Career opportunities for Young Scientists!

1. Career opportunities for Young Scientists! Laura PanderNWO Grant AdvisorValorisation Centre Anouschka VersleijenProgr. Man. Gov. Valorisation Centre

2. Funding? Why should I care • Financial story? • US example? • Current project? • Me! (personal perspective) -> future career!! Develop research idea’s, research lines etc. Content of research: Meaningful

3. Financial Perspective Academic Research in the Netherlands Netherlands: 0.5% BBP on Academic Research Approx 75% through direct funding of universities (1e geldstroom) Interesting part of funding for individual researcher = 2e / 3e geldstroom 2007: NWO grants to universities: € 285 Mio. EU 7th FP grants to the Netherlands: € 342 Mio.* SenterNovem:€ 400 Mio. ** * 2/3 to public research institutes ** estimated 1/3 to public research inst

4. Financial perspective TUD Rise in ‘werk derden’ TU Delft during timeframe 2000-2007 to 23% Important background info, however Don’t let this guide your perspective ! Let content be your guide !

5. Plasterk Dijkgraaf Borst US Research University model: Competitively acquire all funding Direct result: • PhD – develop your own research idea • Netherlands: Not there yet Get best out of current organisational model

6. Current Project • Who funds your current (PhD) project? • What where the goals of the program that funds your current project? • What is the text of the project proposal of your current project? Learn from current project Develop ‘nose’ for scientific and societal relevance

7. Academic Funding 101 1. Research Themes: Public grants: NWO Private grants: funding by private 3rd parties (industry etc) Public Private Partnerships: grants by SenterNovem / EU 2. Personal Grants: Public grants: NWO & EU Private grants: occaisional prize (Heinenken Award, Shell award etc)

8. Research Themes for BK: • Underdevelopped! Currently not that many grant programs especially on architecture/building/city planning etc. Use it or lose it !! Use of existing programs by TUD research can be optimized! Simultaneously: TUD is making an effort to stress the scientific and societal value of this type of research -> In future more dedicated grant schemes could become available. Example: Current crisis-measures EU: emphasis on built environment

9. NWO Vrije Competitie Titel: Woonbeleving en woningkeuzegedrag Hoofdaanvrager:Prof. dr. P.J. Boelhouwer Onderzoeksinstituut OTB Uitvoerder(s):Ir. J. Meesters Looptijd:02/19/2001 - 12/19/2007 Budget: Eur 135,814.00 voor personele kostenEur 4,131.00 voor materiële kosten NWO Theme: GAMON (Gamma onderzoek milieu, omgeving, natuur) Titel: Instruments for internalising landscape values in urban rural interplay processes. Hoofdaanvrager:Prof. dr. W.K. Korthals Altes Onderzoeksinstituut OTBUitvoerder(s):Dr. mr. ir. H.E. van Rij Looptijd:11/01/2004 - 10/31/2008 Budget: Eur 157,683.00 voor personele kostenEur 15,538.00 voor materiële kosten Examples

10. Academic funding: tips & tricks Most important: Track Record: you have to be able to show that you are a trustworthy academic person to invest a large sum of money in!! Build: • Academic publication list • Track record of working in academic consortia (use academic conferences to initiate seeds of academic cooperation (co-publication) • Track record of working in public private consortia

11. Skills to build during your PhD • Analytical mind • Develop your own research ideas (actively develop your talent) • Think about context (scientific and societal relevance) • Feasibility of research • Realistic planning of a project (training courses) • Project formulation and implementation (training courses) Think about the future: What should your track record should look like in a couple of years in terms of: • Publications • Grants (and prizes?) • International experience or activities • Network  (scientific and industrial/societal) • Dedication level

12. Training to develop skills Training at TU Delft/Research School but also: Yearly NWO Talent Classes: small fee (usually around 90 euro) See http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6KJD5L • 21st Century career development (Engels) • Write it right (Engels) • Netwerken, hoe doe je dat? • Kernachtig formuleren • Subsidies aanvragen • Creatief denken, wetenschappelijk verantwoord! • Onderhandelen • People, politics and power (Engels) • Marketing yourself effectively (Engels)

13. Grants for young scientists • Mozaïek (NWO – PhD for ethnic minority) • Rubicon (NWO – Scope widening Post-doc (abroad)) • Veni (NWO – Top quality (0-3y past PhD) • Marie Curie (EC – 7th Framework Programme) In general: Not many grants where young scientist can apply for funding for their own PhD project. Even if older staff member applies for funding -> not always possible to aqcuire funding for a PhD position that has already started

14. What is NWO? The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research STW NWO Ministery of Education, Culture and Science GW MaGW ALW etc

15. Mozaïek: PhD for ethnic minority WHY • Ethnic minorities are currently under-represented in Dutch academic research. • This programme aims at helping representatives of ethnic minorities into the world of science. graduates or final-year students of non-western ethnic decent who • have been resident in the Netherlands for at least 5 years • both of the applicant’s parents – or the applicant and minimally one parent – must have been born in one of the specified countries. A four-year period of doctoral research, the maximum contribution is 200,000 euro WHO WHAT

16. Rubicon: Talented Post-doc(abroad) WHY • The aim of the Rubicon programme is to encourage talented researchers at Dutch universities and research institutes run by KNAW and NWO to pursue a scope-widening post-doc career. • Researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year A period of up to two years at an institution outside the Netherlands (or in exeptional cases a period of one year at a highly rated top quality Dutch institution (not the one where the PhD was obtained)). WHO WHAT

17. VENI: top quality (0-3 years past PhD) WHY The VENI offers young researchers who have recently completed their PhD the opportunityto develop their own innovative research idea. • Researchers who have only recently completed their doctorates (0-3 years ago) • Top 10% researchers • Excellent track record (refereed journal publications, awards) • Also for foreign researchers who would like to carry out their research in the Netherlands • Original (frontier) research the opportunity to develop their own innovative research idea for three years. The maximum amount of grant is € 250,000 (for salary of applicant. WHO WHAT

18. European CommissionDirectorate Research and Innovation

19. 7th Framework Programme

20. People Marie Curie Life long learning and career development: • Training of young researchers Initial Training Networks • Partnerships between industry and academia Exchange of personnel • Individual fellowships for experienced researchers

21. EURAXESS Jobs • information on job vacancies, funding opportunities and fellowships for researchers • Website: ec.europa.eu/euraxess/

22. Valorisation Centre Offers support during • The development of ideas • The submittance of a proposal • Contract negotiations • Project management

23. Grant advisors of the Valoriation Centre • NWO Grants, People Marie Curie Laura Pander l.s.pander@tudelft.nl • SenterNovem Regina Edoo f.d.edoo@tudelft.nl • European Grants, FP7 and other Theresia Twickler t.m.g.twickler@tudelft.nl