Uitzicht is a cooperation of several Dutch funds for people with visual impairment. These funds finance -among other things- scientific research on the origins, prevention and treatment of eye diseases and disorders.

The aim of the cooperation is to provide a clearing house for grant applications with an independent review procedure. ZonMw also supports this initiative. The LSBS manages the secretarial work.

As an ophthalmic scientist you can find more information on this site about the request of research subsidies.

As for non-scientific subsidy requests for private persons with visual impairment, we refer to: Blindenfonds.

Requesting Subsidies (regular and pilot)
You can request subsidies for the funding of scientific research or smaller pre-research projects as further described in types of research. Each of the participating funds of Uitzicht individually decides upon the (partial) acceptance of your request, according to their own policy. All funds have the advantage of full autonomy and policy freedom.

By signing the request form the applicant agrees with the types of research, preconditions and the described procedure. You can download this as a document named Oproep.

Pilot-studies (investigation and enumeration of the 'problems'). The participating funds of UitZicht are in general open to subsidy requests for pilot-studies (in Dutch). For pilot-studies we have a special pilot-form. The maximum  amount to be requested is Euro 75.000. Applications are to be submitted in Dutch and only Dutch reviewers will be asked to review.

Fifth round (2012)
Completed request forms for the fourth subsidy round should be submitted until 15 January 2012 at the latest.