activities bridging interdisciplinary science activities and society, and/or
- Concrete interdisciplinary activities to innovate existing education programs/courses, and/or
- New (extra-curricular) impact driven educational activities
Who can apply
All academic staff members of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Erasmus MC (EMC) and TU Delft (TUD), including lecturers, medical doctors, tenure trackers, post-docs and PhD-students can submit a proposal. The application should be submitted by an interdisciplinary couple of two academic staff members of Erasmus University, Erasmus MC or TU Delft (including clinicians, ‘tenure trackers’, lecturers, post-docs and PhD-students), being the main applicant and co-applicant. Projects should involve at least one external partner in the project as co-applicant, with a concrete contribution to the project.
To ensure that the Sprint projects contribute to the Healthy Start mission and ambitions, please contact the appointed research theme leads to inform them about your project idea. Contact details per research theme can be found here.
How to apply
The deadline for applications is Thursday 21 November 2024, 11:00 CET. Applicants should fill out the Application Form, including the support letters, and send it as a single PDF–file to healthystart@convergence.nl before the deadline.
Contact for questions
Programme manager Puck van de Bovenkamp: p.a.vandebovenkamp@tudelft.nl.