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                                                                           TEKNOWLOGY

                                                                           TEKNOWLOGY is the Dutch festival
                                                                           where technology, science, innova-
                                                                           tion and valorisation meet. At
                                                                               TEKNOWLOGY visitors are
                                                                               shown the technical innova-
                                              IMPLEMENTATION                   tions of the future and how
                                                                               Dutch science is prepared
                                                                               for these. The next edition
                                              GUIDELINES FOR PLAN S            will be held both live on
                                                                               location and online from
                                              Plan S – an initiative of European   16 - 20 November 2020.
                                              research funders to accelerate    Admission is free, and the
                                              the transition to open access –    festival is held in English.
                                              will apply to all new NWO calls
                                              published as of 1 January 2021.    More information:
                                              To give researchers sufficient time   teknowlogy.nl
                                              to prepare, NWO has announced
         NWO AND                              how it will implement the guide-
                                              lines for Plan S in its grant rules.

         CORONA                               Publications resulting from calls
                                              put out after 1 January 2021 must
         NWO has announced guidelines         be available immediately (with no
         that it will apply in the event of   embargo) with an open copyright
         changes to ongoing NWO research      (CC BY) licence in open access
         that is delayed as a result of the   according to one of the following
         corona crisis. There are four start-  routes:
         ing points for these guidelines:
                                              • Publication in an open access
         • Extension of the starting date      journal or platform registered
         • A four month delay for all          in DOAJ
           reporting deadlines for ongoing    • Publication in a subscription
           research                            journal and simultaneous
         • Adjustments within the              archiving of at least the author
           framework and budget of             version in a registered open        NEW MEMBER
           ongoing research                    access repository
         • Any problems with the delivery     • Publication in a journal under
           of co-funding are to be reported    a VSNU/UKB transformative           NWO EXECUTIVE BOARD
           to NWO immediately                  agreement or in a transformative
                                               journal approved by cOAlition S.    The Minister of Education, Culture
         The pausing and restarting of the                                         and Science has appointed Jan de
         operational process has caused       More information: nwo.nl/en/         Boer as a member of the Executive
         many shifts in the timetables        policies/open+science/plan+s         Board of the Dutch Research Coun-
         of funding instruments. On its                                            cil (NWO). He also became the new
         website, NWO has created an                                               chair of NWO’s Science domain.
         overview of these changes in the
         form of an integral call planning in                                      Jan de Boer is professor of
         which the upcoming deadlines for                                          theoretical physics at the University
         pre-proposals and full proposals                                          of Amsterdam. He has been
         until the end of June 2021 are                                            involved in various broad research
         listed. More detailed information                                         initiatives such as GRAPPA, Delta
         about instruments can be found                                            ITP and DIEP. Jan de Boer also
         on the relevant grant pages.                                              helped to set up NWO’s Science
                                                                                   domain and became a member
         More information: nwo.nl/corona                                           of this domain’s board after
                                                                                   the transition.

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