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The KIN network is bursting with people who are working hard all year round to make the Netherlands climate-proof for the future. This summer, we are pressing pause for a moment and letting 10 of them tell their stories.

KIN will soon be launching a new funding instrument: the Knowledge in Action subsidy. The Knowledge in Action subsidy mobilises science and practice for just climate transitions through learning by doing and doing while learning.

Knowledge institutions and civil society organisations can jointly apply for a maximum of €50,000 for transformative, experimental intervention projects to explore how collective water management in East Brabant could look: what solutions, research questions and transition learning objectives could accelerate the desired transition?

As of 18 July, Stefan Kuks has left the Strategy and Advisory Council (SAR) of the KIN Pact, the community of the Climate Research Initiative Netherlands (KIN). As water board member for Vechtstromen, chair of the Delta Programme on Spatial Adaptation and professor of Innovation and Implementation of Water Policy at the University of Twente, Stefan has been closely involved in many projects since February 2024 (year). Now that KIN has entered its next phase and new programmes have been launched, he sees a new role for himsel

On 26 June, Science Europe and partners, including KIN, are organising a webinar for researchers, research institutions and decision-makers to explore the potential of rapid evidence synthesis (RES) as a tool for accelerating the uptake of innovations in policy and practice. The aim is to enable scientifically based solutions to flow more quickly to policymakers and other stakeholders involved in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Do you have a promising idea for research that you feel or have been told is unfundable? Have you tried many times to get a collaboration off the ground, only to realise current constraints make it impossible? We will not fund your research, instead, you can apply for funding the process of turning your “promising but impossible-to-fund ideas” into proposals that can challenge how we fund and organise climate research and action.

Last month, the second round of applications for the KIN Pact Network grant was completed. This time, nine transdisciplinary networks – networks representing both knowledge institutions and civil society organisations – were awarded grants. The KIN Pact community has thus been further strengthened with a series of networks, which we are very pleased about.

What is the social impact of climate policy, for example on health services, access to basic services and culture? That is the central question at two meetings called ‘Social Impact Analysis’ organised by KIN in collaboration with the Ministry of IenW at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in April. During the sessions, experts from science and practice will jointly consider the potential social impact of climate policy on the 15 tasks of the National Climate Adaptation Strategy (NAS’26) identified by the Ministry of I&W. The report of these meetings will soon be added to the NAS. In this report, we look back at the second session on 17 April 2025.

We often talk about the cost of climate policy. But what are actually the costs of doing nothing? Financially, but also in terms of health or the environment, for example? At KIN, we examine how we can use existing (economic) insights to make this more visible and arrive at more decisive climate policy. This is badly needed, now that current politics is mainly focused on postponing and doing less.