Kiem grants: submit a project proposal for interdisciplinary collaboration!
Through Kiem, Leiden University is providing 25 annual seed grants between 2024 and 2026 to develop new interdisciplinary (interfaculty) teaching/research collaborations and encounters.
Kiem applications (€10,000 per project) should involve staff from at least two faculties at Leiden University. The call for the third round of Kiem grants was published at the beginning of April. Would you like to find out more about the conditions for applying? See the general information.
The deadline for submitting proposals for interfaculty collaboration is Monday 5 May 2025. A selection from among the eligible applications will be done by drawing lots.
As inspiration, take a look at some Kiem projects that have already received funding and involve staff from our faculty.
2023-2024 (first round)
Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
More information? Read the interview with initiators Carsten Stahn and Pieter ter Keurs.
Skills for interdisciplinarity and mental health in a complex work environment
The full list of projects awarded from the first round (2023) is available here.
2024-2025 (second round)
‘Crystal ball’?: A product pilot to predict the effects of future urban interventions on experienced safety - Leiden University
How can photorealistic 3D scenes help predict whether interventions in urban public spaces will foster citizens' sense of security?
Making up Migrants / Disabled: The pasts, presents, and futures of human classifying
How can we study the classification of migrants and people with disabilities in an interdisciplinary way and bring together researchers from these fields to find common ground?
Picturing Scholasticide: The Future of Higher Education in Palestine
How does the destruction of universities in Gaza, also called ‘scholasticism’, affect academic life, and what are the theoretical and legal underpinnings of the term?
Litigation in Name of the Public Interest
How do interest groups in the Netherlands use strategic litigation to bring about political, social or legal change, and how does this strategy compare to other, more classical, ways to influence policy?
The full list of Kiem grants awarded in the second round (2024) is available here. A list of all projects that were submitted in 2024 is also available.