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  • 12 May 2022

    Royal Academy selects 22 members

    The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected 22 new members, including three foreign members. Academy members, leading researchers from across all the disciplines, are selected for their scientific and scholarly achievements.

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  • 22 April 2022

    National platform for Ukrainian scientists

    Knowledge institutions and the AcademicTransfer career platform are launching the nationwide platform for Ukrainian refugee scientists: AcademicsNLforUkraine. This is where the national offer of guest workplaces and research facilities, such as labs and workshops, will be located for temporary use by Ukrainian researchers.

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  • 4 March 2022

    Dutch knowledge institutions suspend partnerships with Russia and Belarus

    The Russian military assault on Ukraine has profoundly shocked knowledge institutions in the Netherlands, as represented by Universities of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Dutch Research Council, the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centres and The Young Academy.

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  • 28 February 2022

    KNAW-response to the military invasion of Ukraine

    In response to last week’s military invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) joins its fellow academies in All European Academies (ALLEA) and wholeheartedly underwrites the below statement made by the ALLEA presidency in support of Ukraine, its citizens, its academics, and its academic Institutions.

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  • 16 October 2020

    Academy advocates continuous personal working capital - rolling grants - for scientists

    All scientists with a permanent position at a university or UMC must be given their own working capital, which they may spend on their work as they see fit. In an advisory report on a rolling grant fund that Ingrid van Engelshoven, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, received today, the Academy advocates grants for scientists at different stages of their careers.

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  • 1 September 2020

    New national action plan for diversity and inclusion

    In the national action plan for greater diversity and inclusion in scientific education and research, Ingrid van Engelshoven, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, presents ambitions and actions to create an inclusive, diverse and safe learning and working environment. This action plan means that the Dutch scientific education and research sector, together with the government, is taking the next step in the area of diversity and inclusion.

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