What we offer

NIAS offers you time and space to advance your research. Its international and interdisciplinary environment inspires the generation of new approaches and ideas that will bring ground-breaking academic work to fruition. Each year, a new fellows group is formed, consisting of advanced scholars, authors, artists and journalists from the Netherlands and abroad.

What NIAS offers

General information about what NIAS has to offer, and what a fellowship entails.
NIAS Individual Fellowships

NIAS offers individual fellowships to scholars who wish to carry out advanced research in the humanities and the social sciences. For five or ten months, scholars are offered the time and space to work on a topic of their own choice. Both Dutch scholars and scholars from abroad can apply for an individual fellowship.
Theme-group Fellowships

NIAS offers two types of theme-group fellowships for scholars of different backgrounds who wish to collaborate on a particular subject or theme: the NIAS Theme-group Fellowship and the NIAS-Lorentz Theme-group Fellowship.
Co-Sponsored Individual Fellowships

For scholars working in specific disciplines or research areas, NIAS cooperates with co-sponsoring partners to offer fellowships that reach specific disciplines or encourage and support a particular research goal.
Practical Matters

A number of things you should know before applying.
Fellowship Application Deadlines

See here for an overview of the fellowship calls that are currently open.
Apply for a fellowship

The call for Fellowships at NIAS opens on 15 January 2020 and will close on 16 March 2020, 12.00 noon (Dutch time). Extended deadline for NIAS Individual and Golestan Fellowship: 19 March 9.00 AM (Dutch time).