Eleven research consortia receive funding for impactful research
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that eleven consortia will receive funding in the NWA-ORC round of 2025. This means that these research groups will receive money to carry out their projects. The programme is part of the National Research Agenda (NWA).
The NWA-ORC round is intended for research that is not only scientifically important, but can also have a positive effect on society. Consortia are collaborations between different parties, such as universities, knowledge institutions and, in some cases, organisations from the business sector or the public sector. By working together, they can tackle research questions that a single organisation would find difficult to solve alone.
NWO states that the selected consortia were chosen after an assessment procedure. This considered the quality of the research and its potential societal impact. The precise topics of the projects and the amount of funding per consortium are not fully specified in the available information.
For the Netherlands, this news is mainly relevant because it shows how research is being encouraged that is meant to contribute to societal challenges. In the coming years, it will become clear what results the consortia achieve and how these are used in practice.
Sources: NWO
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