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The war in Ukraine has laid bare obstacles for refugee scholars that have already existed for a considerable time. The Young Academy sets out the problems faced by knowledge institutions in this regard, and makes recommendations for structurally improving the situation for all refugee scholars in the Netherlands.
Read moreLeading virologist Ron Fouchier awarded Academy's M.W. Beijerinck Virology Prize. The €35,000 monetary award and a medal will be presented at the Dutch Annual Virology Symposium (DAVS) on 10 March 2023. On the same occasion, virologist Daniel Hurdiss will receive the €25,000 Beijerinck Premium for Young Virologists.
Read moreThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) condemns the Taliban's exclusion of women from higher education in Afghanistan and endorses the statements by both the International Science Council and the International Human Rights Network. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is a member of both those organisations.
Read moreThe Dobberke grant of the Dr. J.L. Dobberke Foundation for Comparative Psychology is intended for research in the field of animal behaviour; this includes fields as behavioural biology and psychology.
Read moreTwelve young researchers – three from each of the Academy's science domains – will be receiving an Academy Early Career Award in 2023. The prize consists of a sum of EUR 15,000 and a work of art. It is intended for researchers in the Netherlands at the beginning of their careers and who have innovative, original ideas. The Academy Early Career Award will be presented on 14 February 2023 for the fourth time.
Read more'Als we nu geen actie ondernemen om de impact van klimaatverandering op insecten beter te begrijpen en te verminderen, dan beperken we onze kansen op een duurzame toekomst met gezonde ecosystemen drastisch.' Deze boodschap komt uit het heel actuele wetenschappelijke artikel in Ecological Monographs op 7 november 2022, van 70 onderzoekers uit 19 landen en geleid door het NIOO-KNAW.
Read moreAcademics regularly face threats, harassment and hate speech. To address this issue, Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) are launching the platform WetenschapVeilig today. Academics who are being threatened or harassed can visit this website (www.wetenschapveilig.nl) 24 hours a day for help.
Read moreIn the Science Communication by Scientists: Rewarded! programme, the needs of scientists and the hurdles they have to surmount in this regard have been identified; a guide has also been compiled.
Read moreThe Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) and each of the 14 individual universities have signed the European ‘Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment’.
Read moreResearchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience show that powerful hierarchical situations make it easier to commit harmful actions, as agency and empathy are split across multiple individuals.
Read moreWith effect from 1 October, the cultural historian Inger Leemans (51) will become the interim director of the Academy’s Meertens Institute for the next six months. As head of NL-Lab she is already associated with the Academy’s Humanities Cluster. She is also professor of cultural history at VU University Amsterdam and a member of the Academy’s learned society. In her interim position, she is the successor to Antal van den Bosch, who was director of the Meertens Institute from 2017.
Read moreLaurence Zitvogel is receiving this year’s Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Award for her pioneering research and passionate commitment to improving the quality of treatment and care for cancer patients.
Read moreTo 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.
Read moreWe are colonized from birth by myriads of microbes in and on our body that constitute our microbiome. Numerous studies have shown that the composition and activity of our microbiome in various body sites are associated with health and disease.
Read moreSeven new research projects have been awarded grants from the Academy Institutes Research Fund. The projects include those concerning climate change and soil quality, data availability and re-use, and manipulation of public opinion on social media.
Read moreClimate 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) be established as soon as possible. The objective of the new DCRI is to make a substantial contribution to accelerating the transformations needed to achieve a sustainable, climate-neutral society by 2050. The Task Force report published today details the potential design and function of the KIN.
Read moreIn 2018 The Young Academy produced a guide for foreign researchers who would like to work in the Netherlands. Today 6 September 2022 we present the revised and updated online edition.
Read moreResearchers from the Organoid group (formerly the Clevers group) have improved human small intestinal organoids – miniature versions of the small intestine. This will help them to better study the functioning of the small intestine during health and disease. Specifically, the researchers managed to develop organoids that contain mature Paneth cells, which were not present in the previous human small intestinal organoids. The results of the study were published on the 23rd of August 2022 in Cell Stem Cell.
Read moreTo combat inappropriate behaviour at academic institutions, much more needs to be done in the way of prevention. The current approach focuses mainly on handling complaints, but social safety at universities and research institutes can only really be improved by making workplace behaviour a systematic subject of discussion.
Read moreLike the rest of society, the world of academia was turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. In its report The pandemic academic, published on 5 July, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences surveys the impact of the crisis on academia. Which of the changes brought about by the pandemic do we wish to retain, and which not? The report also looks in depth at how pandemic impacted trust in academic research and the relationship between academia, society and politics.
Read moreBrenda Penninx is to be the new vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences effective 1 September. She succeeds Marileen Dogterom, who became president of the Academy on 1 June. Brenda Penninx is professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC (VUmc location) and will combine this position with her work as vice president of the Academy.
Read moreDaan Frenkel, emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge, is receiving the award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his pioneering and innovative work in theoretical physics.
Read moreThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected 22 new members, including three foreign members. Academy members, leading researchers from across all the disciplines, are selected for their scientific and scholarly achievements.
Read moreKnowledge institutions and the AcademicTransfer career platform are launching the nationwide platform for Ukrainian refugee scientists: AcademicsNLforUkraine. This is where the national offer of guest workplaces and research facilities, such as labs and workshops, will be located for temporary use by Ukrainian researchers.
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