Scientific Meetings and Consultations

Facilitate and strengthen national and international academic networks and collaboration across mono-, inter- and transdisciplinary boundaries in the natural and physical sciences.
Promote knowledge building and exchange of research and ideas.
Support the formation and development of new (cross-domain) research teams and consortia.
Build and sustain active research communities through low-threshold funding of scientific meetings and consultations.

Applicants must hold a paid position (at least until the meeting date) as a full, associate or assistant professor; researcher with a comparable position; postdoc; or PhD candidate at one of the following Dutch institutions:
• Universities in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• University medical centres
• Institutes affiliated to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) or NWO
• Netherlands Cancer Institute
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen)
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Advanced Research Centre for NanoLithography (ARCNL)
• Princess Máxima Center
Research questions must be within or overlap with earth sciences, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, physics or mathematics.
Events can be proposed up to one year before the first meeting day. Applications are submitted continuously via the ISAAC system, with deadlines tied to proposed meeting dates (approximately two months prior).