NWO Organisation in Outline

Governing Board and General Management

• Governing Board
• General Management

Corporate Departments

• Policy Development and Support
• Information and Communication
• Personnel and Organisation
• Finance and Control
• IT Department
• Facilities Management
• Application Management

NWO's eight Divisions for Sciences are stipulated by law. They grant subsidies judiciously to research projects.

• Earth and Life Sciences (ALW)
• Chemical Sciences (CW)
• Physical Sciences (EW)
• Humanities (GW)
• Social Sciences (MaGW)
• Medical Sciences (MW), in 2001 merged with ZorgOnderzoek Nederland to form ZonMw.
• Physics (N), implementation by FOM
• Technical Sciences (TW), implementation by Technology Foundation STW

Foundations

WOTRO grants subsidies to research for the benefit of developing countries.

• Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) (until 1 January 2012)
• WOTRO Science for Global Development
• Foundation for Fundamental Reseach on Matter (FOM)

NWO hasresearch institutes across the country. Their findings are regularly lauded internationally.

• ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
• Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
• Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF)
• FOM Institute for Fundamental Energy Research DIFFER
• National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)
• Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
• NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
• SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
• DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO)

Temporary
Task Forces

The temporary task forces implement spearheads of (ministerial) policy with industry experts.

• Advanced Chemical Technologies for Sustainability (ACTS) (as from 1 January 2012 added to Chemical Sciences)
• Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)
• National ICT Research and Innovation Authority (ICTRegie) (until 1 January 2011)
• National Initiative Brain & Cognition

Secretariats

NWO in The Hague houses independent secretariats - EDCTP, SANPAD and BWM - to which it offers staffing and administrative services.

• European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
• South Africa Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD)
• Biosciences and Society Foundation (BWM)