Awards & scholarships
UMC Utrecht offers awards and scholarships for students in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences and Clinical Health Sciences.
Fill in the application form 2024-2025
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The annual presentation of the student awards and scholarships will take place in one of the College Halls at the end of June 2025, the exact date and location to follow.
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WKZ-Award
The WKZ-Award is an award for a thesis, research paper or publication published last year. The subject should be about disease, treatment or background about diseases happening at an adolescent age. The award, which comes with a cash prize of 500 euros, is handed out yearly in June to a Medicine, Biomedical Sciences (Bachelor's or Master's) or Clinical Health Sciences student.
Hand in your application with a short letter written by your research supervisor. Make sure that your application is sent before May 1st to the Awards & Scholarships contact of the Education Center UMC Utrecht (See application form). The winners gets picked by an expert jury.
Prize: 500 euros.
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Talma Eykman award
The Talma Eykman award is for a student of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences or Clinical Health Sciences who has written an excellent research report or literature review thesis.
All master students and the bachelor students who follow an honours program may apply but the research report or literature review thesis must have been graded at least 8. Applications should be accompanied by a summary of maximum 2 A4 pages written for laymen. Entries will be judged by the Talma Eykman jury.
Prize is 1000 euros.
Application deadline: 1 May 2025.
Nijbakker-Morra Foundation: Incentive Prize
The Nijbakker-Morra Foundation provides an annual incentive prize for students Medicine and students of Biomedical Sciences who, during their research training, demonstrate exceptional talent for and commitment to fundamental or applied cancer research.
The prize enables students to attend a scientific conference abroad in the field of cancer research.
More information on www.nijbakker-morra.nl
Prize is a 1500 euro travel scholarship.
The application deadline will follow, keep an eye on this page for updates.
Van Wijck-Stam-Caspers (WSC) Fund
The foundation "van Wijck-Stam-Caspers" provides yearly 10000 Euro to assist students from Medicine and Biomedcal Sciences of the Utrecht University to perform cardiovascular research abroad as part of their study.
The applications can be submitted twice a year (deadlines March 1 and October 1). A jury will select in principle one student application from Medicine and one from Biomedical Sciences in each round. in addition, PhD students may request support (maximum 1000 E) for a visit to a foreign laboratory in order to exchange data or methodologies.
Prizes are two cash prizes of 2500 euro and two grants of 1000 euro for PhD students.
Frits de Waard Penning
The Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care is proud to announce the ‘Frits de Waard Penning’. This award is intended for students who have conducted original and excellent epidemiological research in medicine or biomedical sciences. Two awards are available yearly, one for a medical student and one for an epidemiology master’s student. A jury will select the best entries.
The aim of the award is to encourage promising young researchers who are at the start of their career by acknowledging their achievements.
Prize: besides the Frits de Waard Penning, the winners will receive an incentive of 500 euro
The application deadline: 1 May 2025.
Suzanne Hovinga Award
This award is for a bachelor thesis of exceptional quality. Entries will be judged by an independent jury on thoroughness of research, a demonstrated understanding of the material, logic of presentation, design, readability, creativity and inventiveness. Only theses awarded a mark of over 8 will be eligible for submission for the award.
More information: www.suzannehovingastichting.nl.
Prize is an award of 500 euro for one bachelor Biomedical Sciences student.
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Policy application awards and scholarships uitklapper, klik om te openen
An application may be submitted after graduation in cases where grading of the thesis/report took place after the application deadline.
This should also be the first possible moment at which the candidate can be reasonably expected to submit his/her application.
Contact uitklapper, klik om te openen
Linda Hofstra
OZ-communicatie@umcutrecht.nl