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Fifty-one young academics at Dutch universities and research institutes will receive a European Starting Grant of an average of 1.5 million euros. Two-thirds of the winners are international researchers.
Dutch science has flourished in recent years, sees the Rathenau Instituut. But the required cultural change is coming about slowly, the workload is still sky-high and the new government wants to make cuts yet again.
When it comes to scientific impact, the Netherlands and Switzerland lead the way worldwide, publisher Elsevier reports. This is mainly due to the many publications in collaboration with foreign researchers.
Out of the 35 Vici grants awarded to top researchers by science funding body NWO today, twenty have gone to women. Researcher Frances Handoko-de Man of Amsterdam UMC is among the recipients.
In 2036, there must be an equal number of men and women full professors working at the Dutch universities, the new Women Professors Monitor reads. But this won’t happen automatically.
A novel gravitational wave detector can help us look further back in time than ever before. ‘I would be really surprised if we didn’t find anything strange.’
From murder to dismissal: this year, human rights organisation Scholars at Risk counted 409 attacks on academic freedom in 66 countries. This is an increase compared to last year. The Netherlands is one of the countries mentioned. The ninth edition…
The Netherlands is lagging behind its international competitors in spending on STEM, education minister Robber Dijkgraaf has revealed. The number of new Bachelor’s students on STEM programmes is also relatively low.
Climate science doesn’t get more influential than this: VU professor Bart van den Hurk has been selected for a leading role in the UN climate panel: the IPCC. As co-chair of Working Group II, he aims to pinpoint the real…
The world’s biggest companies like Gucci, Disney and Delta Airlines compensate their carbon emissions by spending millions on projects reducing deforestation. Environmental scientist Thales Pupo West and colleagues discovered that 90 percent of these projects are not effective.
