Formal Requirements

• On the date that the Call closes, the applicant must have at least three years of research experience since the date they were awarded a Ph.D.;
• The applicant must have a good command of English to contribute effectively to the fellows group and receive input on their own research;
• The project proposal must fit within the scope of humanities and/or social sciences;
• The project proposal should be no more than a maximum of fifteen hundred words including footnotes, excluding references and abstract;
• The project proposal should contain at least a clear description of the project that will be conducted during a stay at NIAS, a research question, as well as the methodological and theoretical contribution the project aims at;
• The applicant may not resubmit a project proposal that was previously rejected by NIAS;
• Applicants can only apply for one type of fellowship per academic year (i.e. either a NIAS individual Fellowship, a partnered individual fellowship, a NIAS theme group fellowship, or a partnered theme group fellowship);
• 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 (see for exceptions on this rule Article 8 of the Regulations);
• Applicants should provide the names of three international experts in their field who would be suitable to approach as referees. Experts should not have a conflict of interest by reviewing the proposal. Excluded experts are colleagues from the same department, co-authors, (former) supervisors, friends, and scholars involved in the current research project proposal;
• The application must be completed correctly and contain all the requested information and required documentation.

Download the Regulations – NIAS Selection Procedure with the eligibility criteria.