International cooperation outside Europe

NWO is also active outside Europe. There is cooperation with the USA (National Science Foundation, Fulbright Award), with Russia and various Asian countries such as China, Taiwan and Korea. Possibilities for cooperation with a number of fast-growing economies, such as India, are being explored.

Via the WOTRO Foundation (Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research) NWO supports research in and about the tropics in the broadest possible scientific context. Capacity building in the countries involved plays a major role in this. NACCAP (Netherlands-African Partnership for Capacity Development and Clinical Interventions against Poverty-related Diseases) is an example of this.