17 February 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded 34 leading scientists a Vici grant worth one and half million euros. Vici is one of the largest grants for individual scientists in the Netherlands and is part of NWO's Talent Scheme. The funding will enable the scientists to develop their own innovative research line for the next five years and build up their own research group.
14 February 2017
On 10 February, a pre-proposal meeting took place on the fourth call of the Food & Business Global Challenges Programme. The meeting focused on the options for collaboration with the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). About 35 potential applicants attended the meeting at the NWO premises.
8 February 2017
NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development granted twelve projects for the call ‘Call for applied research on addressing mixed migration flows’. This call aims to strengthen the evidence-base of policies and/or programmes for Security & Rule of Law addressing the root causes, dynamics and consequences of mixed migration flows within/from Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings and to unlock this knowledge for practitioners organisations.
