{"id":147084,"date":"2022-11-24T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=147084"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:31","slug":"new-grant-in-honour-of-late-professor-charles-boucher-awarded-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/11\/24\/new-grant-in-honour-of-late-professor-charles-boucher-awarded-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New grant in honour of late professor Charles Boucher awarded for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The grant scheme has been created by former medical honours students to honour the late professor Charles Boucher. Last month saw the grant being awarded for the first time to social projects run by students in healthcare.<\/p>\n

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The winner, medical student Froukje van Gelder (20) at Erasmus MC<\/span><\/p>

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Three projects were recipients of the Charles Boucher grant: an e-learning module on dyslexia, a collective for diversity in healthcare, and resuscitation lessons in secondary schools.<\/p>\n\t

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The grants is awarded by the Erasmus MC Honours Class Alumni Society, in collaboration with the Erasmus Trustfonds and the student organisation Geneeskunde in de Samenleving.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n

Each year, students can apply for a grant of at most 7,500 euros by submitting their idea for a project before September. \u201cWe aim to keep the grant as accessible as possible to enable healthcare students at all levels of education to apply\u201d, explains Julia Postmes (25), sixth-year medical student at Erasmus MC (EMC), board member of the Charles Boucher grant. All winners receive the funds they need. Julia does not want to tell who much that is exactly.<\/p>\n

The funds for the grant come from the sales of revision guides for end-of-year exams, which medical students compile voluntarily. \u201cWe decided to sell the guides so that we could do something beneficial for society with the money\u201d, says Julia. This led to the creation of the Charles Boucher grant scheme last year.<\/p>\n

Charles Boucher\u2019s philosophy<\/h2>

The grant scheme takes its name and civic spirit from professor Charles Boucher, founder and mentor of the Medicine honours programme. As a doctor, he made a significant contribution to the current effective HIV treatments. Boucher passed away two years ago at the age of 63.<\/p>\n\n\t

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