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Support and contribute to research on children’s rights, because every child deserves to be heard!

The Children’s Rights Research Fund provides financial support for academic research on children’s rights and related educational projects. The fund supports research and projects that help to improve the daily lives of children around the world and that focus on working directly with, rather than on children, making sure that children’s voices are heard.

Its main focus is on supporting educational and research projects with at least one project member in Maastricht University, that:

  • Improve the living conditions of children.
  • Research projects always contain a participatory element for children. Research in which children are not involved, will be excluded.
  • Educational projects always have a strong focus on critical, creative and problem solving thinking. ‘Passive knowledge’ projects will be excluded.

Proposals for projects can be submitted two times a year. The maximum amounts are €5.000 (research project) or €2.500 (educational project). Applicants should make very clear that they do not have access to the financial means in another way. 

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How to make a donation to this fund?

If you would like to make a donation to this fund, you can do so through the University Fund Limburg Attn Children’s Rights Research Fund, IBAN: NL21 INGB 0653 6632 42. You can also fill in this form.

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We are looking for you! Join these projects and apply to the CRR Fund

These researchers are looking for a Maastricht University (UM) affiliated persons (students or researchers) to collaborate on their projects! Contact the researchers directly through their contact information on their profile and apply for the fund.

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Athifah Utami

Project: Artificial Intelligence in Early Childhood Education
Doctoral Student in Digital Play and Digital Games-based Learning in Early Childhood Education Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) Description: The growing use of AI (Artificial Int...
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Sahlim Charles

Project: Children's Play Spaces and Well-Being
Sahlim Charles is the Executive Director for Re-Imagining New Communities Project Description: This research explores the availability, accessibility and condition of children's play and recreati...
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Tapiwanashe Hadzizi

Project: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence against Children
Founder of Young Africa Intellectuals (YAL Group) Project description: Building Youth-led Solidarity Economies: Facilitating and Addressing Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence against Children...
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Tuğçe Hitit

Project: Rights-Based School Model with Nature's and Children's Right
PhD Student and Activist at Hacetteppe University, Ankara, Türkiye Description: This study aims to develop and propose a rights based school model that combines children’s rights and nature’s rig...
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Wale Bakare

Project: Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE) in a Digitial World
Director of Webfala Digital Skills for all Initiative Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in the Digital World, with a specific emphasis on Nigeria and Ghana. Description: This research aims to i...
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Yael Warshel

Project: Trauma of Internal Displacement IsraeliPalestinian Conflict
Founding Director of the Children Media and Conflict Zones Lab, Assistant Professor (Penn State University), President Elect of the Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies, and author...
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Our Mission

The Children’s Rights Research project aims to improve the living conditions of children

We do this anywhere in the world by studying the factors that lead to the protection and/or violation of their rights. While our different projects vary in methodology, our point of departure is to listen to children first.

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Advisory committee

Meet the advisory committee of the Children’s Rights Research Fund. They advise the University Fund Limburg Board regarding the allocation of funding, develop funding calls and select the best projects that are eligible for funding.

Andrea Broderick

Prof. dr. Andrea Broderick is a Professor at Maastricht University, and holds the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace at Maastricht University, since September 2022. She holds a Ph.D. in international and comparative (European) human rights law, specifically on disability equality law. Andrea is also a qualified lawyer, who has previously worked in professional practice. She has done some research and practical legal work on children’s rights. Since May 2022, Andrea is the Co-director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights.
   

Christiane Verfuurden

hristiane is a lawyer, specialized in inheritance law and family law. She is an active member of the Association of Family- and Inheritance law Lawyers & Divorce Mediators (vFAS).
       

Fons Coomans

Fons holds the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace at the Department of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. Since 2019 he is the leader of the WOTRO-funded project on Development Rights of Children Living in Unrecognised States.
   

Philip Veerman

Philip Edmond Veerman is an expert in children’s rights, health-psychology and (special) education. He initiated several new child welfare organisations in the Netherlands and developed international children’s rights initiatives.
     
Partners

Meet our esteemed partners

We are proud and grateful to be able to work with our partners.