Research into Urban Challenges Bilateral and Multilateral Examples NWO Dragon Star – JPI Urban Europe meeting, October 28, 2015 Beijing Renee van Kessel-Hagesteijn

NWO’s Role in Research Funding Ministry of Education, Culture and Science Ministry of Economic Affairs other ministries (e.g., Health, Foreign Affairs, Infrastructure & Environment) private sector and public organisations direct government funding indirect government funding Universities (incl. medical centres) Research institutes Public private partnerships International partnerships

Global players NWO international arena

China Programmes NWO NSFC-NWO Joint Research Projects 2010 – 2018 and beyond (NSFC, NWO) Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) 2009 – 2015 (MoST, MoE, CAS, CASS,NWO) Science-Industry Co-operation 2012 – present (MoST, NWO) CAS-NWO Joint Research Projects 2015 – 2018 and beyond (CAS, NWO)

Programmes – Main Characteristics JSTP, NSFC-NWO and CAS-NWO aim at stimulating sustainable research collaboration by funding Joint Research Projects:  Multi-annual research funding  Projects demonstrating complementary expertise between Sino- Dutch research teams Thematic Calls for Proposals are published annually, featuring different thematic priorities each year

Sino-Dutch Research Programmes – Themes (I) NSFC-NWO Joint Research Projects:  2010: Water Ways, Harbours, Estuaries and Coastal Engineering  2011: Plant Developmental Biology  2012: Operations Research in Urban Transport  2014: Green Economy / Understanding Population Change NSFC-NWO together with ANR-DFG-RCUK  2015: Advanced Materials  2016 and onwards: New themes Water Catalysis Bio-medicine Urban Challenges

Sino-Dutch Research Programmes – Themes (II) JSTP Joint Research Projects:  2009: Integrated Water Management  2010: Energy – Biomass  2011: Health – Medical Devices for an Ageing Society  2012: Agriculture & Food: How to Feed the World?  2014: Smart Energy in Smart Cities  2015: Creative Industries CAS-NWO Joint Research Projects:  2015: Stem Cell Research  2016 and onwards: New themes Brain Research Radio-astronomy

Example of bilateral programme NSFC- NWO on Operations Research joint research proposals selected (out of 17), 4 m€ Topics: Traffic Congestion Control Modelling Success, request for second phase of programme on same theme

Example of multilateral programme ‘Green economy and Understanding Population change’ 9 million Euro’s, five agencies 8 projects selected out of 46 eligible applications Based on scoping workshops One lead agency (ESRC), two point of submission (ESRC and NSFC) Technical support group of all agencies –Eligibility –Peer reviews Panel meeting (two steps) Several lessons learnt Ambition towards next round, next call

Example of Opportunity for future Thematic and interdisciplinary cooperation NWO Resilient Society Healthy Living and Quality of Life Circular Economy Complexity Big Data Horizon 2020 Health Food Energy Transport –Climate and Resources Innovative, Inclusive and Reflective Society Security Sustainable Urban Regions of the Future Flagship

National programme Smart Urban Regions of the Future - Cooperation between NWO, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and the largest 31 cities in the Netherlands (Platform31) - Scope:

NWO participates in…. JPI Urban Europe JPI Climate JPI Water ERANET NORFACE Belmont Forum activities Possibilities for cooperation with Chinese counterparts

For instance JPI Urban Europe New joint call ‘Urban Nexus’ or ‘Urban Access’ (the 4 th and 5 th call for JPI UE) urban sustainable consumption and production (the food-energy-water nexus) the accessibility of infrastructure, services and amenities, considering sustainable mobility systems, inclusive welfare, peoples needs and the dynamics of cross-city/district cooperation EU CoFund in 2016 (2018/19?) NWO has funds available for participation Funding organisation in China… Criteria & Procedure Lessons learnt from existing collaborations….

Challenges Streamlining agenda’s: –Framework required Lessons learnt from existing collaborations –Call management – lead/coordination agency –Criteria assessment – finding middle ground –Sustainability relationships partners - trust

multilateral research programmes? broadening co-operation in NSFC-NWO, JSTP and CAS- NWO joint research projects cooperation between Chinese and Dutch scientists and partners Future EU China