NWO-I

Institutes Organisation of NWO

Organisation and governance

Our organisation comprises ten national research institutes and a support office.

The national research institutes of KNAW and NWO

Science is of great value to society and continues to amaze and inspire us. Scientific independent research helps us to better understand the world around us and brings technologies and insights beyond our imagination.

Strategic mission NWO-I

The ten national research institutes of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) operate from the concept of how science can change the future. They perform their resesarch together with scientists at Dutch universities and institutes and in many large-scale international collaborations.

WSRT-EVN

A powerful radio telescope at Westerbork and part of the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EVN).

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Radio telescopes with a person in the foreground

SKAO

De Square Kilometre Array Observatory will be the most powerful radio telescope in the world.

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Aerial photo of radiotelescopes in South Africa

LOFAR

The Low Frequency Array is currently the largest radio telescope in the world that operates on the lowest frequencies that can be observed from Earth.

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KM3NeT: neutrino detector at sea

This large neutrino detector, designed to capture passing 'ghost particles', is currently under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

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A detector sphere from the KM3NeT measuring instrument