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The Faculty of Arts intends to announce to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) the submission of three PhD-project proposals, in the context of the PhDs in the Humanities programme. These project proposals will be selected in an internal procedure, for which the deadline is set at Friday 2 January 2025, 17:00.
The Dutch Research Counsil (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant up to €850,000 to nine UG researchers. With this grant, the researchers can develop their own innovative research plans and establish their own research groups.
ICOG member, Dr Julia Costa López, has been awarded a Vidi grant for her research.
The SSH Open Competition XS returns in 2026 with three rounds. Deadline for the first round is 20 January 2026 (internal deadline 24 November 2025). SSH researchers who obtained their PhD at least five years ago are now eligible to apply.
Please find different opportunities for scholarships related to Japan here.
UG authors can apply for funding to support open access publication of monographs or edited volumes. Maximum funding: €5,000 (incl. VAT) per book.
Find more information here.
YARN is a network for the development of talent and a body for (and by) early career researchers at the Faculty of Arts. YARN currently consists of 6 members, including some faculty members of the University’s Young Academy Groningen (YAG). We are looking for 4 new members who are interested in organizing faculty-wide events, discussing research and education policy in the Faculty of Arts, and addressing topics of interest of our YARN membership, considered broadly. Members are appointed for a 3-year term and receive a small financial compensation for research activities.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant of up to €320,000 each to eleven researchers of the University of Groningen and the UMCG: Quentin Changeat, Wen Wu, Femke Cnossen, Stacey Copeland, Bart Danon, Gesa Kübek, Hannah Laurens, Adi Stoykova, Frank Tsiwah, Qian Huang and L. van Olst. The Veni grants are designed for outstanding researchers who have recently gained a PhD.
Starting in 2026, the state of Lower Saxony will fund the Hannah Arendt Fellowships to support excellent international research in the humanities, cultural, and social sciences.
The nomination for the KHMW Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen 2026 has opened. Teachers are invited to nominate excellent master theses (written in either English or Dutch) of students graduating in the academic year 2024/2025. There are 10 prizes of €3000 in total, one for linguistics and communication. More information and the registration form can be found on the website (only in Dutch).
Not everyone can keep up in the increasingly digital society. And those who miss the connection are facing a growing disadvantage. A large project around digital coaches is changing that. In all municipalities in Groningen and North Drenthe, there will be room to train people with a distance to the labor market to become digital coaches. The initiative for this comes from the Digital Literacy Coalition (DLC): a network of organizations that are committed to increasing digital skills in the region.
Funding news for AiS! A large consortium receives 6,8 million euros from the Dutch Research Council as part of the Dutch Research Agenda to put art at the center of climate justice, from Aruba to the Wadden Islands.
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Summer 2025.
Call for Proposals
Funding of up to 4000€ per project is available for initiatives that strengthen the bilateral partnership between UG and UOL in areas outlined in the Roadmap for Cooperation 2020–2030.
Yuliya Hilevych is the Open Science Ambassador for ICOG.
"Academic research findings as well as data, which was used to draw them on, need to be accessible and transparent. I see these as the core principles of open science. This process, however, is often not straightforward and is bound to the 'conventions' of disciplines. As an ICOG (Faculty of Arts) ambassador, I am keen on promoting and co-developing routes for accessible and transparent research and data in the fields of humanities."
If you have any questions related to Open Science, please get in touch with Yuliya.