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28 December 2018
After its start in 2017, 2018 was the first year in which the Domain Science fully acted within the renewed NWO. Here you will find a limited selection of the 2018 highlights.
27 December 2018
Within the first call of proposals of the LEAP-Agri partnership, a joint Europe Africa Research and Innovation initiative, 27 projects have been funded on sustainable agriculture and aquaculture and on food and nutrition security. Dutch researchers are involved within fourteen projects, of which four as main applicant. NWO-WOTRO funds ten projects.
21 December 2018
Eight projects were selected to receive funding in the second call of the joint SDG research programme of NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development and Dutch co-funding research organisations. This programme funds use-inspired research to the benefit of the most vulnerable people in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
20 December 2018
Today the sector outlooks for Science, Engineering and Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) were presented to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). The financial resources made available by the Ministry of OCW through the coalition agreement could strengthen the research base in the Netherlands.
Society faces significant challenges in the areas of climate change and energy, mobility, agriculture and food, and our natural habitat. It is expected that an accelerated approach is needed to realise the structural changes required. Effecting this acceleration requires knowledge about behaviour and how we can utilise this knowledge in various transitions. The following top sectors are participating in the call: Logistics, Life Sciences and Health, Agri&Food, Social Infrastructure Agenda, Water & Maritime, Energy, Chemistry, High-Tech Systems and Materials, ICT and Creative Industry.
Within the Integrator (Logistics as enabler for enhancing society) call four projects have been awarded funding. The projects concern the use of platooning in freight transport, logistical innovation within extramural care, service logistics concepts for operational and maintenance planning in the offshore energy industry, and the development of service logistics control towers in the maritime setting.
On 13 December, NWO allocated a total of EUR 10 million to five new Physics Vrije Programma’s. Each of these programmes is a collaboration involving multiple research universities and institutions, and each will last longer than five years. A total of 37 new PhD students and postdocs will be hired to carry out the research.
The board of NWO Domain Science (ENW) has granted funding for ten proposals in the Physics Projectruimte, a granting instrument for small-scale projects that propose innovative fundamental physics research that has a scientific, industrial or social urgency. In this last phase of the Physics Projectruimte 85 applications were assessed by NWO.
What counts as smart in the Netherlands is not necessarily smart in China. The sustainable development of urban areas in the Netherlands and China exhibits many similarities. This applies not just to the challenges but also to the smart solutions in terms of innovative technologies. Nevertheless, there are also differences, certainly with respect to sociodemographic factors. This conclusion was shared by researchers who have worked in the Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) – Smart Energy in Smart Cities. They presented their research during the concluding meeting on 26 November in Stadskasteel Oudaen, Utrecht.
For the second time, NWO is funding projects from the health and social sciences so that the research of others can be repeated. This concerns eight studies that in the past formed the basis for follow-up research or have assumed an important place in education, policy-making or the public debate.
