{"id":171560,"date":"2024-09-16T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=171560"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:28","slug":"coalition-programme-also-less-money-for-dutch-research-council-and-open-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/09\/16\/coalition-programme-also-less-money-for-dutch-research-council-and-open-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition programme: also less money for Dutch Research Council and open science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slow-progress penalty, fewer international students, less science… The cabinet is still planning to make cuts in higher education and research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and open science will also have to tighten their belts.<\/p>\n

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Minister of Education Eppo Bruins (left) got critised heavily at the Opening of the Academic in Rotterdam.<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

The cabinet\u2019s \u2018coalition programme<\/a>\u2019 has been published. The minister and state secretary of Education, Culture and Science have to make drastic cuts, they acknowledge in their own press release. \u201cThat is painful and makes it necessary to make sharp choices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cutbacks of almost a billion euros affecting students, teachers and researchers had already been announced<\/a> in the outline agreement concluded by coalition parties PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB.<\/p>\n

Sector plans left alone<\/h2>

One change was leaked earlier this week. The ministry has decided to leave the national sector plans of the universities alone after all. These are tied to 1,200 jobs and the universities were threatening to take the matter to court.<\/p>\n

Instead<\/a>, the cabinet is cutting the starter and incentive grants for scientists, which were intended to lighten the workload. Umbrella organisation Universities of the Netherlands scornfully refers to this as merely shifting the problem.<\/p>\n\n\t

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