Grants

UM-BIC Interdisciplinary Seeding Grants

This grant program provides seed money for interdisciplinary research projects with an explicit focus on the initiation of interdisciplinary collaborations related to the focal research areas of SBE, Sustainable Development, Digitalization and Globalization. These projects should form the basis for large grant applications in the future.

Projects funded so far:

• "Selfish when uncertain? A physiological and behavioral assessment" (2024) - Project team: Daylin Góngora Lleonart, Arno  Riedl, Conny Quaedflieg
• "Moderation of the effect of financial constraints on risk attitudes by guaranteed outcomes" (2024) - Project team: Anouk Festjens, Jona Linde, Evert Webers, Niek Hensen
• "Generative AI and Work – Experimental evidence for the healthcare" (2024) - Project team: Didier Fouarge, Mark Levels, Marie-Christine Fregin
• "Norms make investors socially responsible" (2023) - Project team: Alexander Vostroknutov & Peiran Jiao
• "The dynamics of belief updating and the role of social identity" (2023) - Project team: Elias Tsakas, Giannis Lois, Kenneth Yue & Arno Riedl
• "Excitement in digital marketing: from videos to virtual reality" (2023) - Tim Hilken, Sammy Wals, Ines Wilms & Alexia Briassouli
• “How uncertainties shape social preferences and their underlying neuronal processes” (2022) - Project team: Arno Riedl, Conny Quaedflieg and Anne Friesacher
• “The effect of choice architecture on pension information processing and decision making” (2022) - Project team: Peiran Jiao, Aline Dantas, Jenna Barrett and Thomas Post
• “Facts vs. feelings: Financial well-being correspondence” (2021) - Project team: Lisa Brüggen, Jenna Barrett, Jens Hogreve and Jan van den Brakel

UM-BIC Seeding Grants for Research Developed In Co-Creation with Practice

This grant program provides funding for research initiatives developed together with societal stakeholders to establish long-term relationships with policy and practice. These research initiatives should have the potential to become the basis for larger projects and external funding applications.

Both seeding grants are open to all members of UM-BIC that are employed at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics, and who are eligible for third party funding. Main applicants should be (assistant/associate/full) professors and post-docs. PhD students can be part of the research team.

Projects funded so far:

• "Hand Washing Angels - Open science infrastructure! (2023) - Research team: Edward Huizenga, Serena Domingos, Stefan Phang
• "Testing TeamELo"  (2023) - Research team: Jona Linde, Thomas de Haan
• "Eco-Innovations: Transforming Hotel Habits for a Greener Future" (2023) - Research team: Tim Döring, Chekitan Dev
• "Energy price expectations and household conservation behavior" (2023) - Research team: Juan Palacios, Linde Kattenberg

• "Labour market information on study choice: One-size–fits-all?" (2022) - Research team: Didier Fouarge, Annemarie Künn-Nelen, and Sandra Perez Rodriguez

• "Measuring the Propensity to Spread Fake-News on Social Media: Leveraging the `Wisdom of the Crowds’ and Multilevel Regression with Post-stratification to make Representative Inference’" (2022) - Research team: Roberto Cerina, Giulia Piccillo, and Francois t’Serstevens

UM-BIC Support for Collaborative Grant Applications

We offer support to our members who take a substantial role in the context of collaborative grant applications related to programs of NWO, Horizon Europe or other institutions that involve external partners and scholars from other universities and across scientific disciplines. Applications for this type of support are possible on an ongoing basis. If you are interested in support related to collaborative grant applications, please contact us.