Newsletter for NWO-I employees
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Focusing on a new publication system
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Open Access is here to stay but needs to change
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In the October edition of Inside NWO-I, we described how the publication landscape has changed following the transition to Open Access (OA) publishing. Publishers are charging researchers increasingly higher article processing charges (APCs) and there is an explosive growth in a wide range of journals where profit is the main motive. So, how should researchers make their choices when they want to publish OA? Many institutions, including NWO-I, are concerned about the rising costs. The NWO-I Open Access Focus Group calls for a different publication system.
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AMOLF anniversary: heading for even more magical times
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Much applause during the networking event for the pitches by the four AMOLF PhD students (left to right) Sarah Gillespie, Evan Usher, Masha Ogienko and Daphne Antony, with day chair Yvonne Smit on the left. Credits: Petra Klerkx
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AMOLF is 75 years old and is celebrating this special year with a series of publications and meetings. The NWO Institute looks back at the highlights from the past but, above all, looks to the future. Or as director Huib Bakker puts it, paraphrasing the science fiction television series Star Trek Voyager: “We focus on to go boldly where no one has gone before.” During the anniversary activities, employees, alumni and business relations confirmed AMOLF’s formula for success: constantly innovating and working with many different partners. Bruno Ehrler, anniversary project leader and group leader Hybrid Solar Cells, tells us about the three events.
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Triple portrait: NWO-I health and safety coordinators at work
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Interview with Marchel Gerbers (ASTRON), Chara Karafantis (DIFFER) and Bram van der Gaag (Nikhef, AMOLF and ARCNL)
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All NWO Institutes are unique and the same is true of the colleagues who work there. Sometimes they have the same position. Although their work might be the same, their stories are always different. So, who are these colleagues? In this section, we interview three of them each time. On this occasion we meet health and safety coordinators Marchel Gerbers (ASTRON), Chara Karafantis (DIFFER) and Bram van der Gaag (Nikhef, AMOLF and ARCNL). They contribute to their colleagues being able to work in a safe and pleasant manner.
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Marchel Gerbers, Chara Karafantis and Bram van der Gaag
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Knowledge security scrutinised during meeting ‘Safeguarding academic values’
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Ella Bosch opened the conference.
Credits background image: Shutterstock.com
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The NWO Institutes do world-class research, and that generates data and knowledge of considerable value. But in the context of geopolitics, this value makes both research and researchers vulnerable to parties with ulterior motives. What exactly is that risk? And how does NWO-I deal with it? These questions were the focus on Tuesday, 15 October 2024, during the NWO-I-wide meeting ‘Safeguarding academic values: maintaining independent research in a changing world’ held at the Amsterdam Science Park. Based on their backgrounds, the speakers talked about the different forms that influencing can take. Would you recognise those?
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Benefits of a collective insurance at OHRA Zorgverzekering
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Until 31 December, you are free to change your health insurance, for example alter your coverage, add your family to your policy or switch to a different health insurance. As an NWO-I employee, you can profit from various benefits under the collective health insurance of OHRA, such as a 10% discount on supplementary health insurance packages. On the "NWO-I" part of the OHRA website (in Dutch only) you can read more about this health insurance and which benefits apply to you. There you can calculate your premium, including discount, and take out the health insurance immediately. Good to know: OHRA will cancel your current health insurance for you.
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Highlight NIOZ: research vessel Anna Weber-van Bosse launched
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Construction at halfway mark
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At the start of November, research vessel (RV) Anna Weber-van Bosse was launched in Spain. In a year’s time, this new flagship of the Dutch research fleet will be ready for use. For Gert-Jan Reichart, head of the NIOZ Ocean Systems Research department, the launching of the Anna Weber-van Bosse is an important milestone: the construction of the ship is now roughly at the halfway mark. During the first year, the 80 metre-long hull was built in the hall to a height of roughly eight storeys. The completed ship will be even higher still, but as it would then no longer fit in the shipyard’s assembly hall, the construction is being completed outside. The coming period will include installation of the bridge and laboratories.
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News from the works councils
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In the closing weeks of 2024, the works councils will discuss various subjects with both the Executive Board representative and internally in the NWO Central Works Council (COR NWO) and the NWO-I Group Works Council (GOR NWO-I). One of the subjects that the COR NWO will discuss is the request for advice concerning the joint venture HFML-FELIX. After the discussion, COR NWO will issue its advice about establishing HFML-FELIX as an NWO Institute.
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As an NWO-I employee, you receive the personnel newsletter Inside NWO-I. The newsletter publishes important news and announcements for you as an employee. Do you disagree with NWO-I using your email address to send Inside NWO-I, and would you like to stop receiving the newsletter? Then please let us know this by sending an email to info@nwo-i.nl.
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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.
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