Researchers with a promising idea or an innovative and high-risk initiative can submit new applications in 2025 within the new call of the Open Competition Science – XS, round 2025.
The proposed research must fall within the NWO Domain Science disciplines, it is ground-breaking and it is not clear in advance whether the intended objective will be achieved. What matters is that every result advances science, both positively and negatively. The NWO Open Competition – XS subsidies are a maximum of € 50,000 per application, with a budget of € 2,400,000 per package.
After the NWO Open Competition Domain Science – XS project, the researcher can use the results obtained to further shape the research line. This can be done, for example, by submitting an application within the other funding forms of the Open Competition Domain Science (Open Competition-M and Open Competition-XL) or outside.
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