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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Basic Equipment for Research Themes in Chemical Focus Areas (BAZIS) open for application
BAZIS is the Dutch acronym for Basic Equipment for Research Themes in Chemical Focus Areas (zwaartepunten). The grant is intended for requests for workhorse equipment to strengthen a Research Theme in a Chemical Focus Area (zwaartepunt) as defined in the Sector Plan Physics and Chemistry. The BAZIS grant will enable a rectification to the shortfall in equipment, something that is both very desirable and necessary within chemistry.
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 - Societal Innovation in Health Care, Education and Social Safety open for application
The programme Brain & Cognition aims at scientific progress and societal implementation of recent scientific insights with respect to the functioning of our brain, cognitive abilities and behaviour. This knowledge is applied to urgent societal questions in health care, education and social safety.
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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Clinical Fellows open for application
The programme Clinical Fellows is aimed at doctors who have completed the AGIKO course (Medical Assistant Training to be Clinical Researcher) or a comparable course. They must be willing to arrange their clinical-scientific work at an academic level as clinical specialists with a PhD degree, general practitioners or medical officers, for instance to present themselves as future candidates to be academic staff members or professors.
Computing Time National Computing Facilities continuous application
The National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) grants subsidies for the use of national computing facilities.
Cooperation China (NSFC) continuous 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 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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ECHO Project Grants open for application
Free Competition of the NWO Division for Chemical Sciences (CW)
ECHO-project grants offer the opportunity to carry out a high quality science driven chemical research project. In this way a challenging scientific idea can be pursued, a new research area can be opened up or a scientific innovation can be established.
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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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Horizon open for application
The Horizon programme aims to promote high-quality and visionary fundamental research in the field of genomics or biomolecular informatics.
Researchers from abroad may apply as well
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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.
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
ZonMw has a subsidy for investments with an ZonMw contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (NWO Medium).
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
NWO Division for the Humanities (GW)
NWO Division for the Humanities has a subsidy for investments with an NWO contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (NWO Medium).
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
NWO Division for Chemical Sciences (CW)
NWO Division for Chemical Sciences has a subsidy for investments with an NWO contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (NWO Medium).
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
NWO Division for Earth and Life Sciences (ALW)
NWO Division for Earth and Life Sciences has a subsidy for investments with an NWO contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (NWO Medium).
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
Cross-divisional applications
NWO has a subsidy for investments with an NWO contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (Investment Subsidy NWO Medium).
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
NWO Division for the Physical Sciences (EW)
NWO Division for the Physical Sciences has a subsidy for investments with an NWO contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (NWO Medium).
Investment Subsidy NWO Medium open for application
NWO Division for Social Sciences (MaGW)
NWO Division for Social Sciences has a subsidy for investments with an NWO contribution of between 110,000 and 900,000 euro (NWO Medium).
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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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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.
New Netherlands Polar Programme (NNPP) open for application
The objective of the New Netherlands Polar Programme is to stimulate high-quality scientific research on and into the polar areas. Yet participation in research on Antarctica should also support the Netherlands’ voting membership of the Antarctic Treaty. In addition to this, the NNPP strengthens the national coherency of Dutch Arctic research in the international context.
NWO Spinoza Prize open for application
Prize (2.5 million euro) as stimulus to further research.
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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.
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Planetary Boundaries Fresh Water Cycle open for application
The aim of the programme is to generate knowledge in the area of Planetary Boundaries Freshwater Cycle. Applicants are requested to pay particular attention to how the research contributes to determining worldwide boundaries for freshwater use.
Principal Investigator Preparatory Programme (PIPP) open for application
NWO Physical Sciences (EW) is cooperating with the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) in the Principal Investigator Preparatory Programme (PIPP). The programme focuses on preparing future Dutch principal investigator (PI) roles in scientific space missions.
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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.
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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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User Support Space Research open for application
NWO Division for the Earth and Life Sciences (ALW) is cooperating with the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) in the programme User Support Space Research. The aim of this programme is to provide support to researchers working in the Netherlands during the (preparation for) use of scientific infrastructure in space for the purpose of high quality research.
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Visitors Travel Grant continuous application
With this grant foreign visitors can stay in the Netherlands.
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Wim Nieuwpoort Award open for application
This annual Award is awarded to the research team, located at a Dutch university or scientific institute, which proves to be able to run a serious scientific application efficiently on a significant part of a large HPC-system.