The Academy advises on a wide range of scientific subjects. The perspectives for these advisory report subjects are outlined in ‘Knowledge-based!’, the Academy's strategic agenda for 2021-2025.
The Academy has established a number of advisory councils and advisory committees to assist it in its advisory task. They propose subjects and play a role in conducting peer reviews of advisory reports.
The 30st Gonda Lecture by Charlotte Schmid (Professor of History of the religions of India at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, France).
View publicationALLEA expresses its strong support for Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs), a legal mechanism that allows researchers to freely share publicly funded scholarly articles via institutional or other non-profit repositories.
View publicationIn the Annual Sustainability Report, you can read all about what the organisation, the Sustainability Working Group and the Institutes' Green Teams have been working on in 2023, as well as their plans for the coming period.
View publicationAnnual Address, 27 May 2024, by Marileen Dogterom, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
View publicationThe Academy and The Young Academy are deeply concerned about the austerity plans for higher education and research proposed in the outline coalition agreement of 16 May 2024.
View publicationAddress of the Presidents of National Academies of Sciences of the European Union Member States to the candidates for the 2024 European Parliament elections.
View publicationInternational research collaboration and an open science system are important for Dutch science and society and for the economy of the Netherlands. The Academy wishes to see international mobility preserved in the academic world.
View publicationArtificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionise scientific discovery, accelerate research progress, boost innovation and improve researchers’ productivity. The scientists involved with the advice were nominated by academies through the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences nominated Paul Groth, Professor of Algorithmic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam. He was involved in the working group that provided the scientific basis for this report.
View publicationCalligraphic stone epigraphs in Sanskrit and Khmer are the sole locally written sources for the earliest Khmer history.
View publicationPublic monuments can evoke strong emotions. In recent years, under the influence of movements such as Black Lives Matter, social awareness and the growth of historical knowledge, our views have changed radically. On occasions past heroes of have been pulled from their pedestals, but removing statues does not erase history. An Academy committee is going to advise on how we should deal with controversial heritage and how we can best conduct the related debate.
View publicationDilemmas and discussions concerning knowledge security are at the heart of the mission and responsibilities of scientific endeavour; it is therefore crucial for the scientific community to deal with them scrupulously and judiciously. Given the importance and urgency of this issue, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) considers it its duty to speak out about it.
View publicationConsumers shouldn’t be the only ones responsible for the shift to sustainable food consumption, Academies advise European Commission A group of renowned scientists nominated by European academies through the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism, have advised Commissioners on how to transform European food consumption to become healthier and more sustainable. ..
View publicationThe direct health effects of these environmental changes are often clear, but the indirect effects are much more difficult to study, even though they are likely to impact many more people. In the report 'Planetary Health. An emerging field to be developed' the Academy surveys the knowledge gaps and identifies where progress can be made in filling them.
View publicationAcademy Lecture 30 May 2023, at the Academy Afternoon of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
View publication"Natural gas is no cleaner than other fossil fuels, and using it instead of coal or oil involves the risk of little or no reduction in the effects of greenhouse gases." That is the conclusion of the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in its new report on "The Future of Gas".
View publicationIn a new report, scientists from National Science Academies express concern about Member States and industry using loopholes in EU pesticide regulations to allow the continued use of banned insecticides. Prof. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Director: “To claim that the threat to food security due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means we have to stick with conventional chemical-dependent agriculture is unjustified. There is plenty of evidence that proposed alternative methods can deliver the same or even better yields while maintaining nature’s ecosystem services.”
View publicationIt is important and urgent for the planning agencies to systematically survey the effects of investments in science on indicators of broad well-being. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (the “Academy”) states this in a new advisory report on The Value of Science – Observe, Know and Measure [Waarde van Wetenschap – Observeren, weten en meten]. At present, that value is wrongly absent from the planning agencies' models, leading to underinvestment in science.
View publicationIn its latest statement, the European federation of academies of sciences and humanities (ALLEA) evaluates the undesirable effects of current 'big deals' and provides recommendations for research institutions, libraries, and policymakers on how to arrive at a more equitable system for sharing and accessing research publications under the new EU copyright rules.
View publicationUpinder Singh argues that the fundamental template of ancient Indian political ideology and religious policy was established during the period c. 200 BCE-300 CE through a continuous dialogic process revealed in the manner in which kings inscribed their power on their realm. She does so by drawing on epigraphic evidence to focus on three themes.
View publicationThe Rewarded! guide, published on 31 October 2022, helps knowledge institutions to recognize and reward scientists who are structurally involved in science communication and public engagement activities.
View publicationTo be properly prepared for future large-scale infectious disease outbreaks, Dutch scientists need to better cooperate, both within and beyond their discipline. They also need to share research data with one another more frequently. In a new advisory report, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, “the Academy”) argues that policymakers and knowledge institutions have an important role to play in making this possible. According to the Academy, by already creating the right conditions right now, scientists can get straight to work if the situation calls for it.
View publicationClimate scientists, united in a temporary advisory body set up by NWO and KNAW, are recommending that a ‘Dutch Climate Research Initiative’ (Klimaatonderzoek Initiatief Nederland – KIN) will be established as soon as possible. The Task Force report published details the potential design and function of the KIN.
View publicationAt the request of the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (the “Academy”) has published Social Safety in Dutch Academia: From Paper to Practice, a guide with recommendations and tips for preventing or tackling inappropriate behaviour at an early stage. Its purpose is to initiate a process for increasing social safety in Dutch academia.
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