Visiting Exchange Fellowships

Both parties commit themselves to supporting these visiting exchange fellows, by offering office facilities, and in some cases temporary housing and reimbursement of travel costs.

The IIAS welcomes Dutch scholars (or holders of a permanent residence permit in the Netherlands who are affiliated to/and or employed by a Dutch research institute) at post-PhD level to apply for a visiting exchange fellowship under the following MoUs:

1. Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen
2. East-West Center in Hawai'i (EWC), and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National University at Canberra (RSPAS-ANU)
3. Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
4. Institut für Kultur und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
5. The Institute of Oriental Studies (IOS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscou
6. Vietnam National University Hanoi (VNU), Hanoi
7. The University Grants Commission (UGC)/Ministry of Education, Islamabad

In all cases the applicants are required to send in a curriculum vitae, an outline of the proposed research (i.e. work plan), a letter of recommendation, and reasons for seeking placement at the other institute.
Selected candidates are supposed to present a progress report to the receiving institute before departure, and to write a report for the sending institute.

IIAS maintains good relations with the following institutes and can mediate in establishing contacts with them:
l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris and Asia; l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris; The Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA), Aix-en-Provence; The Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London; The Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford; The Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull; The Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (IsMEO), Rome; The Instituto di Diritto e Politica Internazionale, Milano; the Asia Departments of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg; The Südasien Institut and the Sinologisches and Japanologisches Seminar, Heidelberg; The Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg; The Institut für Ethnologie, Bern; The Centro de Estudos de Historia e Cartografia Antiga, Lisbon; The Centro de Historia de Alem Mar, Lisbon; The Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore; The Oriental Library, Tokyo; The Institute of Eastern Culture, Tokyo; The Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo; The Toyota Foundation, Tokyo; The Japan-Netherlands Institute (Tokyo); The Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo; The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto; The Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto; The Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; The Thammasat University, Bankok; The Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok; The National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research (NIHCR), Islamabad; The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad; The Asia Departments of the University of Peshawar, Peshawar; The Central Asia Study Center Peshawar, Peshawar; The Asia Departments of the University of the Punjab, Lahore; The Centre for South Asian Studies, Lahore; The Asia Departments of the University of Sindh, Jamshore; The Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madras, Madras; l'Institut Français de Pondicherry, Pondicherry; The Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi; The Indian National Research Council, New Delhi; The School of International Studies, Nehru University, New Delhi; The Indian Council for Cultural relations; The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), The Delhi University, New Delhi; The University Grants Commission, New Delhi; The Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor; and others.

Researchers contacting the IIAS for mediation are requested to send in a curriculum vitae, an outline of the proposed research (i.e. work plan), a letter of recommendation, or any other relevant information.

The IIAS can provide you with more information. Please contact Ms S. Kuypers at the IIAS, tel: +31-71-527 2227