Basic data
On this webpage you can find the basic data of NWO-I.
Annual budget
As of 31 December 2020 the annual budget of NWO-I is 117 million euros for exploitation and investments; basic and other income from grants from NWO, the European Union and the Dutch government as well as from partnerships with universities and industry.
How many people work at NWO-I?
At the end of 2020, 1,703 FTE (1,834 persons) were employed by NWO-I, of which
- 564 FTE (608 persons) scientific staff;
- 431 FTE (435 persons) researchers in training;
- 708 FTE (781 persons) technicians and other staff.
Collectively, the researchers at the institutes produced a total of 77 dissertations, 1,534 scientific (refereed) publications, 1175 other publications and 6 patents in 2020. In addition, there were approximately 75 promotions of PhD students at a university working group.
The employees are divided in these organisation units:
| NWO Institute AMOLF | 176 |
| NWO Institute ARCNL | 50 |
| NWO Institute ASTRON | 193 |
| NWO Institute CWI | 227 |
| NWO Institute DIFFER | 126 |
| NWO Institute Nikhef | 237 |
| NWO Institute NIOZ | 318 |
| NWO Institute NSCR | 60 |
| NWO Institute SRON | 209 |
| NWO-I office | 50 |
| BUW (Administrative Unit for Research Groups at Universities) | 153 |
| DUBBLE* | 2 |
| JIVE** | 23 |
| Total | 1824 |
* DUBBLE In 2019, NWO decided to not continue funding DUBBLE - the Dutch-Belgian beamline at the ESRF synchrotron in Grenoble - after 2021.
** JIVE is part of NWO Institute ASTRON and Jive implements the core data processing and user services that turn the network of distributed telescopes into a single observatory to study the radio sky at the highest possible resolution.