Formal Requirements

• On the date that the Call closes, the applicant must have at least three years academic experience since the date they were awarded a PhD – or the equivalent experience NIAS has formulated for journalistic, literary and artistic researchers;
• The project proposal must broadly fit within the scope of humanities and/or social sciences;
• The project proposal should consist of no more than a maximum of fifteen hundred words including footnotes, excluding references and abstract;
• The project proposal should contain at least a research question, a clear description of the project that will be conducted during a stay at NIAS, as well as the methodological and theoretical contribution the project aims at;
• Applicants can only apply once per call;
• Applicants cannot apply for a fellowship while they already have an application under review with NIAS;
• An applicant who previously held a NIAS fellowship may only apply for a NIAS Individual Fellowship if there are at least 10 years between the application date of the previous fellowship and the current application deadline date;
• The NIAS director reserves the right to endow fellowships independently from any NIAS selection procedures to any candidate or alumni regardless of selection status or previously held fellowships at NIAS;
• Applicants provide the names of three international experts in their field who would be suitable to approach as referees. Conflicts of interest include, but are not limited to, the categories described in the “KNAW code of conduct for boards, juries and committees that assess and decide on the conferral of awards memberships and funding” (See the KNAW website);
• Project descriptions may not be generated by AI;
• The application must be completed correctly and contain all the requested information and required documentation. In case an application is not complete or correct, the application will automatically be rejected.

You can find the regulations (in PDF) here.