Post by André Nollkaemper
Distinguished University Professor of International Law and Sustainability; Academic Director of SEVEN at the University of Amsterdam; chairmen of the Board of the TAPP Coalition
Over the next five years I will be part of an ambitious new €6.6 million NWO (Dutch Research Council) project, in which we will seek to contribute to a new balance between the interests of international scientific cooperation and the geopolitical risks it entails. I will contribute to the international law analysis — examining how the legal obligations that protect cooperation interact with those that protect security, and how legal conditions, including academic freedom and human rights, can guide that balance. Part of the project connects to my work at SEVEN - University of Amsterdam: clean energy technology will be one of the cases that we examine. Meeting the Paris Agreement targets requires deep international scientific cooperation on materials and technologies that drive the energy transition (hydrogen, nuclear, photonics, advanced battery systems), while the same cooperation may carry risks of misappropriation. Identifying the conditions under which collaboration can continue responsibly will be SEVEN's contribution to the project, together with Joost Reek and Bob van der Zwaan. The project will be led by Hylke Dijkstra and Mariëlle Wijermars, and involves close cooperation with Machiko Kanetake at TMC Asser Instituut, Barend van der Meulen Clare Shelley-Egan Tom De Schryver and many others. KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen https://lnkd.in/eb-JDPid
