Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Open calls

Closing soonest first, then calls with no fixed deadline. Updated November 4, 2026.

• Novel ecosystems: biodiversity, socio-ecological consequences and future trajectories (BiodivFuture)
  Deadline: November 10, 2026 · Up to €400,000
• Partnership Water4All - Sustainable Water Management
  Deadline: November 10, 2026 · Up to €400,000
• Comenius Teaching Fellows ho 2027
  Deadline: November 12, 2026 · Not specified
• Financing Professional Doctorate-candidates 2026
  Deadline: November 12, 2026 · Not specified
• Thematic Digital Competence Centres 2026
  Deadline: November 12, 2026 · €50,000 – €400,000
• Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership: Fourth Joint Transnational Co-funded Call
  Deadline: November 16, 2026 · Up to €400,000
• Driving Urban Transitions Call 2026​
  Deadline: November 17, 2026 · Up to €400,000
• KIC - Innovative early diagnostics of Digestive Diseases
  Deadline: November 17, 2026 · €530,000 – €679,000
• SSH Open Competition Expand 2026
  Deadline: November 17, 2026 · Not specified
• Tulip Fund
  Deadline: November 17, 2026 · Up to €1,000,000
• Perspectief round 2026-2027
  Deadline: November 24, 2026 · Not specified
• FAIR Research Outputs
  Deadline: December 1, 2026 · Not specified
• Rubicon 2026-3
  Deadline: December 1, 2026 · Not specified
• Mobility and Development Programme
  Deadline: December 3, 2026 · Not specified
• Scientific Meetings and Consultations 2026
  Deadline: December 7, 2026 · Up to €15,000
• Open Science Meetings
  Deadline: December 10, 2026 · Not specified
• Take-off phase 1 – Feasibility studies WO 2026
  Deadline: December 10, 2026 · Up to €60,000
• Venture Challenge Spring 2027
  Deadline: December 10, 2026 · Not specified
• Citizen Science Hubs 2026
  Deadline: January 8, 2027 · Not specified
• Doctoral grant for teachers 2027-I
  Deadline: January 12, 2027 · Not specified
• SSH Open Competition Explore 2027 – round 1
  Deadline: January 19, 2027 · Up to €50,000
• KIC Societal Earning Capacity: Connection, Synthesis and Knowledge Utilisation
  Deadline: January 21, 2027 · €55,555 – €111,111
• Raw Materials Partnership JTC 2026
  Deadline: February 15, 2027 · Up to €400,000
• Antarctic research and Antarctica InSync
  Deadline: February 16, 2027 · €250,000 – €450,000
• PhDs in the Humanities 2027
  Deadline: February 16, 2027 · Not specified
• Big Chemistry 2026
  Deadline: February 23, 2027 · Up to €400,000
• Clean Energy Transition Partnership Joint Call 2026
  Deadline: March 11, 2027 · Up to €400,000
• Gravitation 2027 - Frontier research for consortia
  Deadline: March 30, 2027 · €10,000,000 – €22,750,000
• Reducing drug harm: towards effective societal interventions
  Deadline: March 30, 2027 · Up to €4,270,951
• System Perspective on Materials for Strategic Autonomy in the Energy Transition
  Deadline: April 13, 2027 · Not specified
• Open Competition Domain Science – M 2026/2027
  Deadline: July 31, 2027 · Up to €400,000
• Impact Explorer 2026
  Deadline: October 5, 2027 · Up to €35,000
• Computing Time on National Computing Facilities
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• Open Access Books
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• Weave with NWO as partner agency 2026/2027
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified