Call for proposals for Responsible Innovation (MVI)

3 december 2009

The NWO programme Responsible Innovation invites applications for research into societal and ethical aspects of technological development. The call includes the following themes: Human enhancement; Food; Animals, nature & natural habitat; and Intellectual Property Regimes (IPR). Research with relevance for and in cooperation with developing countries is explicitly invited. The call for proposals can be downloaded at www.nwo.nl/responsible-innovation or directly at the Subsidy Guide.

Please note that the description of the themes differs from the first call. Check the new call for proposals for the description.

Highlights

  • All applications are multidisciplinary (science/technology, humanities and social sciences).
  • The research proposals have to have a ‘make’ perspective, i.e. they should not only result in an analysis and understanding of a particular problem, but subsequently also lead to a 'design perspective' – in the broad sense, including institutional arrangements.
  • New in the second call is that the contribution to (the realisation of) innovation(s) is part of the assessment criteria.
  • Researchers are explicitly invited to submit applications for research that is relevant for developing countries, and involving researchers from developing countries.
  • For applications on the theme of Intellectual Property Regimes (IPR), researchers have to indicate how their proposed research relates to other research programmes and centres conducting or subsidising research into this field, like the Centre for Society and Genomics.

Deadlines
The deadline for the submission of preliminary proposals for long-term research is 2 February 2010, 12:00 hrs. Preliminary proposals for long-term research are compulsory.
The deadline for the submission of full proposals for short-term and long-term research is 26 May 2010, 12:00 hrs.

N.B. For short-term research, it is only possible to submit full applications.

Applicants that are willing to submit an application for short-term research are requested to inform the MVI bureau about it (see section 3.4 in the call).

MVI
The NWO theme Responsible Innovation (abbreviated to MVI) is one of NWO's thirteen themes. Those themes are clusters of multidisciplinary research programmes concentrating on current issues with both scientific and societal relevance. The MVI-programme is co-funded by several Dutch ministries.

More information
dr. Jasper Roodenburg (j.roodenburg@nwo.nl, +31 (0)70 344 0806)
Website: www.nwo.nl/responsible-innovation.
For the call go to ‘Subsidy Guide’ in the menu