Open Competition Domain Science – M 2025/2026
Open Competition Domain Science – M
Up to €800K
31/07/2026
Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Open Competition Domain Science – M 2025/2026 Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Advance fundamental scientific knowledge through challenging, innovative, curiosity-driven research lines.
• Strengthen individual and institutional research capacity and international collaboration, including multi- and interdisciplinary synergies.
• Deliver high scientific quality (weighted 75% in assessment) and demonstrate potential scientific or societal impact (25%).
• Foster responsible research practices, including the creation of a data management plan to ensure transparency, reproducibility and long-term accessibility of research data.
• Yield outputs (publications, datasets, prototypes) that contribute to NWO Domain Science priorities and may seed future research programmes or applications.
Scope Requirements
• Hold a tenured or tenure-track position (or a 1–2 year contract with an expected permanent follow-up) at an eligible Dutch research organization.
• Be full, associate or assistant professors (or equivalent).
• Submit only one ENW-M proposal (as main or co-applicant) per twelve-month period.
• Propose basic research questions firmly within NWO Domain Science (earth sciences, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, physics, mathematics) or clearly overlapping these domains.
• Choose the appropriate grant category and respect its budget and personnel configurations: ENW-M-1 (≤€400k, 1 position), ENW-M-1X (≤€800k incl. investments, 1 position), ENW-M-1-Weave (≤€400k, 1 position, international team), ENW-M-2 (≤€800k, 2 positions, 2 applicants).
• Prepare proposals in English, using the 2025/2026 forms in ISAAC.
• Upon award, develop a responsible Research Data Management plan before project start.
Special Conditions
• ENW-M-1-Weave proposals with a Flemish co-applicant must be submitted by 24 February 2026, 14:00 CET.
• In Weave applications, NWO shares personal data (names, affiliations, application titles, reviewer identities and affiliations, funding decisions and motivations) with partner agencies; applicants consent by submitting.
• Host institutions must acknowledge and accept NWO funding conditions.
• Budgets must combine the designated scientific positions with other allowed modules (e.g. consumables, travel, investments).
• Proposals undergo external peer review, rebuttal stage, cluster committee ranking and NWO Domain Science Board final decision.
Deadline:31/07/2026
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