News

Sarah van Walsum rewarded with VICI-grant

NWO rewards van Walsum with a prestigious grant for her research study “Migration law as a family matter”

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has rewarded dr. Sarah van Walsum with a VICI-grant. Van Walsum has been rewarded the prestigious grant for her research study 'Migration Law as a family matter'.
The VICI-grant gives way to the assembling of a new research line and personal research group.

NWO rewards VICI-grants to excellent researchers who belong to the top 10 to 20% of their population. This year six VICI-grants have been rewarded in total.

Migration Law as a Family Matter
Up until 1985 a non-Dutch woman could live with her Dutch husband in the Netherlands without being restrained by any rules of the government. These days the laws surrounding family migration have changed. Van Walsum has researched the interaction between family and direct family in migration law in the Netherlands, within the EU and on an international level.

VICI-grant and innovational impulse
The VICI-grant is intended for excellent senior researchers that have proven to successfully develop a personal, innovational research line and who function as a coach for young researchers. The rewarded grant amounts to a maximum of €1,500,000.- and offers researchers a chance to build up their personal research group.

The VICI-grant is part of a renewal impulse programme of the NWO, and strives to give innovative studies an extra impulse. The programme is of a personal nature and offers gifted, creative researchers a chance to conduct research of their choice and to stimulate the flow within scientific research institutes.