The Academy advises on a wide range of scientific subjects. The perspectives for these advisory report subjects are outlined in ‘Knowledge-based!’, the Academy's strategic agenda for 2021-2025.
The Academy has established a number of advisory councils and advisory committees to assist it in its advisory task. They propose subjects and play a role in conducting peer reviews of advisory reports.
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has further analysed threats to academic freedom and repeated its call for stakeholders to focus on ways in which academic freedom can be better protected.
View publicationA report about first-generations academics' experiences.
View publicationRegular consultations with academics and the use of evidence-based methods can lead to important findings and reveal blind spots in science policy, according to The Young Academy in its report Informed choices.
View publicationThe 30st Gonda Lecture by Charlotte Schmid (Professor of History of the religions of India at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, France).
View publicationALLEA expresses its strong support for Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs), a legal mechanism that allows researchers to freely share publicly funded scholarly articles via institutional or other non-profit repositories.
View publicationIn the Annual Sustainability Report, you can read all about what the organisation, the Sustainability Working Group and the Institutes' Green Teams have been working on in 2023, as well as their plans for the coming period.
View publicationAnnual Address, 27 May 2024, by Marileen Dogterom, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
View publicationThe Academy and The Young Academy are deeply concerned about the austerity plans for higher education and research proposed in the outline coalition agreement of 16 May 2024.
View publicationAddress of the Presidents of National Academies of Sciences of the European Union Member States to the candidates for the 2024 European Parliament elections.
View publicationInternational research collaboration and an open science system are important for Dutch science and society and for the economy of the Netherlands. The Academy wishes to see international mobility preserved in the academic world.
View publicationArtificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionise scientific discovery, accelerate research progress, boost innovation and improve researchers’ productivity. The scientists involved with the advice were nominated by academies through the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences nominated Paul Groth, Professor of Algorithmic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam. He was involved in the working group that provided the scientific basis for this report.
View publicationCalligraphic stone epigraphs in Sanskrit and Khmer are the sole locally written sources for the earliest Khmer history.
View publicationDilemmas and discussions concerning knowledge security are at the heart of the mission and responsibilities of scientific endeavour; it is therefore crucial for the scientific community to deal with them scrupulously and judiciously. Given the importance and urgency of this issue, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) considers it its duty to speak out about it.
View publicationConsumers shouldn’t be the only ones responsible for the shift to sustainable food consumption, Academies advise European Commission A group of renowned scientists nominated by European academies through the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism, have advised Commissioners on how to transform European food consumption to become healthier and more sustainable. ..
View publicationThe direct health effects of these environmental changes are often clear, but the indirect effects are much more difficult to study, even though they are likely to impact many more people. In the report 'Planetary Health. An emerging field to be developed' the Academy surveys the knowledge gaps and identifies where progress can be made in filling them.
View publicationAcademy Lecture 30 May 2023, at the Academy Afternoon of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
View publicationIt is important and urgent for the planning agencies to systematically survey the effects of investments in science on indicators of broad well-being. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (the “Academy”) states this in a new advisory report on The Value of Science – Observe, Know and Measure [Waarde van Wetenschap – Observeren, weten en meten]. At present, that value is wrongly absent from the planning agencies' models, leading to underinvestment in science.
View publicationClimate 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) will be established as soon as possible. The Task Force report published details the potential design and function of the KIN.
View publicationDutch expertise in the field of drug development is too fragmented, with researchers’ efforts to get their discoveries to the patient being frustrated.
View publicationThe Academy, Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Associated Applied Research Institutes (TO2), Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (VH), and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) worked together to thoroughly amend and expand 'the Code' that has been in use since 2004.
View publicationPublic monuments can evoke strong emotions. In recent years, under the influence of movements such as Black Lives Matter, social awareness and the growth of historical knowledge, our views have changed radically. On occasions past heroes of have been pulled from their pedestals, but removing statues does not erase history. An Academy committee is going to advise on how we should deal with controversial heritage and how we can best conduct the related debate.
View publicationThis annual report will focus on the sustainability of our operations, as research programmes and developments such as the establishment of the Dutch Climate Research Initiative (KIN) have already been covered in the regular annual report.
View publication"Natural gas is no cleaner than other fossil fuels, and using it instead of coal or oil involves the risk of little or no reduction in the effects of greenhouse gases." That is the conclusion of the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in its new report on "The Future of Gas".
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