Award of 33 Kiem grants for new interdisciplinary initiatives
No fewer than 55 applications were submitted for a Kiem seed grant, an initiative for developing new interdisciplinary, interfaculty research partnerships and encounters. The draw took place on Monday for the allocation of 22 seed grants. The Executive Board was so impressed with the number of applications that they made extra funding available and ultimately 33 projects received funding.
In recent months, researchers at Leiden University have been encouraged to submit projects that promote interdisciplinary research collaborations. At least two researchers have to be involved in each application, and each of them must be attached to a different faculty. And because we want to create opportunities for talented young people to gain experience, at least one early-stage researcher has to be part of each project. Caroline de Ruijter (SAZ) explained earlier about the background to the Kiem grants: ‘This call is part of the bigger ambition to promote interdisciplinary research at the university. Ultimately, there will be three steps: Kiem, Groei and Bloei (Seed, Growth and Expansion). The Kiem grant is intended as seed funding for smaller cross-faculty projects involving early-stage researchers. A maximum of 10,000 euros is available for each proposal.’
The successful Kiem projects
There were more applications than the available number of grants so a draw took place on Monday 10 July among those projects that met the eligibility conditions. The result is that 33 teams can now get started with their project.
Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl: ‘I’m very happy with the result of the KIEM call, especially with the diversity of proposals and some unexpected partnerships. This is another step towards more interdisciplinary research within the university. I wish the teams every success and a lot of fun as they get started with their projects, and I look forward to hearing the results.’
The following KIEM teams will receive a seed grant of a maximum of €10,000:
| Lead applicant | Title of research project | Collaborating faculties |
|
Wiep Klaas Smits |
Mining the genome of bacteria cultured from the stool of healthy humans |
LUMC/FWN |
|
Marta Elena Artola Pérez de Azanza |
Screening Assay for Identifying Ligands Of RNA pseudoknots as new antibacterial and antiviral discovery platform |
FWN/LUMC |
|
Marieke Liem |
Violence as a Population Health Problem |
FGGA/FSW/LUMC |
|
Kartica van der Zon |
Oprichting kenniscentrum en ontwikkelplan m.b.t. interdisciplinaire samenwerking tussen Jeugdrecht & Pedagogische Wetenschappen |
FdR/FSW |
|
Olga Gadyatskaya |
Ethics@ULEI: Organization of international seminar on ethics in teaching and research in cyber security and artificial intelligence |
FWN/FdR/FGGA |
|
Dario Fazzi |
Beyond Risk? Understanding the Threats of the Anthropocene |
FGW/FWN/FdR/FGGA |
|
Bas Nijboer |
Hoe maken we van interdisciplinaire samenwerking een succes |
FGGA/FSW/FdA/FWN |
|
Julia Henrich |
Skills for interdisciplinarity and mental health in a complex work environment |
LUMC/FSW/FdR/ICLON |
|
Amanda Henry |
Spark: Fire and Human Evolution |
FdA/FSW/LUMC |
|
Liesbeth van Vliet |
Exploring Personal Connection in Serious Illness Communication |
FSW/LUMC |
|
Aris Politopoulos |
Crafting Heritage Experiences: Fostering collective engagement with the past through Minecraft |
FdA/FGW |
|
Jiska Aardoom |
Duurzame zorg: Hoe wordt dit ervaren door de patiënt? |
LUMC/FSW |
|
Daniela Vicherat Mattar |
BOCA Building Other forms of Communicating the Academy |
FGGA/FGW/IIAS |
|
Akrati Saxena |
The Impact of Affirmative Actions on International Academic Collaboration |
FWN/FSW |
|
Rebecca Schaefer |
Mood and music in the brain: Influences of mental health on behavioral and neural correlates of music-based motor learning |
FSW/LUMC |
|
Carsten Stahn |
Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices |
FGW/FdA |
|
Roos van Oosten |
Academic conferences in the 21st century: practicing what we preach |
FdA/FGGA/FdR |
|
John Burton Kegel |
The re-enchantment of infrastructure in Africa: Comparing Colonial and Contemporary Coastal Corridors |
IIAS/FSW/FGW |
|
Willem Jespers |
Investigating the role of the H1N1 proteome as potential triggers of the auto-immune response leading to narcolepsy type 1 |
FWN/LUMC |
|
Ksenia Fedorova |
Exploring the Gap between Embodied Cognition and Generative AI |
FGW/FWN |
|
Samira Rezaei |
Deep learning in scientific imaging: the intersection of astrophysics and medicine |
FWN/LUMC |
|
Mariska Kret |
“Bridging Animal Affective Science and Emotion Psychology using Affective Computing” – a Leiden University pre-conference workshop at the International Society for Research on Emotion (SRE) in July 2024 |
FSW/FWN |
|
Francesco Ragazzi |
ReCNTR Lab: Multimodal Research Work-in-Progress Series |
FSW/FGW/FWN |
|
Laura van der Velde |
Exploring facilitators and barriers for reducing stigma related to food aid through a camera lens: a participatory photovoice study among people experiencing food poverty |
LUMC/FSW |
|
Susana Valdez |
Health and Migration: Understanding the use of AI and machine translation in doctor-patient communication |
FGW/LUMC |
|
Sarah L. Carthy |
Hurting yourself to hurt others: Examining the role of counterfinality in antisocial punishment |
FGGA/FSW |
|
D.K. de Vries |
Elaborating organ damage and kidney transplantation outcomes |
LUMC/FWN |
|
Olga Bogolyubova |
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Safety and Danger in the Digital World |
FGGA/FWN/FdR/FSW |
|
Jorrit Smit |
Excavating Fossilized Data. A cross-cut analysis of the ties between university research and fossil industries |
FSW/FWN/FGGA |
|
Tim de Coster |
Cardiac Chaos Control study group |
LUMC/FWN |
|
Lydie Cabane |
Protecting against disasters: interdisciplinary perspectives on the notion of protection |
FGGA/FSW/FdR |
|
Rosanne Govaarts |
The developing brain in neuromuscular diseases |
LUMC/FSW |
|
Hendrik Vrijburg |
Eliciting willingness to pay for domestic and international climate change policies |
FdR/FGGA/FSW |
About the KIEM grants
Whether it is climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, there are some areas where science flourishes even more when different disciplines join forces. With the new small-scale Kiem grants, Leiden researchers can now explore or start collaborative projects with colleagues from other faculties. With the KIEM call, Leiden University has made 33 seed grants available, each worth a maximum of €10,000.