Utrecht Education Incentive Fund
How to let students experiment a lot early on in their degree programmes? How to improve their language capabilities? And how to ensure lecturers learning as much from each other as possible? These are some of the many questions to which the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund initiates the answers.
The Utrecht Education Incentive Fund was founded in 2013 to improve the professionalisation of lecturers and to encourage education innovations. Lecturers at Utrecht University nominate projects in the fields of (digital) didactics & testing, activated learning, matching & selection, honours programmes and the Master's graduate studies. Accepted projects are carried out by the lecturers themselves.
Two million euros
Each year, the Executive Board awards two million euros to promising projects. Three types of projects are financed from the fund: Faculty USO-, inter-faculty USO educational innovation and USO consolidation projects.
Faculty USO projects are small-scale. Each faculty has its own procedures. Reach out to your faculty contact if you want to know more about the possibilities in your faculty.
With the inter-faculty USO educational innovation innovative educational projects in which at least two faculties participate are realised. These are larger projects with a maximum duration of 3 years and a budget between 85,000 and 250,000 euro.
USO consolidation makes it possible to investigate whether project (results) of (nearly) completed educational innovations can be embedded in the organisation in a sustainable manner, or can be marketed. The end result of a consolidation project is a business case that can be used to decide about the sustainable continuation of the project results.
Calls for proposals
Find more information about the 2023 round of the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund in the call for proposals. This contains all deadlines, the timeline and further information about the procedure.
- Faculty USO projects: get in touch with your faculty contact person
- Interfaculty USO Educational Innovation: Read the call for proposals
- USO Consolidation: Read the call for proposals
Assessment committee
The assessment committee consists of the following members: Marian Jongmans (chmn, FSW), Cornélie Westermann (DGK), Vincent Crone (GW), Emma Versteegh (Bèta), Agnes Andeweg (UCU), Margien Bootsma (Geo), Marieke van der Schaaf (GNK), Bald de Vries (REBO), student member, Frans Prins (onderwijskundig adviseur), Willemijn Schot (onderwijskundig adviseur), Hjalmar Eijkelenkamp (process supervision) and Jasper van Winden (secretary).
In the Teaching and Learning Collection, you can find the project descriptions and (preliminary) results of running and finished USO-projects.