The 2020 call for the Comenius education grants is out! Comenius funds teaching innovation projects in higher education and enable professionals in higher education to implement their ideas in practice. It focuses on excellence in education, and is intended to stimulate education careers.
You are invited to apply for the teaching and senior fellowships. If interested in the senior ones, please contact Joost Dijkstra and/or Merle Achten.
About the Comenius programme
Each year, NRO (Netherlands Initiative for Education Research) launches a call for proposals for:
- Teacher grants – €50,000, one-year project, small-scale innovation;
- Senior grants – €100,000, two-year project in a large programme, faculty or substantial department of a higher education institution;
- Leadership grants* – €500,000, three-year project, innovation in one or more faculties or a complete institution. NB: UM is not allowed to apply for a leadership grant in 2020 since it was honored a leadership grant for the project ‘Global Citizenship Education’ in 2019.
Themes Comenius 2020
- Inclusive Education
- Bildung / Identity formation
- Connecting to society
- Open theme: linked to strategic agenda higher education and research 2015-2025
Deadlines Comenius 2020 Teaching fellow/Senior fellow
- Deadline declaration of intent 10 September 2019/3 September 2019
- Deadline pre-proposal 8 October 2019/1 October 2019
- Deadline proposal 9 January 2020/3 December 2019
EDLAB writing support
To support all UM grant-writers, EDLAB will organise two information and writing sessions. Besides learning more about the Comenius process and preconditions, it allows you to meet (previous) applicants from different faculties and discuss your topics. In case you wish to join, write an e-mail to walter.jansen@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Session #1: 20 August 2019, 10.00-12.30
- Technical support: information about the call and preconditions for writing;
- Knowledge exchange: pitch ideas, give and provide peer-feedback and explore interfaculty-network opportunities;
- Learn from the experiences of previous (successful) applicants.
- Lunch is included
Session #2: 12 November 2019, 10.00-12.30
- Peer-feedback on draft proposals.
- Lunch is included