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Young Academy pitches for joint arts and science fund

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‘Cross-fertilisation’ between disciplines will boost innovation, academics tell minister

The Netherlands needs a special fund to support work at the intersection between the arts and science, the country’s academy for early-career scholars has proposed. 

The Young Academy has sent a letter to education, culture and science minister Robbert Dijkgraaf, calling for a fund to “cross-fertilise” collaboration between artists and academic researchers. The initiative is needed, the academy writes, as there is a “growing urgency” for such funding. 

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