6 projects receive funding from the National Growth Fund program ‘NXTGEN Hightech’. Researchers affiliated with various universities and colleges collaborate in these projects. They will conduct research into innovative machine design in the semiconductor industry and improving electron microscopes.
In total, the consortia will receive more than 11 million euros in subsidies. The co-financiers of the projects will also provide an additional 5 million euros in financing. These allocations were made in the context of the first call for proposals of NXTGEN Hightech, ‘Future-proof high-tech equipment’. This call for proposals specifically requested research proposals that would maintain and strengthen the current strength of the Netherlands in the field of high-tech equipment.
About the National Growth Fund programme NXTGEN Hightech
This call for proposals is part of the National Growth Fund programme NXTGEN Hightech. This programme is developing a new generation of high-tech equipment in six essential domains. In doing so, the programme makes a significant contribution to structural and sustainable economic growth in the Netherlands and offers solutions for the major social challenges in the field of energy transition, health, safety and nutrition.