Four consortia receive 65 million euro for long-term transdisciplinary research

This funding is part of the KIC programme line Strategy and offers researchers, businesses and civil society organisations the opportunity to collaborate on large-scale, long-term research projects. The selected projects will receive 65 million euros from NWO. Corporations and other organisations will contribute an additional 182 million euros.

Within this research programme, consortia were free to propose their own research topics, provided they aligned with one or more of the Dutch government’s Knowledge and Innovation Agendas. As a result, the four awarded projects are very diverse. From the use of systems inspired by the efficiency of the human brain for ultra-fast, energy-efficient data processing and the effective deployment of new AI tools for the Dutch healthcare sector, to the development of a national centre for the robotisation of physical labour. These ten-year projects have the potential to make significant strides in their research fields and initiate new developments that will ultimately address urgent societal challenges.

Through the KIC long-term programmes, NWO is providing a powerful boost to various fields of research, thereby stimulating economic and societal innovation across multiple sectors.