eScience Center – Lorentz Competition 2025
The Netherlands eScience Center and the Lorentz Center invite researchers to join the annual eScience Center – Lorentz competition. The workshop should bring together researchers and experts from the academic community and the public/ private sector.
The winner will organize a workshop at the Lorentz Center@lambda in Leiden and receive research software engineering support from the Netherlands eScience Center.
This year the focus is on Advancing AI Techniques for Scientific Research and Scholarship
AI currently impacts nearly every scientific domain and beyond. Notably, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” This call focuses on the development and sustainability of research software and the ecosystems that support the application of AI to any scientific discipline.
What we seek
- an innovative research problem that takes us beyond current boundaries
- a need for research software expertise
- an open and interactive format, with few lectures
- at least one scientific organizer based within and one outside the Netherlands
- at least one scientific organizer from academia and one from the public/private sector
What we offer
- a 5-day workshop for up to 25 people between September 2026 and April 2027
- support by eScience Center RSEs, with relevant expertise, equivalent to 0.2 FTE
- travel and accommodation reimbursements
- no registration fees or other organizational costs
- professional organizational support, under the philosophy ‘you do the research, we do the rest’
Procedure
- a 1-page expression of interest including three prioritized weeks for your workshops to by 17 October 2025 10:00 CEST
- announcement selection of the shortlist before 14 November 2025
- a full application via the Lorentz Center application portal by 15 December 2025 10:00 CET
- final decision mid-February 2026
- peer review process: review and feedback by the competition review board; final decision by the Lorentz Center and Netherlands eScience Center directors
More information (FAQ) Lorentz Center
More information about working with the eScience Center and the funding conditions
Contact
Rena Bakhshi
Programme Officer Netherlands eScience Center
open-calls@esciencecenter.nl