At the end of 2015 ZonMw and NWO Earth and Life Sciences made funds available for the third call 'Enabling Technology Hotels'. Currently 28 projects are granted of which 10 from Top Sector Life Sciences & Health. These project will get access to DTL Technology Hotels.

In total, ZonMw has received 54 grant applications, of which 28 projects (52%) have been awarded. Of these 28 projects, 10 from the Top Sector LSH, 10 from the Top Sector Horticulture and Starting Materials, and 8 from the Top Sector Agri & Food. Of these 28 projects, 9 get access to genomics infrastructure facilities and expertise, 5 projects to metabolomics, 3 projects to bioimaging and phenotyping, 2 projects to proteomics and structural biology and 9 projects to bioinformatics and computational biology. Please read more on the projects in the collective summary document.

In this programme 'Data Stewardship' is one of the goals. Therefore in this third round applicants were asked to submit a data management plan as part of the grant application which has been assessed as well. The data management plan helps researchers to prepare for the research project and checks whether the obtained data will be treated according to the 'FAIR-data' principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable). For the first time ZonMw made use of the online platform 'DMPonline' in which researchers can collaborate online to create their data management plan.

Enabling Technologies Hotels programme
The programme Enabling Technologies Hotels provides wider access for researchers in the Netherlands to high-end technologies and the connected expertise and infrastructure. This is named the 'Hotel' concept. Researchers ('guests') that have no access to high end technological facilities, can obtain funding for accessing a service-oriented research facility ('hotel'). Researchers can request access to all 'Technology Hotels' of the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL).

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The MIT Scheme R&D collaboration projects opens on 5 July and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency is organising four MIT Roadshows in June to help potential participants.

The second round of the SME Innovation Incentive Top Sectors (MIT) scheme opens on 5 July. This second round includes the R&D collaboration projects that are focused on the development and innovation of products, processes or services. Experience has shown that not all of the applications fit the required criteria. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency is therefore organising four roadshows. If you are considering taking part in this tender, visit one of the sessions of the roadshow. There are 4 roadshows in June 2016.

• 7 June in Haarlem
  
• 9 June in Eindhoven
• 14 June in Groningen
• 23 June in Zutphen
  

The meetings consist of a plenary session, where you will get general information about the MIT scheme and the application process. This will be followed by a network café where you can pose questions to the participating organisations. All meetings start at 15.30 and end at 18.00.

Please visit the Chamber of Commerce website to register or the website of the Netherlands Entreprise Agency for more information. ​