25 May 2018
“It is difficult to have impact in politics, but it has been possible to have impact at the social level.” This was one of the findings made by Dr Parvin Sultana, project lead of Community Based Adaptive Learning in the management of Conflicts and Natural Resources (CALCNR), one of seven projects of the DFID/NWO-WOTRO-funded Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of Climate Change programme (CCMCC) which gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal to discuss the impacts of conflict and climate change on women.
NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, together with eight universities, will fund use-inspired research to tackle global challenges in the second call for proposals of the Joint SDG research programme. Today, a joint call for proposals was launched to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals in an innovative way and with a focus on the most vulnerable people in low- and middle-income countries. A total budget of eight million euros is available.
24 May 2018
At the start of next month, the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities will launch a new funding instrument: the NWO Open Competition – SSH for free, curiosity-driven research. Researchers will be able to submit proposals without any thematic limitations for projects that primarily have a social sciences or humanities research question and hypothesis. The budget available exceeds 16.5 million euros. The deadline for pre-proposals is 25 September 2018, the deadline for full proposals is 7 March 2019.
Today NWO launched the first funding round for the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) programme. The programme encourages broad-based multidisciplinary consortia to submit research proposals that are compatible with one or more of the 25 NWA routes. The research focuses on the entire chain of fundamental, applied and practical research. An amount of 52.2 million euros has been set aside for this funding round. The deadline for preliminary proposals is 11 September 2018.
In European countries, the level of trust in the police is relatively high compared to other institutions such as the parliament, the judiciary and the civil service. Low corruption and a police force that acts with integrity are more important for winning trust than the crime figures. That is apparent from research carried out by criminologist Dorian Schaap. He recently obtained his PhD with NWO funding for Research Talent at Radboud University.
From now on, project leaders can authorise others to carry out administrative actions for their project in NWO's online application and reporting system ISAAC.
On 17 May the Board of the NWO Domain Science granted two applications in the research programme Complexity – Programmable Self-organisation. Phuong Nguyen and Wolf Mooij and their consortia will work on their research projects in the area of complex systems regarding principles of self-organisation. In total 12 preproposal applications were submitted, resulting in 6 full proposal applications.
23 May 2018
Three student teams were selected to carry out their project with a paid internship during this summer on the basis of their research proposal. The winner will be selected from these three teams in October. The winning team in the Student Competition will be announced during CHAINS 2018.
22 May 2018
Four Dutch researchers will participate in an international expedition about the environmental effects of deep sea mining. NWO is making 600,000 euros available for this as part of its contribution to the Top Sector Water.
17 May 2018
Senior experts employed by Dutch research organisations and involved in CGIAR research or management, are offered a chance to spend (more) time on their CGIAR activities, since they will be able to apply for a grant that enables them to cover part of their personnel costs. A call for Senior Expert Candidates within the framework of the Netherlands – CGIAR partnership is open now, the deadline for the first assessment round is 5 July 2018.
