Dutch Research Council

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Dutch Research Council
AbbreviationNWO
Formation1950;74 years ago (1950)
PurposeTo realize quality and innovation in science
Headquarters The Hague, Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands
Chairman Governing Board
Marcel Levi
Budget
1 billion euros
Website www.nwo.nl/en
The NWO headquarters, The Hague Netherlands, The Hague, Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indie 300 - 334, NWO and ZonMw building.jpg
The NWO headquarters, The Hague

The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of Dutch science by means of subsidies and research programmes. NWO promotes quality and innovation in science. NWO is an independent administrative body under the auspices of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

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NWO directs its approximate budget of 1 billion euros towards Dutch universities and institutes, often on a project basis. Also, NWO has its own research institutes and facilitates international cooperation. The president of NWO since April 2021 is Marcel Levi. Former NWO presidents include Stan Gielen, Peter Nijkamp and Jos Engelen.

NWO is also known for the annual Spinoza and Stevin Prizes.

History

The council was established in 1950 as Nederlandse Organisatie voor Zuiver-Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (ZWO). This organisation did not focus on applied research; the research organization TNO was established for that purpose. In 1988 ZWO was renamed as NWO and was given the broader mission. Like its predecessor, NWO is a public institution; its tasks and responsibilities are established in the NWO Act. [1]

On 1 January 2018 the former FOM institutes AMOLF, ARCNL, DIFFER and Nikhef and the over 200 university workgroups from the former FOM projects merged with the other NWO institutes (NWO-I): ASTRON, CWI, NIOZ, NSCR and SRON.

NWO signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in May 2005. [2]

NWO organisation

NWO Domains

NWO's core task is performed in the NWO domains, research institutes and regional bodies: encouraging quality and innovation in the sciences. The NWO domains organise the programmes and the research funding. Both the Executive Board and the NWO Domain Boards have the competence to allocate public funding for scientific research.

Health Research and Development is managed by ZonMw. WOTRO Science for Global Development is a domain intersecting initiative.

NWO-I, Institutes Organisation of NWO

NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, works closely with the NWO domains and encompasses 9 institutes. The office of NWO-I supports all institutes.

The institute Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS, in cooperation with KNAW) and Netherlands eScience Center, in cooperation with SURF are also part of NWO.

Temporary Task Forces

The Temporary Task Forces have a semi-permanent status. They collaborate with industry experts in order to accelerate the development of promising technologies.

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