The Academy's aim is to improve and position the Academy’s research institutes as dynamic national organisations that complement Dutch universities.
By 2020:
- all the institutes will be acknowledged top research organisations in their fields;
- the Academy’s research institutes will serve as incubators and magnets for top Dutch and foreign researchers, with (partly as a result) diversity and flexibility as the hallmarks of its staff;
- the institutes will play a pivotal role in exploring important current and new subjects in consortia with other research institutions, including university strategic agenda for 2016-2020;
- the institutes will initiate broad alliances and serve as nodes in infrastructures;
- all the institutes will actively pursue valorisation in the broadest sense of the word, i.e. creating value for society;
- access to the institutes’ collections will be optimised.