Research News

News consists of Research Reports, highlights of research results funded by NWO, and Press Releases by NWO and her Divisions. An email alert system sends these reports to subscribers. They are available in print as well. Research Reports are taken from the immense amount of research projects concluded each year.

News on health research you can find on the website of ZonMw as well.

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6 February 2012

Call for proposals Technology Area Biomass

1 February 2012

Six Joint MFS II programmes awarded

Six research proposals have been awarded in the Joint MFS II evaluations of development interventions.
1 February 2012

Funding for new Open Access journal 'Asia Matters'

The NWO Incentive Fund Open Access has awarded funding for the establishment of a new Open Access journal, Asia Matters. Business, Culture and Theory.
31 January 2012

Vici grant for research on new ICT and social media in African conflict zones

Anthropologist Mirjam de Bruijn has been awarded a Vici grant by NWO for investigating the influence of new communication technologies and social media on changing social and political relations in northern Central Africa.
31 January 2012

True history of Ferdinand Bol paintings revealed

For the past 100 years, four gigantic paintings have hung in the Peace Palace in The Hague. Together with a fifth painting in the State Room in Den Bosch they form an impressive series. This series, painted by Ferdinand Bol in the 17th century, has always been shrouded in mysteries. Why was the series commissioned and who commissioned it? How did the paintings originally hang? And why is there no apparent connection between the subjects of the paintings? With the help of an innovative interdisciplinary approach, NWO researcher Margriet van Eikema Hommes discovered that the paintings are the result of the ambitions of an incredibly rich widow from Utrecht who decorated her spectacular reception room with them.
31 January 2012

Thirty-one top researchers receive 1.5 million euro grants

Thirty-one leading scientists will each receive 1.5 million euros to carry out research over the next five years. They have been awarded a Vici grant from NWO's Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. Vici is one of the largest individual scientific grants in the Netherlands.
30 January 2012

Children can learn arithmetic faster and better

During the first two years of primary education children can learn to do arithmetic faster and better with the help of a more systematically structured educational programme. For older children, teaching arithmetic with the systematic use of visual aids, such as blocks and strings of beads, has many advantages. This is apparent from the review study by NWO researchers Egbert Harskamp and Annemieke Jacobse from the University of Groningen.
26 January 2012

Co-operation China - National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

In 2009, NWO and NSFC decided to expand their existing agreement focusing on exchange of researchers with an additional component focusing on funding joint research projects. The 2012 Call for Proposals addresses the research topic 'The Application of Operations Research in Urban Transport'.
26 January 2012

Health workers in Ghana not negative towards HIV patients

WOTRO researcher Jonathan Mensah Dapaah received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam on 24 January 2012 for his study on the way in which HIV/aids is treated in two different types of health care centres in Ghana.
24 January 2012

World-famous works of art unravelled with the help of science

NWO is bringing scientists, museums and curators from throughout the world together to do research into the conservation and restoration of works of art. The Science4Arts programme has awarded funding to six projects. Works such as paintings by Van Gogh and Rembrandt, ancient Mexican pictographic stories and modern photographic art will be examined in greater detail. A total of 3.6 million euros has been made available for the research.
16 January 2012

Second Call Joint MFS II evaluations of development interventions: Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda and International lobbying & advocacy

On 16 January 2012 WOTRO launched two second calls for proposals concerning the evaluation of development interventions. The calls relate to the evaluation of international lobbying and advocacy and to the evaluations at country level, specifically Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda.
16 January 2012

Dutch laboratories depart for Antarctica

This year the Netherlands will have its own laboratories on Antarctica for the first time. Three of the four laboratories started their journey to Antarctica on Monday 16 January. State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, Halbe Zijlstra, together with NWO chair, Jos Engelen, sealed the laboratories for transport and announced their names.