Newsletter for NWO-I employees
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New in the collective labour agreement: employees can swap festive days
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With effect from 2024, an additional regulation in the collective labour agreement now makes it possible for the first time to swap the Christian public holidays of Easter Monday, Ascension Day and the Monday after Pentecost for another holiday. Colleagues from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds work at the NWO Institutes and the NWO-I office. We believe it is important to recognise and respect those differences and provide space.
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A look at the Industrial Liaison Officer (ILO) network
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Importance of ILO for contact between Big Science and high-tech industry
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Gerard Cornet and Jan Visser
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Big Science is about groundbreaking fundamental research realised in large international partnerships. The NWO Institutes Nikhef, ASTRON, SRON, and DIFFER carry out Big Science: their research connects them with European Big Science organisations such as CERN, ESA, ESRF, and ITER. These Big Science organisations cannot exist without the high-tech industry because they need a lot of high-performance products for their setups and laboratories. Nikhef, ASTRON, SRON and DIFFER each have their own industrial liaison officer (ILO) to support the relationship between science (institutes and Big Science organisations) and industry. Together, the ILOs make up the NWO-I ILO network. Gerard Cornet (SRON) and Jan Visser (Nikhef) tell us more about the ILO network and are keen to underline its importance.
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Diversity & Inclusion at NWO-I: an update
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DIFFER, ASTRON and NIOZ about their local D&I initiatives
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At the beginning of 2023, project leader Judith Kreukels started to roll out the NWO-I Implementation Plan Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) for the personnel policy. Since then, various activities have taken place, such as a lecture about neurodiversity and a network event around International Women’s Day. In addition, P&O and communication advisors from NWO-I have received training, and the Employee Resource Group (ERG) LGBTIQA+ has been further developed. Besides which, each institute now also engages with D&I via the agenda of the local D&I teams. Judith and her colleagues David van Walderveen (DIFFER), Harrianne ter Meer (ASTRON), Harmen Buijst (ASTRON) and Tara Mahendrarajah (NIOZ) tell us about the progress each of them has made with D&I.
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Nikhef launches Expostrip and SRON opens exhibition in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
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NWO Institutes have science capture the imagination
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Nikhef Expostrip (Credits: Nikhef/Marco Kraan) and SRON exhibition in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave (credits: Fred Ernst).
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The institutes Nikhef and SRON make their science capture the imagination. On 29 February, Nikhef opened an Expostrip in the central hall of their recently renovated building at the Amsterdam Science Park: an exhibition of components from their own experiments. And on 21 March, SRON opened a public exhibition about black holes at the Dutch history of science museum, Rijkmuseum Boerhaave, in Leiden.
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Energetic NWO meeting at DIFFER
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Why would anyone wish to build a star on Earth? Colleagues from NWO-D and NWO-I witnessed how groundbreaking research contributes to this green future during the NWO-wide internal meeting Connect@DIFFER held on 18 April in Eindhoven. The well-filled programme included a presentation from researcher Matthijs van Berkel, who works on holistic control systems. And also an extensive lab tour past the Ion Beam Facility, Magnum-PSI and Upgraded Pilot PSI, various chemistry labs and the workshop. Marcel Levi (president NWO) and Marco de Baar (director DIFFER) kicked off the meeting.
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Beata Tyburska-Pueschel, project leader of the Ion Beam facility at DIFFER, tells about the Upgraded Pilot PSI (UPP).
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Highlight SRON: first images released from the PACE climate satellite
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World map in polarized light. Credts: SRON
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NASA’s PACE climate satellite, with the Dutch instrument SPEXone on board, has achieved the milestone of First Light: the first time that a new instrument makes a scientific recording. With that, the world now has access to satellite images that distinguish types and sizes of aerosols. SPEXone also measures the degree to which aerosols absorb and reflect sunlight. That will enable scientists to reduce uncertainties in climate models. SPEXone was built by NWO Institute SRON and Airbus Netherlands B.V., with the support of TNO. PACE was launched on 8 February from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, is an independent foundation belonging to NWO. The following nine institutes are part of NWO-I: AMOLF, ARCNL, ASTRON, CWI, DIFFER, Nikhef, NIOZ, NSCR and SRON. The workgroups in which physics research takes place at Dutch universities and knowledge institutes are also part of NWO-I.
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