Project grant
Aim
This grant is intended to facilitate projects which stimulate the qualitative enhancement of the teaching of Dutch as a foreign language at universities. It is furthermore intended to broaden the impact made by Dutch departments as centres of knowledge with respect to language and linguistic culture, education and research. Finally, this grant is also intended to promote the following forms of cooperation:
- inter-university cooperation on a regional, national and where appropriate international level;
- inter-disciplinary cooperation within the university, at a regional level;
- inter-university cooperation between Dutch and Flemish universities.
Criteria
Within the framework of this scheme, projects will be considered that make a structural contribution towards enhancing the standard of education and the dissemination of Dutch language and culture, both within the department and at a regional or international level.
The grants are a one-off payment and intended for the implementation of a specific one-year or multi-year plan. At http://taalunieversum.org/taalunie/projectsubsidie_docentschappen/ examples can be found of projects that were given grants in recent years.
Applicants
The project is applied for by a department of Dutch or by an individual fulfilling the accreditation criteria listed under 1.2. The department of Dutch may be designated as a central point or the person applying has been appointed by a department of Dutch that has been designated as a central point. A department of Dutch will be regarded as a central point when:
Infrastructure
- the department of Dutch studies is organisationally embedded in an institution for higher education;
- the department has a research function, as is evident from publications in, among others, technical journals;
- the department fulfils a promotional role for departments elsewhere in the region.
Staff
- the staff mainly consists of people with doctorates;
- the composition of the staff is such that it is possible to teach various aspects of Dutch studies , including the cultural history of the Netherlands and Suriname;
- the staff consists mainly of lecturers from the country in question.
Procedure
The application form (Word document) can be downloaded here. The form should be submitted preferably electronically - no later than 1 October prior to the calendar year to which the grant applies. Subsequently:
an advisory committee will review the project applications and advise the General Secretary on the projects before the end of December;
applicants will be notified before the end of February of the year following the date on which the application is submitted as to whether the project has been approved for grant allocation.
If a project grant is awarded, 75% of the requested grant can be transferred as an advance. The remaining 25% will be paid upon submission of the results and the final report.
Financial accountability and substantive reporting
At the end of the period for which the agreements were made, a financial statement of the project grant must be received by the Language Union. Not all financial records need to be included with this account. However, these documents should be stored for a period of five years by the department of Dutch to enable the Language Union to check the financial statement on a sample basis.
In addition to this financial account, a substantive report is required. Additional arrangements may also be made with regard to interim reports, The set-up, progress and results of the project will, when possible, be presented at regional seminars and colloquiums for lecturers.
An independent external evaluator will be appointed for projects which have been awarded a grant of 50,000 or more. This evaluator will determine whether the presented project results and objectives, on the basis of which the grant has been awarded, have actually been achieved. If the final result is not satisfactory, a (partial) repayment of the grant may be required.
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