New Theme Grants Awarded by Netspar and Instituut Gak

Netspar and Instituut Gak have awarded new theme grants with an amount of € 350,000 per research project. Each research project lasts a period of three to four years.

The theme grants were awarded following scientific validation by the Scientific Council and recommendation from the Partner Research Council. They include the research of:

• Kène Henkens and Matthijs Kalmijn (NIDI): The new role of households and organizations in the retirement process
• Bastiaan Starink (Tilburg University): Improving supplementary pension participation and accrual in the Netherlands: a comparative study of New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and the Netherlands on pension design and pension taxation in relation to the labor market
• Olaf Simonse (Leiden University) en Verena Seibel (Utrecht University): Preventing financial vulnerability during retirement: cumulative risk factors and impactful interventions
• Jonas Heller (Maastricht University): See4YourFutureSelf: Pension engagement by inducing future-self continuity

The research of Bastiaan Starink and Jonas Heller, respectively, was awarded and funded by Instituut Gak. The research of Olaf Simonse has been awarded an additional €25,000 from the so-called CLICKNL impulse.

Netspar congratulates the researchers on this award and looks forward to seeing the results of their research. The scheduled starting date for most projects is 1 January 2025.