Maastricht Young Academy Awards first Interdisciplinary Grant

It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that we announce that the recipients of the inaugural Maastricht Young Academy Interdisciplinary Grant will be Amir Ebrahimi Fard (Faculty of Science and Engineering) and Giulia Piccillo (School of Business and Economics) with their proposal ‘The impact of repeated exposure to rumors on the belief system’.

MYA congratulates Amir and Giulia along with all the candidates who also submitted wonderful proposals.

What is the MYA Interdisciplinary Grant?

We believe that to better understand the complex problems of today and tomorrow, we need perspectives and findings from different disciplines working together. Meaningful scientific and methodological innovation requires making the boundaries between disciplines more porous and looking at the numerous societal problems that we face more holistically. Therefore, the Maastricht Young Academy initiated the MYA Interdisciplinary Grant to stimulate this collaboration with a grant of €15,000. In this round, 15 proposals were reviewed, and a short- list of 3 teams were invited to an interview.

The MYA expects to open another call later in 2022.