Policy

The Academy has described its policy for the 2010-2015 period in a strategic agenda entitled For Science and Scholarship – The Academy in the Knowledge-driven Society.

Duties

The Academy

• serves as a learned society representing the full spectrum of scientific and scholarly disciplines; 
• acts as a management body for national research institutes; 
• advises the Dutch Government on matters related to scientific pursuit.

Organisation

The Academy is both a learned society and an organisation of national research institutes. The Academy Board defines the overall policy and budget. In 2005 The Young Academy has been set up. Day-to-day management and overall responsibility is entrusted to the director general. The director of research is responsible for the policy of the Academy's research division.

Working for the Academy

Working for the Academy means working at the very heart of science and scholarship. Most of the Academy’s employees work for one of its seventeen research institutes. They either conduct research themselves or assist the researchers. The Academy adheres to the employment terms set out in the Collective Agreement for Universities in the Netherlands.

The Academy's history

The seventeenth century saw the emergence of the “academy”, a learned society whose members worked for the advancement of science and scholarship.

The Trippenhuis

Louys (1605-1684) and Hendrick Trip (1607-1666), the brothers who commissioned the building of the Trippenhuis, were arms dealers who established their firm Louys & Hendrick Trip ('Purveyors of Waepens, Artilleree, Shotte and Amunition of Werre') in Amsterdam.