The Academy is required by law to adopt a strategic plan every four years. It 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. The agenda focuses on the Academy’s core roles: as a learned society; as a research organisation; and as an advisory body.

Strategic Agenda 2010-2015

The Academy’s strategic agenda, published in May 2010, builds on its previous policy plan, Sustainable Science (2006-2010).  It also offers a response to the evaluation conducted in late 2007.

Policy aims 2015

The strategic agenda for 2010-2015 identifies the following aims:

• help the Netherlands get back into the top five of knowledge-driven economies;
• play a greater role as an advisory body; 
• improve membership diversity; 
• draft a Dutch Research Agenda;
• get young people interested in research;
• have the Academy research institutes focus more on knowledge utilisation;
• improve the status of the Academy research institutes in science and scholarship.

Annual address

Every year, the President of the Academy gives an annual address, outlining his thoughts on the state of science and scholarship in general and of the Academy in particular.