To advance interdisciplinary research on the digital society, the Network Institute employs several funding instruments.

• Our hallmark funding scheme is the Network Institute Academy Assistant (NIAA) program, which each year funds 10-15 positions for excellent student assistants to work with staff in small interdisciplinary research groups on highly focused projects.
• Every two years, we hand out three Industry Research Vouchers in a competitive round, allowing NI researchers to work together with a company on a valorization project for a period of one (full) month.
• In addition, there is an open program to sponsor (with €1000) events and initiatives by NI members which help us to pursue our agenda of advancing interdisciplinary research on the digital society. For more information, e-mail Ivano Malavolta: i.malavolta@vu.nl.
• We also actively endorse Open Access Publishing by offering to reimburse €500 in fees for your open access-published paper (first come, first served).
• We offer participants of our yearly IWDS workshop research vouchers of 1k, 1.5k, and 2.5k to further develop initial collaborative ideas.

More funding programs are on the way; we will keep you posted!