Criteria & Registration

Criteria

• You obtained a Master’s degree or a PhD at TU Delft;
• The application must help with your personal development. The grant should help you to take a pioneering or cross-disciplinary step in your career, or a strong international focus achieved by a collaboration with a prominent foreign institute;
• The preference is for women who have already built up a career, yet women at the beginning of their career may also apply for the grant if their application satisfies the second criterion to a high degree
• Your application must be feasible;
• The application will be implemented at an accredited educational or research institution or company, at home or abroad;
• You will be awarded a diploma, certificate or reference;
• You will have an advantage if you find a position where you serve as an example to others;
• The preference is for women whose parents did not benefit from an academic study programme;
• This grant is not intended for (co-) financing a PhD trajectory. Applications aiming to follow a degree programme at the university where also the Master's degree or PhD has been completed, will not be honoured. 

Application procedure

Your application you must include the following documents:

1. Curriculum Vitae (incl. portrait picture)
2. Plan of Action
3. Budget & Timeline

Your plan of action, should include:

• A brief description of your career to date.
• A brief description of the intended step or new direction in your career and its importance for your personal development.
• A brief explanation of how the grant will be used to achieve the intended step or new direction, supported by a letter of recommendation/admission letter from a professor or institute where the candidate will follow the study programme.
• A description of any applications related to other funds for this plan.

NB: your plan of action may not exceed a total of three A4 sheets, excluding CV and appendices.