Open for application

The subsidies which are open for application at this moment are listed below.

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Aspasia continuous application
Aspasia was launched in October 1999 as a scheme to increase the number of women senior lecturers.
Athena continuous application
With this premium, the Division for the Chemical Sciences (CW) wants to realise the flow of women in the large group of postdocs with a temporary appointment to a tenured scientific position.
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Big Grid Computing and Data Facilities continuous application
The BiG Grid project is a collaboration between NCF, Nikhef and NBIC, and enables access to grid infrastructures for scientific research in the Netherlands. Through this, the BiG Grid project aims to facilitate e-science in many scientific disciplines.
Brain & Cognition: an Integrated Approach continuous application
This programme strives for better insight in cognitive functions from the molecular level all the way up to the interactions between individuals, and aims to promote brain and cognition research using an integrative approach.
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Computing Time National Computing Facilities continuous application
The National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) grants subsidies for the use of national computing facilities.
Conflict and Security - Fast Track open for application
More diversified societies are the result of globalization, international migration and mobility. This leads to the spreading and intensification of conflicts related to cultural, ethnic, religious, class and gender differences. Research within the scope of the strategic theme of Conflict and Security is aimed at addressing these urgent societal issues.
Cooperation China - Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) open for application
JSTP aims at stimulating sustainable research collaboration between China and the Netherlands by funding joint research projects and thematic dialogue seminars. The 2009 call for proposals addresses the research topic ‘Integrated Water Management in relation with climate change and sea level rise’.
Cooperation China (NSFC) open for application
NWO has a cooperation agreement with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), which offers Dutch researchers a chance to do joint research.
Cooperation Germany - von Humboldt Stiftung (VHS) continuous application
The Von Humboldt Stiftung (VHS) at Bonn every year offers two research prizes to Dutch senior researchers affiliated with a German research institute. NWO offers the same opportunity to two German senior researchers at Dutch research institutes.
Cooperation Germany (DFG) continuous application
Aim of the cooperation between Graduiertenkollegs and Research Schools is to cooperate in the education and training of doctoral students in both countries, within the framework of a jointly established and implemented research programme.
Cooperation India - New Medical Devices for Affordable Health open for application
Aim is to stimulate sustainable Indo-Dutch research collaboration by funding joint research projects on the topic medical devices that have the explicit goal to reduce the costs of health care either in India or in the Netherlands.
Researchers from abroad may apply as well
Cooperation Japan (JSPS) continuous application
NWO has a cooperation agreement with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which provides various opportunities for doing research in Japan.
Cooperation South Korea (KOSEF) continuous application
NWO has a cooperation agreement with the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), which offers Dutch researchers a chance to perform research in South Korea. In case of a jointly organised seminar applications can be submitted for a contribution towards the costs.
Cooperation Taiwan (NSC) continuous application
NWO has a cooperation agreement with the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC), which offers Dutch researchers a chance to do research in Taiwan. In case of a jointly organised seminar applications can also be submitted for a contribution towards the costs.
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Dutch-Belgian Beamline (DUBBLE) open for application
Through this fund researchers from the Netherlands and Flanders can gain access to a synchrotron radiation research facility.
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ERA-NET open for application
ERA-NET (European Research Area Networks) is the policy instrument of the European Commission (EC) for coordinating the national research programmes in Europe. In an ERA-NET there is cooperation and coordination among European research funding agencies.
Researchers from abroad may apply as well
EUROCORES open for application
EUROCORES stands for ‘European Science Foundation Collaborative Research Programmes Scheme.´ A EUROCORE is a grant scheme of the European Science Foundation (ESF). The ESF uses this instrument to promote multinational cooperation in Europa.
Researchers from abroad may apply as well
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Free Competition continuous application
Free Competition of the NWO Division for Physical Sciences (EW)
This programme offers financial support to research proposals without programmatic preconditions in the physical sciences upto 110.000 euro.
Free Competition continuous application
Free Competition of the NWO Division in the Humanities (GW)
This grant instrument is aimed at research programmes with a substantial humanities component.
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Grants Programme Parallelisation continuous application
The NCF Grants programme has a twofold objective: the parallelisation of existing scientific application software, or the (further) adapting of the programme code of scientific applications to the use on supercomputers, clusters and other parallel systems and the creation of a professional pool of qualified personnel able to conduct parallelisation efficiently.
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Incentive Fund Open Access Publications continuous application
The aim of this fund is to increase awareness of Open Access and to encourage the Open Access publication of NWO results.
Incidental Financial Support continuous application
Incidental financial support from the Division for Physical Sciences is primarily intended to strengthen the forum position of the exact sciences.
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme open for application
The Innovational Research Incentives Scheme consists of three different ; personal subsidy forms, each of which is designed for a different phase in the ; scientific careers of researchers, whether they only recently took their PhD or ; are already experienced and on the brink of a professorship.
Researchers from abroad may apply as well
Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme continuous application
The NWO Division for Earth and Life Sciences pays an annual contribution in order to give researchers the opportunity to conduct drillings into the ocean floor with drilling vessels and make accompanying measurements.
Integrated Programmes open for application
Free Competition of WOTRO Science for Global Development
The Integrated Programme scheme is aimed at supporting excellent problem-oriented interdisciplinary research to the benefit of development and societal issues in the South. An IP may address developmental and societal issues: in a broad sense that may lead to new insights, theories and/or breakthroughs in current knowledge and understanding or fitting within one or more of four themes of WOTRO’s framework: (A) Poverty and Hunger; (B) Sustainable Environment (C) Global Relationships.
Integrated Research in NWO Theme Sustainable Earth and National Programme Knowledge for Climate continuous application
This programme is part of the NWO theme Sustainable Earth and is being realised under the auspices of the National Partnership for Sustainable Earth research (NPDA), whose members include NWO, Knowledge for Climate Foundation, Energy research programmes, and several larger and smaller institutes that steer research in the field of sustainability and the Earth.
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Longitudinal studies in social and behavioural sciences open for application
Funding instrument of the Division for the Social Sciences (MaGW), complementary to Investment Subsidy NWO Medium, seeks to contribute to the data-gathering costs of a number of studies that measure changes in society.
Lorentz Center open for application
The Lorentz Center at Leiden University is an international visitors and study centre created to organise interactive study periods in the field of mathematics, astronomy, information science and physics. It also organises workshops in the field of the physical sciences.
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More Women Researchers as University Lecturers (MEERVOUD) open for application
In the Netherlands the percentage of women active in the natural sciences is inversely proportional to their position on the academic ladder. The MEERVOUD programme aims to help women postdocs become university lecturers by creating temporary part-time lecturer positions (or similar positions in institutes) of 0.8 FTE with the added guarantee of obtaining a (different) scientific position within their research institution.
Mosaic continuous application
The Mosaic programme is designed to attrect more ethnic minority graduates into academic research, in order to promote diversity.
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Network Subsidies continuous application
The subsidy programme Network Subsidies of the Division for Medical and Health Research is designed to encourage the organisation of scientific conferences in the field of health care.
NWO-nano open for application
The NWO-nano programme aims to promote excellent fundamental and application-oriented nanoscience and nanotechnology research into 4 specific themes: NanoMedicine, NanoInsights, Nanomaterials & Engineering (incl. design & manufacture) and Effect analysis
NWO Spinoza Prize continuous application
Prize (2.5 million euro) as stimulus to further research.
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Odyssee open for application
Odyssee is a partnership between the NWO Division for the Humanities, Erfgoed Nederland and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, for the purpose of disclosing archaeological field research carried out in the Netherlands between 1900 and 2000.
Open Programme continuous application
Free Competition of the NWO Division for the Earth and Life Sciences (ALW)
The Open Program of the Division for Earth and Life Sciences offers financial support across the full range of Dutch research in the earth and life sciences.
Open Research Area in Europe for the Social Sciences open for application
In order to strengthen European co-operation in the field of the social sciences, ANR, DFG, ESRC and NWO have launched a common call for proposals to fund the best joint research projects in the social sciences.
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Rubicon open for application
The aim of the Rubicon programme is to encourage talented researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands (maximum of two years).
Researchers from abroad may apply as well
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Scientific Meetings continuous application
NWO Division for Earth and Life Sciences subsidises national scientific discussion meetingsin order to promote national cooperation andcoordination in the field of the earth and life sciences.
Secondment Grant in the Humanities continuous application
The aim of the humanities secondment grant is to give PhD students in the humanities who work outside of a university the opportunity to complete their thesis by temporarily freeing them of their paid responsibilities.
Social Science Cooperation India-Netherlands open for application
The Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and NWO have started a joint Scholar Exchange scheme aimed at staff with an academic or research appointment, up to senior professors.
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Teacher in Research continuous application
The programme Teacher in Research allows fully qualified mathematics teachers to spend a number of months doing scientific research at a university.
TOP Grants continuous application
TOP Grants offer top research groups the opportunity to innovate their lines of research in terms of content and collaboration. The goal is to create room for groundbreaking science of superb quality.
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Visitors Travel Grant continuous application
With this grant foreign visitors can stay in the Netherlands.