"BRIN is the only government research institution in Indonesia. BRIN is the funding agency as well as the implementing agency," BRIN Head Laksana Tri Handoko said in a statement accessed by ANTARA here on Monday.
Handoko and his staff recently visited the Dutch Research Council (NWO), which is one of the largest research funding agencies in the Netherlands and is located in Utrecht.
He invited the NWO to collaborate on a research funding scheme, which would help widen opportunities for researchers who have not received funding and provide additional funds to those who have received funding to develop their research.
The NWO invests nearly 1 billion euros every year. It selects and also funds research proposals based on the recommendations of scientists and other experts from the Netherlands and other countries.
NWO executive board member Margot Weijnen said that the council has funded more than 7,200 research projects at universities and knowledge institutions both within and outside the Netherlands.
The NWO encourages national and international cooperation, invests in large research facilities, facilitates the utilization of knowledge, and manages research institutes.
After visiting NWO, the BRIN head and his staff visited a laboratory equipment industry, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (Thermo Fisher), in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Thermo Fisher is a provider of medical equipment, analytical instruments, reagents and consumables, software, as well as services for complex analytical purposes at research, diagnostics, and clinical laboratories.
Handoko invited researchers at Thermo Fisher to collaborate on research with BRIN.
He also said that the infrastructure at BRIN could be used for joint research.
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