Project procedures

·  Procedures for setting up new projects

The fund can invite certain researchers or research institutes to draw up proposals and to submit them for financing. Researchers can also contact the fund and submit a proposal themselves. In both cases a phase of broad orientation will take place before an elaborated proposal can be drawn up and submitted. During the orientation phase it is explored whether the idea is viable enough to be turned into a project, and whether there are possibilities for financing, perhaps together with another – larger - fund.


·  Assessment

After they have been submitted, proposals are presented to two experts in the field in question. These experts assess the scientific value of the proposal if it is a research proposal, and the possible effects if it is a project with a more practical purpose. The experts give their opinion anonymously. They report to the Fund with a copy of their anonymous report to the party submitting the proposal. Their opinion may lie anywhere between immediate acceptance and rejection, and may contain suggestions for improving the proposal. The experts are recruited during the deliberations which the Foundation organizes in relation to its scientific plan. With their permission, their names will be listed in the Foundation’s Group of Advisors.


·  Decisions

After the assessment by two experts, and perhaps after improvements by the party submitting the proposal, the Board of the Foundation decides whether funding can be provided for the proposal. It takes this decision, on the one hand, on the basis of the assessment and on the other hand, on the basis of the social priorities in the eyes of the Foundation. The objective of the Fund for Scientific Research of Sexuality is to make possible scientific research. The primary aim is the sexual-emotional health of children and young people, and the development processes in children and young people leading up to this.