Research funding
In 2024, our fund-raising capacity for research was € 185 million (€ 133 million in 2023). This means that we more than achieved our target of € 112 million.
Support for researchers from national support programs (NPO)
During the Coronavirus pandemic there was less capacity/opportunity for scientific research that was not related to COVID-19. Due to this a lot of scientific research had been delayed since March 2020. In 2021 and 2022, UMC Utrecht received € 8.5 million in total from the National Program for Education (NPO), the national support program for education and recovery and prospects for researchers.
With this support, from 2021 up until 2023, UMC Utrecht covered (a part of) the salary costs of 458 PhD students and post-docs (approximately 40% of UMC Utrecht researchers). This included € 700,000 in 2021, € 2.906 million in 2022, and € 2.855 million in 2023. In 2024, we spent the remaining funds (€ 1.412 million) according to plan.
Starter and incentive grants for researchers
From the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and via Utrecht University, UMC Utrecht has since 2023 received two new types of subsidies for researchers, referred to as starter and incentive grants. Both these grants can be spent freely and are intended to give researchers the necessary tranquility and scope to develop their own line of research. In 2024, we awarded a total of 35 starter grants worth € 120,000 in two installments.
Matching Horizon Europe spending
We have made agreements for the spending of resources from the Matching Horizon Europe program. 60% of the funding received is immediately available as financial matching for ongoing research. We deployed approximately 20% to support large applications and the start-up of a training program for researchers and supporting staff. The rest was set aside for supporting future research.
