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Mandatenregeling KNAW

Knowledge and creativity as the basis of our society.

Welcome to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW): guardian and interpreter of science in the Netherlands

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Staff members each contribute to achieving the Academy's mission in an inclusive work environment.

Work for the Academy

The IISG is a leading international archive and research institute in the field of social history, the history of labour and social movements.

The IISG is a leading international archive and research institute in the field of social history, the history of labour and social movements.

International Institute of Social History (IISH)

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study is an intellectual haven for international researchers, writers, journalists and artists to pursue their research or projects, to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to share their knowledge with society.

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study is an intellectual haven for international researchers, writers, journalists and artists to pursue their research or projects, to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to share their knowledge with society.

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) is the Netherlands institute for permanent access to digital research resources.

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) is the Netherlands institute for permanent access to digital research resources.

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (Westerdijk Institute) is an Academy research institute that maintains a world-renowned microbial biological resource centre of living fungi, yeasts and bacteria. It is also a centre of expertise for mycology (the study of fungi and moulds).

The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (Westerdijk Institute) is an Academy research institute that maintains a world-renowned microbial biological resource centre of living fungi, yeasts and bacteria. It is also a centre of expertise for mycology (the study of fungi and moulds).

Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute

The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) conducts research on population issues and makes demographic expertise available to researchers, policymakers and the public.

The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) conducts research on population issues and makes demographic expertise available to researchers, policymakers and the public. 

The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies investigates the history of world wars, large-scale violence and genocides, including their long-term impact on society. The institute also collects, stores and makes available archives and collections.

The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies investigates the history of world wars, large-scale violence and genocides, including their long-term impact on society. The institute also collects, stores and makes available archives and collections. 

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies

The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) conducts basic and strategic research on organisms, populations, ecological communities and ecosystems on land and in water.

The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) conducts basic and strategic research on organisms, populations, ecological communities and ecosystems on land and in water.

The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) 

The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience conducts basic and strategic research in the neurosciences, focusing in particular on the brain and the visual system.

The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience conducts basic and strategic research in the neurosciences, focusing in particular on the brain and the visual system.

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

The Meertens Institute studies and documents the Dutch language and Dutch culture.

The Meertens Institute studies and documents the Dutch language and Dutch culture.

Meertens Institute

The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) (1851) conducts research from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. The research focuses mainly on the continuities and discontinuities between the colonial period, contemporary history and contemporary developments. The programme also includes the impact of the colonial past on the post-colonial Netherlands.

The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) performs research in the humanities and social sciences focusing on Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.

The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)

The institute aims to make Dutch history and culture more inclusive. It also provides access to primary source material and text editions on which to base further analytical and interpretive research. In addition, the Huygens Institute takes the lead in developing innovative methods, tools and sustainable digital infrastructure.

The institute aims to make Dutch history and culture more inclusive. It also provides access to primary source material and text editions on which to base further analytical and interpretive research. In addition, the Huygens Institute takes the lead in developing innovative methods, tools and sustainable digital infrastructure.

Huygens Institute

The focus of research at the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research is developmental and stem cell biology. The institute has twenty-four interdisciplinary research groups that conduct basic research using healthy and sick cells, tissue and organisms.

The Hubrecht Institute collaborates with numerous local, national and international laboratories. It is partnered with Utrecht University Medical Centre, Utrecht University, Princess Máxima Centre for Paediatric Oncology, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Oncode Institute.

The Hubrecht Institute - KNAW performs world-leading research in the field of developmental biology and stem cells. The research groups conduct fundamental, multidisciplinary research on healthy and diseased cells, tissues and organisms.

Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research

The Academy institutes play a leading role in Dutch and international research. They serve as national centres of expertise, and manage and provide access to collections and/or research facilities, many of which are world-famous.

<a href="https://www.knaw.nl/en/about-institutes">Read more about the institutes</a>

Institutes

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.

Publications

With its historic architecture, the Trippenhuis is an exceptional venue for your event.The Trippenhuis was built between 1660 and 1662 as a residence for the brothers Louys and Hendrick Trip, dealers in copper, iron, and armaments. It has been the seat of the Academy since the early nineteenth century and for a time it also housed the Rijksmuseum, home of Rembrandt’s Night Watch and other famous works of art. When the Rijksmuseum moved to its new home, the Academy remained and gradually expanded into the adjacent canal-side mansions.

Venue hire

The Academy has approximately 600 members. Membership is awarded on the basis of scientific and scholarly achievement. Members are appointed for life. <a href="https://www.knaw.nl/en/about-knaw/members-academy">Read more.</a>Looking for members from the past? <a href="https://dwc.knaw.nl/en/biografie/pmknaw/">Please visit the historical membership list.</a>

Members

Om ongewenst gedrag aan wetenschappelijke instellingen te bestrijden is het nodig veel meer aan preventie te doen. De huidige aanpak richt zich vooral op klachtafhandeling, maar de sociale veiligheid aan universiteiten en onderzoeksinstituten verbetert pas echt door gedrag op de werkvloer structureel onderwerp van gesprek te maken.Dat vraagt om een andere cultuur die is verankerd in een nieuwe manier van leiding geven. De KNAW heeft op verzoek van de minister van OCW de gids Sociale veiligheid in de Nederlandse wetenschap - Van papier naar praktijk gemaakt met handreikingen en tips om de problemen met ongewenst gedrag te voorkomen of vroegtijdig bij te sturen. Hiermee wil de KNAW een proces in gang zetten waarmee de sociale veiligheid in de Nederlandse wetenschap wordt vergroot.

Om ongewenst gedrag aan wetenschappelijke instellingen te bestrijden is het nodig veel meer aan preventie te doen. De huidige aanpak richt zich vooral op klachtafhandeling, maar de sociale veiligheid aan universiteiten en onderzoeksinstituten verbetert pas echt door gedrag op de werkvloer structureel onderwerp van gesprek te maken. 

Sociale veiligheid in de Nederlandse wetenschap - Van papier naar praktijk

De Akademie brengt advies uit op tal van onderwerpen die de wetenschap betreffen. De invalshoeken voor die adviesonderwerpen zijn op hoofdlijnen geschetst in <a href="publicaties/staan-op-kennis-strategische-agenda-2021-2025" title="Staan op kennis">Staan op kennis</a>, de strategische agenda van de KNAW voor 2021-2025. Bekijk ook <a href="https://storage.knaw.nl/2024-03/Adviesfunctie-KNAW-Werkprogramma-per-maart-2024.pdf">het werkprogramma</a>.Voor de uitvoering van haar adviestaak heeft de KNAW <a href="/adviesraden-en-commissies">adviesraden en adviescommissies</a> ingesteld. Zij dragen adviesonderwerpen aan en spelen een rol bij de peer review – toetsing door vakgenoten – van de adviezen.

Publicaties

Ulbe Bosma en zijn groep bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) van de KNAW ontvangen een grote Europese subsidie van de European Research Council. Ze krijgen het geld voor het project The Global South in the Age of Early Industrial Capitalism: Commodity Frontiers and Social Transformations (1816-1870).

Ulbe Bosma en zijn groep bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) van de KNAW ontvangen een grote Europese subsidie. Ze krijgen het geld voor het project The Global South in the Age of Early Industrial Capitalism: Commodity Frontiers and Social Transformations (1816-1870).

Grote Europese beurs voor IISG

On this page, you can read more about diversity and inclusion at the Academy.

On this page, you can read more about diversity and inclusion at the Academy.

Diversity and inclusion

Het in augustus 2021 verschenen rapport van het IPCC getiteld <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/" target="_blank">The Physical Science Basis</a> demonstreert nog eens twee zaken: enerzijds de urgentie van de klimaatproblematiek en anderzijds de onmisbare rol van de wetenschap in het vaststellen en wegen van de feiten en het zoeken naar mogelijke oplossingen. De KNAW voelt medeverantwoordelijkheid voor en urgentie bij deze materie en wil op verschillende manieren en op verschillende niveaus een bijdrage leveren: als genootschap van excellente wetenschappers en hoeder en duider van de wetenschap, als institutenorganisatie en als in de eigen bedrijfsvoering.

Lees hoe de KNAW meedenkt over oplossingen voor de problemen rond klimaatverandering.

Klimaatverandering

The Society will give artists a place to share ideas with professionals in science and other artistic disciplines. They will focus on the role of the arts in society and the relationship between science and the arts. The Society is the only platform where individual artists can express their views.

Society of Arts

Drie van de KNAW-instituten doen onderzoek waarbij dieren worden ingezet. De KNAW heeft daarnaast diverse adviezen en publicaties over dierproeven uitgebracht.

Drie van de KNAW-instituten doen onderzoek waarbij dieren worden ingezet. De KNAW heeft daarnaast diverse adviezen en publicaties over dierproeven uitgebracht.

Dierproeven

Blijf op de hoogte van de activiteiten van de KNAW, de Akademie van Kunsten en De Jonge Akademie via onze nieuwsbrief. <a href="https://mailchi.mp/knaw/mailings" title="Aanmelden KNAW-nieuwsbrieven">Meld u hier aan</a>.

Nieuws

Hoe ziet je leven eruit als je wetenschapper wordt? Twaalf promovendi gaan in video’s en blogs verslag doen van hun dagelijks werk. Drie van deze Faces of Science stellen zich voor in onderstaande video's.

Hoe ziet je leven eruit als je wetenschapper wordt? Twaalf promovendi gaan in video’s en blogs verslag doen van hun dagelijks werk. Drie van deze Faces of Science stellen zich voor in onderstaande video's. 


Nieuwe Faces of Science: Gwendolyn Koops-Geuze, Esther Nieuwenhuizen & Amir Taha

Gwendolyn Koops-Geuze

Esther Nieuwenhuizen

Amir Taha

Over de Faces of Science

Faces of Science breidt uit: twaalf jonge wetenschappers gaan schrijven en vertellen over hun onderzoek