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.
Dutch expertise in the field of drug development is too fragmented, with researchers’ efforts to get their discoveries to the patient being frustrated.
View publicationKnowledge institutions, research funders and public authorities must put the wishes and needs of scientists first when improving the storage and availability of data for research. Close cooperation between these parties and researchers on the work floor is vital. This is what the Academy is arguing in its advisory report 'Storage and availability of data for research - from intentions to implementation'.
View publicationThe systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the main message of the Academy advisory report. Funding agencies and scientific journals should also make it easier for researchers to carry out and publish replication studies.
View publicationThe decision to provide instruction in either Dutch or English in higher education requires great care. The choice must be made for each study programme separately, based on arguments relating to the programme’s subject matter and learning objectives.
View publicationThe Academy asks the members of the advisory committees, who deliver an advisory report, to sign a Declaration of Interest. It thus aims to guarantee the committee's independence and avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.
View publicationThis debate will concentrate on the benefits and risks of so called gain-of-function research.
View publicationThe academic endeavour has been a global activity for centuries, with researchers collaborating internationally in order to broaden and deepen their knowledge and scope. This booklet about the challenges and predicaments of international scientific cooperation deals with the responsibility that researchers and administrators must assume to make potential conflicts clear in advance. It offers them an analytical framework to assess the risks involved.
View publicationThe number of medical technology devices, already around half a million, will only increase in the future. New medical technology, before being used in the clinic or at home, must be thoroughly assessed on numerous aspects.
View publicationThis advisory report is a response to a request from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences on the role of (Dutch) science and technology in achieving the goals set at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The nations that gathered in 1992 will be reconvening in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 for the Rio+20 Summit. The objective of this Summit is to assess the progress that has been made since 1992 and to formulate redefined goals and guidelines on how to proceed.
View publicationThe Academy has undertaken to investigate how various disciplines actually deal with research data and to consider whether their practices are satisfactory.
View publicationOpen access and digital preservation; information for Academy researchers.
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.
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