Eligibility requirements
The conditions for the contribution are as follows:
- the PhD candidate is registered with the institute (in Hora Finita for VUmc PhD-students), receives mails and newsletters, either from the beginning of the project, or as of the start of the institute;
- the PhD candidate participated in the annual AR&D retreat with at least an abstract and attended the AR&D symposium minimally once during her/his PhD period;
- all the publications of the PhD thesis appearing after 1-1-2020 name the Amsterdam Reproduction & Development research institute as affiliation;
- the PhD candidate informs the institute of the title, time, date and place of the thesis defense as soon as a date has been set, including the names of the (co)promotors;
- the application has to be send in and approved before the thesis has been printed, since the text below and the AR&D visual has to be printed in the thesis.
- the declaration of the actual costs must be done within 3 months after the printing costs are made.
Application
The PhD candidate should send the application form to ARandD@amsterdamumc.nl.
Application form:
Incomplete applications and declarations submitted later than 3 months after the printing costs are made will not be taken into consideration.
Approval
If your application is approved the following text is printed in the thesis:
“Financial support for printing of this thesis was kindly provided and supported by the Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D) research institute”.
Together with the AR&D visual, that can be downloaded here:
For publication on the AR&D website and in the AR&D newsletter the PhD candidate sends the institute:
- a picture (JPG) of the cover of the thesis
- a digital copy (PDF) or a link to the open source publication of the thesis
- a short English summary of the thesis (75 words) in layman’s terms
Declaration of the actual costs must be done within 3 months after the printing costs are made. Proof of payment of the printing costs and the AR&D letter stating your application has been approved have to be included in the declaration. You will receive the declaration instructions once your application has been approved.