Review of the Research Institute for History and - Universiteit Utrecht

Table B.5 Funding and expenditure at institutional level, 1997-2004
The total budget was 2.5 million euros in 1997, and 5.8 million euros in 2004. The budget as a whole therefore
increased by 135%. These fi gures are, however, seriously misleading. Included in the numbers for direct
funding are the budgets for the three National Research School administered by OGC (NOV and OSK for
the whole period, OSL since 2003), the budgets for the expertise-centrums (Internationals Offi ce and GEM),
the IEAH administration (since 2002) and the budget for University Chairs (Van Oostrom since 2002 and
Philipse since 2004). In the period 1997-2004, the rise of the budget of the OGC proper has been approximately
30%. This was partly due to a favourable rearrangement of budgets between the research institutes,
partly because of some compensation for salary increases. Nevertheless, cost increase (especially salaries for
PhD-students) has been much higher. The increase in expenditure of personnel costs for the OGC as a whole
from 1.6 Million in 1997 till 5.1 Million in 2004 is partly due to these rising costs and partly to growth in
number of appointments. In 1997 NWO and VSNU agreed to transfer all NWO research money—and thus
the costs of employment—to the universities. That explains that only from 1998 on these funds appear in the
OGC-budget.
Table B.6 Funding of all research time (tenured staff, non tenured staff, PhDs)
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
University funding 67% 68% 70% 70% 75% 72% 70% 74%
Governmental/public funding 26% 25% 18% 18% 16% 18% 20% 19%
Non Governmental funding 7% 7% 12% 12% 9% 10% 10% 7%
Total research staff 100% 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
It is important to realize that these percentages represent something different than the fi gures in Table B.5.
Included in the percentage of university funding is the research time of faculty appointed in the teaching
institutes. These institutes administer their own budgets and thus the incomes/expenses for research time of
their faculty don’t appear in the OGC-budget of Table B.5.
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