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Review of the Research Institute for History and - Universiteit Utrecht

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University funding<br />

The University provides <strong>the</strong> following types <strong>of</strong> specifi c research funding, via <strong>the</strong> Faculty, or directly from <strong>the</strong><br />

University Board:<br />

a. Tenured faculty has a fi xed amount <strong>of</strong> nominal research time—30 % <strong>for</strong> assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essors, 40 % <strong>for</strong><br />

associate <strong>and</strong> full pr<strong>of</strong>essors—which is funded through <strong>the</strong> fi ve Teaching <strong>Institute</strong>s <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>re<strong>for</strong>e not included<br />

in <strong>the</strong> OGC budget.<br />

b. OGC itself receives a lump sum from <strong>the</strong> Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts. This lump sum covers such expenses as:<br />

• Salaries <strong>for</strong> PhDs<br />

• Management <strong>and</strong> management support<br />

• Travel abroad by all tenured <strong>and</strong> non-tenured faculty<br />

• Conferences <strong>and</strong> workshops organized under <strong>the</strong> aegis <strong>of</strong> OGC<br />

• Operational costs (<strong>for</strong> PhD students, postdocs <strong>and</strong> management), such as computers<br />

In 2004, a redistribution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> research funds from <strong>the</strong> Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts between <strong>the</strong> two research institutes<br />

was decided on, which was favourable <strong>for</strong> OGC.<br />

c. By special arrangement, additional fi nancing is available <strong>for</strong> each successful dissertation defence in <strong>the</strong><br />

International PhD programme. This money is used to provide grants <strong>for</strong> particular international PhD-students,<br />

who are not employees <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> university, but have student status, <strong>and</strong> in fact fund <strong>the</strong>mselves through<br />

<strong>the</strong> successful completion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir dissertations.<br />

d. The University Board provides additional specifi c funding <strong>for</strong>:<br />

• Special projects (Scenarios <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Humanities/BINT)<br />

• Matching NWO projects in <strong>the</strong> VeniVidiVici-programme<br />

• Royal Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences Fellowships<br />

• Grotius fellowships<br />

• Infrastructure (or Penvoerderschapsgelden in Dutch) <strong>for</strong> three National <strong>Research</strong> Schools <strong>of</strong>fi cially administered<br />

in <strong>Utrecht</strong> <strong>and</strong> connected to OGC: those <strong>for</strong> Art <strong>History</strong>, Literary Studies <strong>and</strong> Gender Studies.<br />

Governmental <strong>and</strong> public funding<br />

NWO is <strong>the</strong> major science funding organization <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> humanities in <strong>the</strong> Ne<strong>the</strong>rl<strong>and</strong>s. EU funding is<br />

included under this heading because it also comes from government sources <strong>and</strong> is given under similar conditions.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> period under review NWO provided research funding <strong>for</strong> 49 PhD-students, 48 Postdocs, <strong>and</strong> 16<br />

faculty (see Table B.12). This included:<br />

• Individual Postdoc projects<br />

• Projects in <strong>the</strong> VeniVidiVici-programme<br />

• Programmatic research<br />

• Projects in <strong>the</strong> Flemish/Dutch programme<br />

Projects in <strong>the</strong> “Trans<strong>for</strong>mation in Art <strong>and</strong> Culture” <strong>and</strong> “Cultural Change <strong>and</strong> Foundations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Humanities” programmes<br />

• Special funding, mainly Aspasia <strong>and</strong> so called Van der Leeuw-chairs<br />

• Digitalisation projects<br />

• International collaboration projects<br />

• Travel-grants <strong>for</strong> Postdocs <strong>and</strong> PhD-students<br />

• Funding <strong>for</strong> translations<br />

In <strong>the</strong> period under review European funding was provided through:<br />

• Fifth Framework<br />

• Sixth Framework<br />

• Marie Curie Programme<br />

• European Science Foundation<br />

OGC <strong>Research</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Culture<br />

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