Tresoar and the Friends of Tresoar stimulate a new generation of researchers of Frisian history, literature, culture and/or literature. Together they established the Tresoar Fellowship. Every year a stipend is made available to a young academic from home or abroad. This allows an innovative research project of up to three months to be supported. Candidates…

The news magazine de Volkskrant and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) are welcoming submissions for the Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025. The prize of 1,500 euros is annually awarded to a student who, according to the jury, has written the most innovative master’s thesis at a Dutch university. For the 2025 edition, Master theses…

On 30 September 2025, the organisers behind the VU Amsterdam projects Coping with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Drought in the Anthropocene network organise the symposium ‘Water Pasts and Futures Symposium’. This half-day symposium explores both historical and future droughts, the risks of cascading drought-to-flood events, and the…