{"id":2002,"date":"2026-07-22T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:44:14","slug":"westerdijk-institute-secures-two-major-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/westerdijk-institute-secures-two-major-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Westerdijk Institute secures two major grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2002\" class=\"elementor elementor-2002\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-29f8c9db elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"29f8c9db\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-20cd97ab\" data-id=\"20cd97ab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e18351b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e18351b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n    <div style=\"display:flex; align-items:flex-start; gap:30px;\">\n\n        <div style=\"flex:1; padding:0; margin:0;\">\n\n            The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute has secured two major grants that will strengthen data-driven fungal research. <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/q4n5_ukzPc9p7pEck-0ITBKLKja0I9CB\">Funding from Open Science NL and the new national FUNGI-NL initiative<\/a> will support the development of FAIR fungal data infrastructure, open digital resources and collaboration across the Netherlands, helping accelerate research into fungi&#8217;s role in health, agriculture, biodiversity and biotechnology.\n\n            <p style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:0;\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/2ohTd8EUz1lTYz7nJY-oeBiWnsjdRBuT\"\n                   style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n\n        <div style=\"width:250px; margin:0; padding:0;\">\n\n            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                src=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/c\/hOmk1hd6Lhi_o2TyV2JA9w\/media\/Westerdijke-Institute.png\"\n                alt=\"Westerdijk Institute secures two major grants\"\n                style=\"\n                    width:250px;\n                    max-width:100%;\n                    height:auto;\n                    display:block;\n                    margin:0;\n                \"\n            \/>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute has secured two major grants that will strengthen data-driven fungal research. Funding from Open Science NL and the new national FUNGI-NL initiative will support the development of FAIR fungal data infrastructure, open digital resources and collaboration across the Netherlands, helping accelerate research into fungi&#8217;s role in health, agriculture, biodiversity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_freestyle","category-research"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Westerdijke-Institute.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9598,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/9598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}