Funding and sponsors
Funding
Research projects in the Experimental Rock Deformation Group (HPT Lab) at Utrecht are funded by a number of agencies, organisations and companies.
The following provide major research funding:
- NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
- NWO/ALW (Earth and Life Sciences Division)
- NWO/SRON (Space Sciences Division)
- ISES (Netherlands Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Sciences)
- CATO-2 (Dutch National Research Programme on Carbon Capture and Storage)
- Shell International Exploration and Production
- TNO Built Environment and Geosciences
- European Commission Framework Programmes
Sponsors

Ningbo Newanton Rubber & Plastics Products Co., Ltd, Ningbo, China
Newanton sponsors research on geological storage of CO2 at the HPT Lab by developing and supplying CO2 – resistant rubber sealing products and sample jacketing materials without charge.