Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School

Last chance to sign up: #AmSIA2025  Do you have an #innovativeidea for applying your #research into #society? Sign up for the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2025 (AmSIA) for a chance to win € 10,000! (Deadline: 9 February 2025, brief application procedure). AmSIA is open to #ideas from #allresearchdisciplines. Follow the link below to sign up. 

Have you recently finished your PhD (up to 7 years) and are you affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)? You might be elegible to submit a proposal for the VU-UT 2025 call. This initiative aims to foster #collaborations between the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) and the University of Twente. Whether you want to explore a collaborative idea (€10.000) or work together on a research project, develop a product, or build a consortium (€35.000), this is a great #opportunity to take your #research to the next level. Deadline: February 17th. Check the link below for more information (in Dutch).

Sign up to participate to a #focusgroup to improve the #websites for #PhDs at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam! Date/time: January 23, 14h-16h. Contact Fernie Maas: f.g.t.maas@vu.nl Help to improve https://lnkd.in/e6Q4hRvg and https://lnkd.in/eehYbPzV. Next to streamlining information and deleting redundant webpages, the goals is to make information findable and accessible. We’re looking for 5 PhD candidates who’d like to participate to a focus group!

Send in nominations for the KHMW #Dissertation #Prize #Interdisciplinarity 2025 until 15 January, which rewards research with a special interdisciplinary character that bridges the boundaries between the classical humanities/beta/gamma science fields (in Dutch).

The ticket sale for the Amsterdam Kinder #Symposium 2025 has begun! On Friday January 31st 2025, the annual symposium will take place at the DeLaMar Theater in Amsterdam. This year’s theme is "#Pediatrics in Times of Crisis." The first keynote speakers have already been announced: Aris Prins, pharmacist and president of the “Koninklijke Nederlandse Maatschappij ter bevordering van Pharmacie” (KNMP) and Professor Patricia Bruijning, pediatric epidemiologist and professor of vaccination and infectious disease control epidemiology. Get your tickets now as tickets are limited! Plenary program will be presented in Dutch, SLAM sessions are in English. 

This month's #blog is written by your fellow #PhD candidate Trang Nguyen! You may recognize her struggles with #productivity and you will definitely be surprised by her perspective on it!

You have a smart, innovative idea that could greatly benefit #society — wonderful! However, transforming such an idea into a tangible product or service is often a challenging journey. The Amsterdam #Science & #Innovation #Award (#AmSIA) is here to help. Submit your idea by 9 February 2025 to take part. To give your registration an extra boost, join the workshop on 23 January 2025.

#Vote for this year’s Amsterdam UMC #Societal #Impact #Award! This award recognizes an Amsterdam UMC #researcher or team with relevant societal impact in the #academic year 2023-2024. 

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Library and the #OpenScience program are thrilled to invite you to attend the Grand Final of the first VU ‘Three Minute #Thesis’ (3MT®) #Competition on Dec 12th! This exciting event challenges VU #PhD candidates to deliver an engaging and accessible three-minute #presentation about their PhD research to a non-specialist audience.