The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is the forum, the voice and the conscience of science in the Netherlands. Its institutes lead the way here and abroad with their research and collections. Its activities are based on the conviction that knowledge and creativity are the most important ingredients for well-being and prosperity.
The Academy is responsible for ten national research institutes and two institutes that provide research infrastructure. The institutes are active in the humanities, the social sciences and the life sciences. The Academy institutes play a leading role in Dutch and international research. They serve as national centres of expertise and manage and provide access to collections and/or research facilities, many of which are world-famous.
- IISH: International Institute of Social History
- NIAS: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services
- Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
- NIDI: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
- NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- NIOO: Netherlands Institute of Ecology
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
- Meertens Institute
- KITLV: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
- Huygens Institute
- Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research