{"id":153303,"date":"2023-04-14T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=153303"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:44","slug":"sixteen-young-researchers-to-go-abroad-with-rubicon-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/04\/14\/sixteen-young-researchers-to-go-abroad-with-rubicon-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen young researchers to go abroad with Rubicon funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research funders NWO and ZonMw are giving sixteen newly-graduated researchers a Rubicon grant to gain experience at a foreign institute. Almost forty percent of the grant applications were approved. Erasmus MC won two grants.<\/p>\n

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The Rubicon grant recipients, nine men and seven women, are almost all going abroad for a period of two years. Seven chose to go to the USA, two to the UK, and the rest to South Africa, Israel, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal or Belgium.<\/p>\n

Their research activities will include creating human bone replacements using 3D printers, understanding how the brain stores memories, and building superfast electronic switches.<\/p>\n

Forty-two applications were submitted for this third and last round<\/a> of Rubicon grants in 2022, of which 38.5 percent were approved. The funders, NWO and ZonMw, approve about sixty of these grants every year.<\/p>\n

The Rubicon grant is popular<\/a> and has made it possible for young researchers to spend one or two years working abroad since 2005. But those who did not get this grant need not worry: it has not been shown<\/a> that the grant has a significant effect on a research career.<\/p>\n\n\t

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