Administrative Unit for Research Groups at Universities (BUW) disbanded per 1 October 2024
On 1 October 2024, the Administrative Unit for Research Groups at Universities (in Dutch called BUW: Beheerseenheid Universitaire Werkgroepen) will be dissolved. The BUW was a business unit of NWO-I and consisted of university working groups where physics research took place at Dutch universities and knowledge institutions. Originally, the BUW originated from the FOM Foundation, which was transformed into NWO-I with other NWO divisions on 1 January 2017.
Each BUW workgroup was led by a workgroup leader BUW who at the time had received funding from the FOM Foundation to conduct physics research. The researchers (PhDs, postdocs and technicians) working within the projects and working groups of these workgroup leaders BUW were therefore employed by NWO-I. Next month, the very last researcher from BUW will leave service and all projects and workgroups will be completed. With that, the BUW component will cease to exist.
Brief review of BUW
In the May 2022 edition the personnel newsletter Inside NWO-I, we looked back at BUW, which by then was already becoming a shrinking business unit. In this article, Peter Spijker (NWO-I office), Femke Bangma (BUW PhD student HFML-FELIX), Annette Bor (NWO-I office) and Detlef Lohse (BUW workgroup leader) talk about this declining business unit of NWO-I.
Questions
Are you a former BUW employee or workgroup leader BUW, and do you have any questions? If so, please contact Annette Bor of the P&O department.