Partnerships

Researchers at the Faculty of Humanities are engaged in a multitude of partnerships and other collaborative efforts, both within the academic community at Utrecht University and on a national and international level. Intense knowledge exchange and collaboration takes place among fellow researchers in and outside of Utrecht, as well as across the borders of disciplines.

This page provides an overview of selected partnerships on a faculty, university, national and international level.

* = Faculty of Humanities is commissioner

Faculty

• Research institutes:
  Research Institute for Theology and Religious Studies (INTEGON)*
  Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC)*
  Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS)*
  Research Institute ZENO (Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute for Philosophy)*
• Centre for the Humanities*
• Centre IIMO (Centre for Intercultural Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, Missiology and Ecumenism)*

University

• Centre for Conflict Studies*
• Descartes Centre*
• Ethics Institute*
• Interdisciplinary research focus areas:
  • Cultures and Identities*
  • History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities*
  • Origins and Impact of Institutions: Local, National, European*
  • Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
  • Conflicts and Human Rights
• Utrecht Action Plan Teachers (plan for reducing the teacher deficiency in secondary education and for improving the quality of teachers; link leads to page in Dutch)*

National

• BINT (Business in the Netherlands in the twentieth century)*
• Centre of Expertise for Literary Translation (Expertisecentrum Literair Vertalen, ELV)*
• Game Research for Training and Entertainment research programme(GATE)
• National research schools

International

International projects
The Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University coordinates several international research and education projects funded by the European Union.

International networks

• Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
• Dutch University Institute for Art History (Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, NIKI), Florence*
• European Architectural History Network
• International Economic History Association (IEHA)
• LERU: League of European Research Universities
• Network on Teaching Religion in a multicultural European Society (TRES)
• University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

Partner universities
The Faculty of Humanities collaborates with a large number of partner universities as part of the Erasmus students exchange programme.