Simplified NWO funding instruments in 2018

NWO will implement a simplified set of funding instruments in all its domains next year. As of August 1, researchers can submit proposals for the first calls published in accordance with this new model. The NWO Executive Board has the intention to create a higher degree of clarity in the research funding and a better connection between the domains for multidisciplinary research proposals.

The proposed changes emerge from the objectives for a modernised NWO in which it is easier to work across disciplinary boundaries. For the time being, the new funding instruments should cover four categories, namely talent, open project funding, open programme funding, and strategic funding. Each category will contain a limited number of funding instruments and will have a modular structure (like Veni, Vidi and Vici in the category talent). The details of the new system will be further elaborated in the coming months.

NWO and ZonMw will announce the changes to the current instruments at least six months before these are effected on their websites.