Science is profoundly international and scientific cooperation is indispensable for tackling the international challenges of our time. Promoting international cooperation is therefore one of the four ambitions in the Strategic Agenda 2021-2025.
Science is profoundly international and scientific cooperation is indispensable for tackling the international challenges of our time. Promoting international cooperation is therefore one of the four ambitions in the Strategic Agenda 2021-2025.
Most of the Academy’s international activities focus on two areas:
The most important Science for Policy themes are climate, sustainability and health. Policy for Science deals with topics such as scientific integrity, digital developments such as Open Science, and reform of the science domain such as publication culture and recognition and rewarding. Academy members and experts nominated by the Academy regularly participate in working groups for international advisory reports and statements.
Within Europe, the Academy collaborates with other European academies as a member of various umbrella organisations: All European Academies (ALLEA), the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) and the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM). These three organisations are also jointly active within Scientific Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA), which provides advice directly to the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA) of the European Commission. The Academy is also a member of the Netherlands House of Education and Research (Neth-ER) association and the European Science Advisors Forum (ESAF). Finally, in the global arena, the Academy is active in the International Science Council (ISC), the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Global Science Forum (GSF).
For many years, the Academy, often in cooperation with NWO (the Dutch Research Council), has cooperated with China in the field of research. These programmes are now coming to an end. The China Exchange programme was completed during 2019 and the Scientific Alliance programme in 2021. The Academy no longer issues new calls for proposals.
In 2009, the Academy and NWO formulated a joint strategic policy to stimulate science and research cooperation with China. It was aimed at closer cooperation and better coordination between new and existing funding programmes. All programmes promoting scientific cooperation with China are intended to broaden and deepen Chinese-Dutch scientific cooperation on the basis of academic excellence and mutual interest and benefit. The programmes focus on specific forms of cooperation, research themes and/or specific groups of researchers.