Deadline 1 Feb 2027
NIA grants for study stays in Athens
1 February 2027, 23:59 Greek time (22:59 CET)
For PhD students and recent PhDs at the six NIA universities
The Netherlands’ research hub in Greece
What brings you to the NIA?
Choose one, and we’ll show you where to start, what’s due and who to ask.
For researchers
Study stays with free accommodation at the NIA, a library a few minutes from the Acropolis, and help with permits for museums and sites.
What you can do
- Apply for a grant for a study stayUp to three months at the NIA, €700 a month
- Book a guest roomGuest rooms and the Frans van Hasselt apartment
- Search the library catalogue ↗On nia.openabekt.gr
- Request a permitTo study in Greek museums, archives and sites
- Find a fieldwork projectEleven projects, from Nea Triglia to Zakynthos
Due soon
Deadline 1 Feb 2027
VVNIA-Goekoop Grant
For PhD students, post-docs without a permanent position and research master’s students
Next for you
Conference · 12–14 NovemberA Towering Hinterland. The case of Medieval ChalkidaAthens and Chalkida · in person and onlineFor students
Courses and winter schools in Greece, grants to study here, and help planning your stay.
What you can do
Due soon
Deadline 15 Nov 2026
Winter School “Migration in the Margins of Europe”: applications
Apply by 15 November 2026.
For students at Dutch universities
Deadline 1 Feb 2027
VVNIA-Goekoop Grant
Also for research master’s students
Next for you
Winter School · 18–29 January 2027Intensive Winter School “Migration in the Margins of Europe”Athens · two weeks of fieldwork-based teachingFor visitors in Athens
Lectures, conferences and book presentations in English, free and open to all, a few minutes’ walk from the Acropolis Museum.
What you can do
Next lecture
20th TEXNH lecture · Thursday 18:00In the footsteps of the Mycenean tektonMakri 11 and online · in English · freeAlso coming up
Conference · 12–14 NovemberA Towering Hinterland. The case of Medieval Chalkida Book presentation · 19:00Nature and Human Nature in Ancient GreeceFor Friends and partners
Six Dutch universities and the Friends of the NIA make this work possible. Here is what your support does now.
What you can do
Your support at work
Deadline 1 Feb 2027
VVNIA-Goekoop Grant
Funded by the Friends of the NIA, for PhD students, post-docs and research master’s students.
Next for you
Book presentation · Thursday 19:00Nature and Human Nature in Ancient GreecePublications of the NIA, vol. X · Makri 11Coming up at the NIA
All news & events
20th TEXNH lecture
In the footsteps of the Mycenean tekton. Reconstructing the facade of the Treasury of Atreus
Maria Kontaki & Kostas Paschalidis (Hellenic National Archaeological Museum)
Thursday 29 October, 18:00NIA, Makri 11 · in person and online
ForVisitors in AthensResearchersStudents
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International conference · 12–14 November 2026
A Towering Hinterland. The case of Medieval Chalkida
ForResearchersVisitors in Athens
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Book presentation · Thursday 3 December 2026, 19:00
Nature and Human Nature in Ancient Greece
ForVisitors in AthensFriends & partners
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14th Winter School · 18–29 January 2027
Intensive Winter School “Migration in the Margins of Europe”
ForStudents
Makri 11, Makrygianni
Come by. We’re a few minutes from the Acropolis.
- TodayOpen 9:00–17:00 · library until 16:00
- Next closureWednesday 28 October, Ochi Day
- Getting here3 minutes from metro Akropoli (line 2), near the Acropolis Museum
- AccessStep-free entrance
Watch again
All recordings
Lecture · Monday 12 October 2026
The real age of the Greek alphabet. Rethinking the transmission of alphabetic writing from ‘East’ to ‘West’
It is generally assumed that the alphabet was introduced to Greece in or shortly before the 8th century BCE, after a period of some four centuries without writing. Recent insights and discoveries as well as new 14C dates, however, suggest that this paradigm is in need of revision.
Νέστορός εἰμι εὔποτον ποτήριον·
“I am Nestor’s cup, good to drink from.” From the Cup of Nestor, 8th century BC.
Latest news
All newsVideo of the evening in commemoration of Lucy van Schelle and Sophia Topali-van Schelle: “Hanged”. An appalling war crime and its memory (1944–2026)
Visit of the National Documentation Centre to the NIA Library
Now available: “Nature and Human Nature in Ancient Greece”, volume X of Publications of the NIA
Jan Paul Crielaard new director of the NIA as of 1 March 2026
