Announcement of call for small proposals: Let's build resilience together!
We are launching a call for small-scale projects, with funding of up to €10,000 per proposal. These projects should align with our mission to foster resilience in a wide variety of socio-technical-environmental systems, such as urban, food, water, energy, transport, and supply chain systems.
Resilience is not just about enduring challenges, it is about adapting, innovating, and thriving in the face of global disruptions, from supply chain crises to climate-induced stresses.
We are committed to making the complex social-technical-environmental systems in societies more resilient. 4TU.Resilience Engineering is a community of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who collaboratively develop, apply, and disseminate knowledge, methods, and tools.
Join us in reaching our goals
Build and Strengthen Our Transdisciplinary Community
Our goal is to grow our community in terms of size, connectedness, and influence. We will create diverse opportunities for a wide range of individuals – including MSc students, EngD and PhD candidates, early-career and senior researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from various disciplines and geographical backgrounds – to connect, learn from one another, and find inspiration.
Advance scientific knowledge
Our goal is to facilitate scientific progress alongside societal innovation. Through interaction and dialogue with societal stakeholders, we will develop and test methodological toolkits and knowledge to enhance resilience thinking in design and engineering, measure resilience over time and space, and improve resilience coordination and governance.
Innovate practice
Our goal is to support stakeholders who seek to improve security by making complex systems more resilient. Our focus is on urban, food, water, energy, transport and supply chain systems. We educate students and provide practical and strategic expertise and support stakeholders, for example, in identifying opportunities and trade-offs for improving resilience.
This is an announcement of the launch of our Call for Small Proposals, the official launch will take place Tuesday 31 March, 2026!
Key dates
Submission opens: 31 March 2026. Keep an eye on our website, we will provide you with a form.
Rolling reviews: Submit anytime - we will try and respond within three weeks.
Project completion: All invoices must be submitted by 1 December 2026. All output must be made available by 15 December 2026 latest.