Our impact

Since its start in September 2019, Fundament has provided >50 support trajectories for individual researchers or consortia. We supported proposal development for various European grant schemes, including Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Actions (RIA), ERCs and Marie S. Curie Doctoral Networks. In addition, we have vast experience in national funding, such as Dutch Research Council NWO schemes NWA-ORC, KIC, Perspectief, Gravitation, Summit and the Talent Programme. We have worked with researchers from a wide variety of scientific fields and disciplines, and supported them in developing proposals related to AI, digital twins, work force, energy transition, cancer, mental health, immunology, and many, many more.

We are very proud that with our support, success rates of proposals increase 3 to 4-fold compared to overall rates. Notably, our success rate for European RIA proposals is >50%. See some examples of funded projects Fundament has contributed to.

Our team

Fundament provides research funding and grant support. We are two highly experienced grants advisors who always work according to the 4-eyes principle, thereby optimizing our advice. We believe that researchers are best served with an honest reflection of their chances and a thorough discussion of the grant proposal framework. We offer tailored support throughout the process from research idea to submission of the proposal, and beyond. Read more about our approach >

About us

Linde van Ittersum

(+31) (0)6 40106872
linde@fundament.eu
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Linde (1985) is a strong conceptual thinker with excellent skills in translating research outcomes into a plan for real impact. With her background in Liberal Arts, she is one of the few research funding professionals with vast experience in drafting proposals in the domain of Social Sciences and Humanities. Having worked as a strategist for an FP7 project on EU health systems policy she is also very comfortable working in other domains. While she has a glorious track record in ERC and RIA funded project proposals, she has a thing for collaborative strategy development, both for institutes and individual researchers. Linde has worked as a research funding professional since 2010 and has since developed a strong sense of what European and Dutch funding organisations are looking for. Her insight into societal impact comes in handy for a wide array of funding programmes.

Neeltje Peters

(+31) (0)6 25273353
neeltje@fundament.eu
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Neeltje (1980) has excellent skills in managing complicated grant application processes. She has vast experience in spotting the raw potential of research ideas and loves working with researchers to translate these ideas into strong grant proposals. Neeltje has a PhD in neurobiology and worked as a programme officer at a Dutch national funding agency. In her >10 years career in research funding, she developed expertise in a range of national and European funding programmes. For example, she is highly specialized in Marie Curie Network grants, having analysed over 100 evaluation reports to truly understand what evaluators are looking for. She supported multiple successful proposals including RIA, CSA, NWO Gravitation and of course Marie Curie Networks. Coming from a scientific background, she can easily relate to researchers in many fields, such as medical and life sciences, beta sciences and psychology.

Clients we worked with

We serve an international clientele, reaching researchers from across Europe and beyond (USA, Canada, Australia, Israel and several African countries). We are accustomed to work with university-based researchers, research units of large enterprises, SME owners, etc. Furthermore, our network includes many patient- and professional organizations.