Transition to New NWO takes the next step
With the new 'Integral Main Design' NWO has come a step closer to a more coherent and effective organisation. The 'Integral Main Design' outlines how the governance, operational management, new domains and the new institutes organisation will be set up. The new governance of NWO will become effective on 1 January 2017.
The plan is an elaboration of the previous Breimer plan to which workgroups of NWO employees and other stakeholders have contributed ideas. It has now been submitted to the works councils of the NWO umbrella organisation for their approval. Over the next few months the Integral Main Design will be elaborated in greater detail.
- Link to the 'Integral Main Design' on the NWO website (in Dutch)
- Download the 'Breimer Plan' on the NWO website
Continuity for researchers safeguarded
For all of the changes that are being prepared, the continuity of NWO activities is being safeguarded and special attention will be paid to the preparation of calls and programmes for 2017, the elaboration of NWO funding instruments such as the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, the instruments for public-private partnerships (PPP), and the realisation of specific instruments for the domains Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES).
About New NWO
In the Vision on Science (2014) of the Dutch government and in the new strategy of NWO (2015) it was announced that the NWO organisation would undergo a transition. The aim of the new organisation is to work more across disciplinary boundaries and to strengthen the organising capacity of NWO. The transition also aims to strengthen NWO's strategic position, to increase its decision-taking and organisational capacity, to enable resources to be deployed more effectively, to work more from a single coherent programme, and to enable more NWO-wide and interdisciplinary collaboration.
In April 2015 a workgroup under the leadership of Douwe Breimer outlined the contours of the new organisation and in October 2015 the Action Plan for the transition to a new NWO was published.
Further information about the NWO transition can be found on the transition page of the FOM website.
Source: NWO