Dual PhD Centre
Partners
The Dual PhD Centre collaborates with knowledge-intensive businesses and organisations. The Dual PhD Centre and our partners design, recruit and mediate in PhD research. Education and research funds, and other funding opportunities are available for a number of different professional sectors.
Chamber of Commerce / VNO-NCW The Hague
The Dutch Chamber of Commerce is a fellow founder of the Dual PhD Centre, and has helped shape its dual character right from the beginning. The Dual PhD Centre connects the dynamic nature of professional practice with top-quality scholarship. The Centre actively contributes hrough academic research to advancing the Chamber of Commerce's agenda “Tempo in the Top Region”. This is partly done through dual PhD tracks, since innovation will further strengthen the region’s economic power.
For more information on the collaboration of the Chamber of Commerce and regional businesses, please contact Ben Schuttenbeld of the Chamber of Commerce The Hague. Tel. +31 (0)88 588 83 50 or e-mail: ben.schuttenbeld@kvk.nl.
Foundation for Regional Knowledge Development
As an organisation for the regional business community, the Chamber of Commerce established the Stichting Regionale Kennisontwikkeling in 2008 in cooperation with Leiden University. The goal of this organisation is to increase the research competence of companies and institutions in the The Hague region. Stichting Regionale Kennisontwikkeling manages a fund from which (a part of) PhD research can be funded. For further information about a contribution from the fund and the conditions that apply, please contact the board:
Drs. P.F. Meijer, director of ELCON sawmills
Dr. RE. Santing, Director of PROXY-Lab
Drs. C.A. Broeksma, partner Dual PhD Centre