Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) Safe Haven Fellowship 2026 (€3,500 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2026

Applications are open for the NIAS Safe Haven Fellowship 2026. The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) Safe Haven Fellowship helps students in danger. It is designed for established students, artists, writers, and journalists who’re unable to hold out their work in their present location or circumstances attributable to battle or battle.

The purpose of the Safe Haven Fellowship Programme is to guard students, journalists, writers and artists whose work is restricted or obstructed by state or non-state actors, by providing them short-term relocation and the OPPORTUNITY to proceed their work. Individuals dealing with extreme infringements on their tutorial freedom because of battle or battle are additionally inspired to apply. NIAS doesn’t settle for candidates affiliated with establishments boycotted by the Dutch state. The University of Amsterdam (UvA), Maastricht University (UM) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) are official companions of this programme.

Benefits

• Fellows are supplied with an workplace, analysis amenities, communal lunch, participation in the NIAS group and commuting journey bills or subsidised lodging in Amsterdam.
• Fellows obtain a stipend of €3,500 per 30 days.

Eligibility

• Open to established researchers, journalists, writers and artists.
• Applicants submitting a scientific analysis proposal should maintain a PhD and have a minimal of three years of postdoctoral analysis expertise at the time of application.
• An applicant submitting an inventive, journalistic or writing-centered proposal, is predicted to have a minimum of seven years {of professional} expertise in their area as made evident in their offered C.V..
• The working language at NIAS is English. Applicants are required to have full proficiency in English in order to contribute successfully to the fellows’ group and obtain suggestions on their very own analysis.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications are evaluated primarily based on:

• A transparent analysis matter and analysis query;
• The challenge’s relation to present literature in the area;
• The tutorial, societal, cultural or inventive relevance of the challenge;
• Identification of key issues and the proposed methodology;
• Feasibility of the time schedule;
• The meant analysis output;
• Fit with the candidate’s tutorial and/or skilled trajectory to this point;
• The added worth of NIAS’ interdisciplinary atmosphere for the proposed challenge;
• The applicant’s potential mental contribution to NIAS and its group.

Application

• Applications should totally adhere to the formal necessities said in the 2026 Regulations Selection Procedure NIAS Safe Haven Fellowship. Applicants are anticipated to have familiarised themselves with all formal necessities said in the rules earlier than submitting their application.
• Applicants should submit a totally accomplished application type by means of the on-line application module. The application have to be accomplished accurately, in truth and comprise all the requested info and required documentation. In case an application is incomplete or doesn’t meet the formal necessities for another purpose, the application can be rejected.
• Applications can’t be expanded, shortened, modified, or in any other case altered as soon as submitted. Applicants can not apply for a fellowship whereas they have already got an application beneath assessment with NIAS.
• Applications and all required documentation have to be written in English and submitted by the applicant themselves. Applications ready and/or submitted by intermediaries can be rejected.

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For extra info, go to NIAS Safe Haven Fellowship.