Dutch North Rhine-Westphalian Fellowships

In the context of an extensive research programme with North Rhine-Westphalia NIAS has hosted a number of Dutch and German NRWF Fellows in the years from 1999/2000 to 2002/03. The aim of this research programme was a comparative study of the Dutch and German 'civil societies' during the period 1850-2000, taking into account the political, the socio-economic and the cultural perspectives.

NIAS, together with the Duitsland Institute in Amsterdam, the Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien in Münster and the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung in Bielefeld, was the initiator of this enterprise.