UvA grants and external funds
The UvA Teaching and Learning Centres network supports lecturers in finding suitable grants and funding opportunities. On this page, you’ll find an overview of grants and subsidy programmes beyond those offered by the TLC itself. These include both UvA grants and external funds designed specifically for lecturers.
Support with applying for a grant
Are you considering applying for a grant? Whether it’s one of TLC’s educational grants or a larger application, such as Comenius or NKO, TLC’s Sjoukje Kerman will be happy to help you get started or put you in touch with the right people.
UvA Grant Support
If you would like to know more about the various grants and funds available at the UvA, you can also find information on the UvA Grant Support website.
UvA grants
| Fund | Organiser | Theme | Budget | Duration | Call | Deadline |
| Healthy Future Education Grant | IIS | Developing an educational innovation project on the theme of Healthy Future | max. € 6.500 | 1 November 2025 | 30 January 2026 | |
| Teachers’ grant: Affective learning | IIS/ SIG Affective learning | Developing education that strongly promotes cognitive and affective learning | January 2026 | |||
| FMG Impact in Education Seed Grant | FMG | Encouraging new ideas in FMG educational courses | €5.000 | Yearly | ||
| FRIS | IIS / SIG FRIS | Developing a FRIS theme related to educational innovation | €6.500 | 2 year | 1 December 2025 | 30 Januari 2026 |
| SSH Concept Fonds | UvA | Developing concepts based on SSH research | €1.000 tot 95.000 | |||
| TLC FGw Blended innovatiebeurs | FGw | FGw educational innovation project blended learning | Yearly | 24 December 2025 | ||
| Education Research Fellows | TLC | Research into your own teaching practice (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) | September 2025 | |||
| Impact Call Awards | UvA | Educational project that creates social impact | € 25.000 | 5 September 2025 | 13 October 2025 | |
| Grassroots | TLC | Innovating education with ICT projects | €2.000 | Yearly | 1 December 2025 | 30 January 2026 |
| Grassroots+ | TLC/ICTS | Broader application of innovative ICT projects | €9.000 | Yearly | 1 December 2025 | 30 January 2026 |
| TLC Didactic Innovation Grant | TLC | Assessment Reimagined | Yearly | 1 December 2025 | 30 January 2026 |
External grants
| Fund | Organiser | Theme | Budget | Duration | Call expected | Deadline | |||
| NKO Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | NKO | Improving teaching practice | Up to €25.000 | ||||||
| NKO Comenius Teaching Fellows | NKO | Developing as an education professional | Up to €50.000 | 18 months | September | ||||
| NKO Comenius Senior Fellows | NKO | Developing as an education professional | Up to €100.000 | 30 months | September | ||||
| NKO Comenius Leadership Fellows | NKO | Developing as an education professional | Up to €500.000 | 42 months | September | ||||
| NKO Hoger onderwijs voor de toekomst | NKO | Developing teaching skills | Every 3 years | ||||||
| NKO edVenturous Questions | NKO | Supporting groundbreaking research | |||||||
| NKO Kennis voor onderwijs van de toekomst – Groot | NKO | Knowledge development and strengthening of teaching talent | Minimum €600,000 and maximum €900,000 | ||||||
| NKO Kennis voor onderwijs van de toekomst – Middel | NKO | Knowledge development and strengthening of teaching talent | Minimum €300.000 en maximum €600.000 | ||||||
| NKO Kennis voor onderwijs van de toekomst – Klein | NKO | Knowledge development and strengthening of teaching talent | Minimum €50.000 en maximum €315.000 | ||||||
| Organisatievormen, visie en inrichting van onderwijs in maatschappelijke context | NKO | Knowledge development: visions on and organisation of education | April | 3 April 2025 | |||||
| The KNAW Van der Gaag Grant | KNAW | Supporting promising research into human behaviour | Every 2 years | September 2025 | |||||
| Open Mind | NWO | Support research ideas that offer sustainable solutions | Up to €500.000 | 11 March 2025 | |||||
| NKO The Dutch Education Award | NKO | Supporting educational teams with innovative projects | Up to €1.200.000 | 28 october 2025 | |||||
| NKO Scaling-up Grant | NKO | Support for implementing and disseminating previously completed innovation projects | Up to €100.000 | ||||||
| NKO Significant questions in Vocational and Higher Education | NKO | Stimulate collaboration between researchers and practitioners | |||||||
| NKO insight into educational innovation | NKO | Thematic research into existing innovations in education | Up to €200.000 | Between 2-3 years |
In summary, here you will find an overview of NKO calls and tenders currently in preparation.
Questions or feedback?
If there is anything we could add or change, please send us a message: communicatie-tlc@uva.nl