Dutch Research Agenda (NWA)
Funds Dutch strategic research collaborations and pilot projects linked to national opportunities and societal challenges.
The Dutch Research Agenda (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda, NWA) is a large-scale research programme funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and managed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Since its launch in 2018 it has built a portfolio of 579 projects structured around approximately 12,000 questions submitted by citizens, organised into 140 cluster questions and 25 sel…
Societal challenge research across 25 self-organizing research routes. Current open calls include South Holland economic transformation, Reducing drug harm, and NWA-ORC 2026; Citizen Science 2026 and Resilient Digital Ecosystems are closed.
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