Six application-oriented projects can start with funding from the Open Technology Programme from the NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES). NWO is supporting these application-oriented projects with more than 5.5 million euros. Industry partners and other organisations are contributing another amount of over 885.880 euros.
The granted projects include topics such as:
Expanding the electron microscope toolbox with novel microwave technology, enabling ultrashort exposure times to study extremely fast processes occurring in materials, while maintaining the state-of-the-art precision of imaging and spectroscopy (Project: Microwave-cavity-based ultrafast electron microscopy and spectroscopy).
Development of time-scale-space adaptive meshfree method for urban wind simulation utilizing Dutch Airborne Laser Scanning open data (Project: POINT-TWINS: Point clOud-based dynamIc coNTinuous-scale adapTive urban WINd Simulat).
Using flower pigmentation patterns as a model system to uncover the processes and genes involved in establishing and maintaining post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) differently between neighbouring cells, enabling the application of such insights in crop breeding programs (Project: Precision Patterns in Petal Pigmentation: Genetic, sRNA, and Epigenetic Landscapes Shaping Flower Pigmentation Patterns).
Open Technology programme
The Open Technology Programme provides funding for application-oriented technical-scientific research that is free and unrestricted and is not hindered by disciplinary boundaries. The programme offers companies and other organisations an accessible way to participate in scientific research that is intended to lead to societal and/or scientific impact.
The six research projects
You can read about all six research projects on the NWO website: