Content classification of ALW Research Programmes

Terrestrial systems and living environment:

• Biodiversity (stimulation programme) completed
• Biodiversity in disturbed ecosystems (priority programme) completed
• Biodiversity in relation to Global Change (BIGC) completed
• Climate Variability
• Dutch Polar Programme(NPP)
• Dutch Programme for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY•NL) completed
• Ecogenomics
• Feedbacks in the Climate System (Sustainable Earth)
• Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ)
• National programme Sea- and Coastal Research (ZKO)
• Sustainable Use and Conservation of Marine Living Resources (priority programme SUSUSE)
• System-oriented Ecotoxicological Research (stimulation programme SSEO) completed
• TRIpartite Approach to Soil system processes (TRIAS)
• User Support Programme Space Research 2007-2011 for Earth Observation
• Water

From building block to Biosphere:

• Agriculture Beyond Food (Cooperation Indonesia)
• Brain and cognition: and integrated approach
• Centres for Systems Biology Research (CSBR)
• Cognition (theme Cognition and behaviour) completed
• Ecology Regarding Gene-modified Organisms (ERGO)
• Evolution and behaviour (theme Cognition and behaviour) completed
• From Molecule to Cell (MtC) completed
• Genomics completed
• Green Genetics
• National Initiative Brain and Cognition (NI)
• Physical Biology completed
• The Value of Animal Welfare

EUROCORES (Programmes managed by the European Science Foundation ESF)

Open programme ALW (free competition)