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  • Fast Track Research projects granted within Food & Business Global Challenges Programme

    27 November 2015

    There is an urgent and growing need for new knowledge that contributes to new insights, policies and practices to meet food security challenges. GCP-funded research projects aim to generate research-based advanced understanding of emerging key issues in food security and their impact on regional and local food security, and the role of private sector development. The projects focus on sustainable food systems and/or urbanization and challenges for food and nutrition security in Ethiopia, Kenia, Benin and Indonesia.

  • Call for expressions of interest to participate in the workshop Data-driven research for Banking & Insurance

    26 November 2015

    Achmea, Rabobank and NWO Physical Sciences are organising a workshop to interest the scientific community for participation in the research programme Data-driven Research for Banking & Insurance. Researchers are invited to submit areas of interest to join the workshop and to help fine-tune the research topics within this programme. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, 26 January 2016 from 13.00-16.00. The venue will be Achmea Conference Center in Zeist.

  • Surprise: one organism responsible for nitrification instead of two

    26 November 2015

    It could never be found until recently, in a fish tank a few floors below Radboud University’s microbiology department: one single organism able to perform the complete process of nitrification. Microbiologists used to think that two distinct groups of bacteria were responsible for the stepwise oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite. Nature magazine publishes the results – which have implications on climate research and wastewater treatment – on November 26.

  • From 'as soon as possible' to 'immediate' Open Access

    26 November 2015

    NWO will tighten its granting conditions in the area of Open Access with effect from 1 December. In concrete terms this means that all publications emerging from a 'call for proposals’ published by NWO after this date must be immediately accessible to everybody from the moment of publication.

  • Tackling negative body image among women by emphasising functionality

    24 November 2015

    Women who nurse negative thoughts about their appearance think that people look at them just as disapprovingly. Such a negative body image can lead to a wide range of complaints, from depression to eating disorders and obesity. A solution appears to be at hand: women who concentrate on what their body can do instead of what it looks like are far more satisfied about their appearance. Psychologist Jessica Alleva discovered this during her PhD project ‘Give us a smile and lighten us up’ that she carried out with funding from the Free competition of NWO Division for the Social Sciences. Alleva defends her PhD thesis on Wednesday 25 November at Maastricht University.

  • Record number of female scientists visit Pump Your Career

    24 November 2015

    ‘You’re never ready for the next step. Just go for it, even if you’re scared to death.’ This statement by the event’s host, Eva Jinek, kicked off the day for more than 600 women in Amersfoort. Pump Your Career, a talent and career day for women in science, was organised by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Dutch Network for Women Professors (LNVH). The record number of visitors confirmed the usefulness and necessity of this unique women’s event

  • New grant application system: ISAAC

    23 November 2015

    As of today, NWO uses a new application and reporting system: ISAAC. Research proposals can now be submitted through this new application to NWO.

  • Urban Heat: natural and anthropogenic factors influencing urban air temperatures

    18 November 2015

    The air temperature in urban areas often differs from that of the surrounding countryside, a phenomenon that is known as the ’urban heat island’. This thesis deals with understanding the physical processes that determine the urban heat island and how it relates to natural and anthropogenic factors.

  • Six integrated research projects granted in the Urbanising Deltas of the World programme

    15 November 2015

    NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development granted six projects as part of the second call for proposals within the Urbanising Deltas of the World Programme. The projects cover a variety of innovative approaches towards challenges in delta areas in Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, and Ghana. The projects in in the second call specifically target cooperation between researchers and businesses, with partners from the Netherlands and the water partner countries of Dutch Development cooperation. The UDW programme is a joint activity of NWO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aligned to the topsector Water.

  • Preannouncement: A call for collaborative research projects on Society, Integrity and Cyber‐security

    11 November 2015

    NordForsk, together with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is issuing a preannouncement for a call within the Nordic Societal Security Programme. The call will be issued in December with application deadline 15 March 2016.

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