Criteria, application and procedure

Criteria:

  1. You have gained a Master’s, PDEng or PhD degree at Eindhoven University of Technology.
  2. Preference will be given to women whose parents did not have an academic education
  3. The application relates to your personal development. This involves:
    •  a career breakthrough and/or a cross-disciplinary step or career change.
      Or
    • a strongly international orientation due to collaboration with one or more prominent institutes in other countries.
  4. Preference will be given to women who have already built up a career; however women who are at the start of their career may also apply for the grant if it contributes strongly to their personal development.
  5. The plan can be carried out in practice
  6. The plan will be carried out at a recognized educational or research institute or company in the Netherlands or other country.
  7. The application must clearly show why the grant is essential to achieve the desired career change
  8. The application must show how the candidate will continue to build on her previous education.

It is permitted, and may even support the candidacy, for an application to also receive additional funding from other funds. It is therefore desirable and advisable to explicitly name additional applications in the application.

Notification of intention to apply

As we prepare for the submission process, we kindly request that you notify us via email of your intention to submit an application. Your message will help us in coordinating our efforts effectively and ensuring that all necessary preparations are made in a timely manner.

Application:

An action plan must be included with the nomination, including:

• A brief description of the career to date, including CV
• A brief description of the intended career step or turn (see criterion 3) and its importance for the candidate's personal development
• A brief explanation of how the grant will be used to achieve the intended step or turn, supported by a letter of recommendation/letter of admission from a professor or institute where the program will be taken
• A description of any applications from other funds for this plan
• A budget and a timeline

NB: the overall plan of approach is limited in scope (max. three A4 pages excluding CV and appendices).

 

Procedure

All applications are assessed by a jury. It is not possible to correspond about the outcome. The grant will be awarded at the presentation of the Academic Awards at TU/e on Friday, 27 September, 2024. If you are invited to present your plan, we expect you to be present in person. After the grant has been awarded by the jury, the winner can start executing her plan.

The University Fund Eindhoven will contact the winner for the bank details. Within 3 months after the grant has been awarded, the winner will receive an advance of no more than € 4,500. After the plan has been realized, the winner must submit a final result and financial statement. After the final result has been positively assessed, the remainder of the grant will be paid. The assessment takes place within a period of 3 months after receipt of the final invoice. The end result must be established by means of a diploma or certificate. You have 4 years to realize your plan. Winners are invited to participate in the Marina van Damme Network.

The University Fund Eindhoven will contact the runner up for the bank details. Subsequently, the amount of the grant of € 2,500 will be paid out within 3 months after the grant has been awarded.

By submitting your application you agree that the University Fund Eindhoven may use your data for communication purposes in relation to the Marina van Damme grant (including mentioning on the website of TU Eindhoven and the University Fund Eindhoven, social media channels and other communication channels of the TU Eindhoven and the Marina van Damme Network).

Criteria

De jury hanteert de volgende beoordelingscriteria:

  1. Kandidaten dienen een masterdiploma, PDENg of een PhD te hebben behaald bij de TU Eindhoven
  2. De voorkeur gaat uit naar vrouwen van wie de ouders geen academische opleiding gevolgd hebben
  3. De aanvraag heeft betekenis voor de persoonlijke ontwikkeling van de kandidate (het moet gaan om een grensverleggende en/of discipline-overschrijdende stap of wending in de loopbaan, of om een sterk internationale oriëntatie die gerealiseerd wordt door samen te werken met een of meer prominente buitenlandse instellingen)
  4. De voorkeur gaat uit naar vrouwen die reeds een loopbaan hebben opgebouwd, maar ook vrouwen aan het begin van hun carrière kunnen een beroep doen op de beurs wanneer hun aanvraag in sterke mate aan het derde criterium voldoet
  5. De aanvraag is uitvoerbaar
  6. De aanvraag wordt gerealiseerd bij een erkend onderwijs- of onderzoeksinstituut of bedrijf, in binnen- of buitenland
  7. Uit de aanvraag moet duidelijk blijken waarom de beurs essentieel is voor realisatie van de loopbaan-wending
  8. Uit de aanvraag moet blijken op welke wijze de kandidate voortbouwt op haar eerder genoten opleiding.

Het is toegestaan, en het kan de kandidaatstelling zelfs ondersteunen, dat een aanvraag ook aanvullende financiering krijgt uit andere fondsen. Het is daarom gewenst en raadzaam aanvullende aanvragen expliciet te benoemen in de aanvraag.