Application and other details

If you want to apply for the SBE Research Assistant Grant, the following details are good to know:

• the grants are offered to a maximum of twenty second-year research master’s students and are divided over SBE’s six fields of research;
• each second-year research master’s student will be entitled once to receive financing up to a period of one year (with a minimum of six months) in accordance to the VSNU salary tables of at the most a fourth-year student;
• you must be officially registered as a second-year research master’s student;
• your employment as a Research Assistant should not coincide with educational activities (either as a possible teacher or as a research master’s student);
• your appointment as a research assistant is for:
  • EU-residents: at most sixteen hours a week (0,4 fte) over a period of twelve months;
  • non-EU residents: at most ten hours a week (0,25 fte) over a period of twelve months;
  • please note that if you are not Dutch, you may need a work permit to hold a part-time job in the Netherlands. Whether you need a permit depends on your nationality. You can find more information here.
• if you are a non-EU student, you cannot use the financial means earned with your appointment as a Research Assistant, for a tuition fee waiver;
• once appointed, you can start in your Research Assistant position as from the start of the second year of your research master’s programme;
• you are expected to take a proactive approach in finding a METEOR fellow that is willing to provide you with the necessary research support, this in close consultation with the research master’s programme director;
• a contract will be made up and signed mutually, stipulating the exact research contribution you are expected to deliver and the necessary (research) support you may expect from the METEOR fellow.