Open and online education offers opportunities for innovation and quality enhancement of education. The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, therefore, provides funding with the incentive scheme on open and online education giving room for projects in two pillars: Online education and Open learning materials.

Two pillars and a year theme

The incentive scheme gives room for projects in two pillars*:

1. Online education with the specific year theme of blended learning. Within this pillar, funding is granted for the redesign of existing education or the development of new online forms of education.
2. Open learning materials. Within this pillar, the scheme encourages teaching staff to jointly create and reuse high-quality collections of open learning materials across institutional boundaries. Through collaboration with colleagues in domain-specific communities, they can increase the quality of the learning materials and use their time more efficiently.

* Besides the general website on the incentive scheme all information of SURF is offered in Dutch.

You can submit your project proposal until 15 December 2021. Project proposals can apply for a budget of maximum of either €100.000 (pillar 1) or €175.000 (pillar 2), to be matched (in kind) with the same amount as requested by the faculty or unit.

SURF offers several workshops to get informed and well prepared before submitting a proposal. The library will regularly update the UM Open Education Website with all the relevant information (including the UM roadmap for submitting proposals).

Note: this will be the last call in this program!

Get inspired by previously granted UM project proposals

Maastricht University has been successful 5 years in a row in acquiring OCW/SURF grants. Take a look at the projects and get inspired or into contact with the project leaders!

• Blended learning environment for medical Dutch: the effect of peer-feedback and buddy support (project leader Maryam Asoodar, FHML in collaboration with Language Centre)
• INTER-ACTIE: Kolom-overstijgende, online peer feedback in interprofessioneel werkplekleren (project leader Anneke van Dijk – De Vries, FHML)
• Learning by Doing: An Interactive Online Space for Thesis Trajectory Management (project leader Lauren Wagner, FASoS)
• Online Laboratory calculus with automatic/instant Feedback (OLaF) (project leaders Herman Popeijus & Leo Köhler, FHML)
• PE(E)RFECT VAARDIG, submitted by the Open Universiteit, in collaboration with Natasja van der Meer (FL).
• Web of Law (project leaders Gijs van Dijck & Gwen Noteborn (FL).
• TOOL Anatomy Platform: submitted by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), together with other Dutch and Flemish anatomy departments.
• We-Mediate :  focusing on skills such as negotiation and mediation are important for lawyers (projectleader Bram Akkermans, FL).
• Leading to success – Smart choices & smart tools : the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance / UNU-MERIT created online modules  to  to help prospective students decide if the programme is a good study for them (projectleader Mindel van de Laar).

More info

Before the start of the academic year, we will offer more information on the UM-roadmap for submission. You can check the practical information and a checklist for proposals offered by SURF (in Dutch). You can also contact Gaby Lutgens or Marco Berndes (on behalf of your faculty funding advisor) for more information.