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Encouraging projects and research in art and science
The Mingler Scholarship has been awarded annually in recent years to a scientist and an artist who are collaborating with each other. The Young Academy and the Society of Arts intend the scholarship to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration by encouraging artists and scientists to work together on plans that stretch beyond one person’s knowledge and imagination – while respecting individual qualities and quirks.
The Scholarship makes an initial financial incentive available to new art-science partnerships (both within and outside the Mingler network). It encourages interaction and synergies in scientific and artistic research.
The Scholarship is intended for artists and scientists who wish to launch a research project together. Only projects in which artists and scientists collaborate are eligible.
Size of Scholarship
The Scholarship consists of the monetary sum of € 10,000 (ten thousand euros) per pair, made available by the Niemeijer Fund.
Frequently Asked Questions
You will find frequently asked questions about the Scholarship below.
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One scholarship is awarded per artist-scientist pair. The next Mingler Scholarship is expected to be made available in 2025.
Artist-scientist pairs can apply by submitting a plan for research, using the application form. The application form will be made available on this page at a later date.
Artist/designer Pei-Ying Lin and scientist Yi-Ching Huang received the Mingler Scholarship for their project “Field Guide to the Artificial Intelligence Bestiary". Lin and Huang are investigating how to capture AI models in a modern bestiary, in which they approach the models as unknown organisms. From this, they will create an interactive “field guide” to be published in March 2024.
How do acrobatics and juggling affect babies' perceptions? And what about this young audience's sense of humor? These are two of the research questions Emilie Weisse and Sabine Hunnius are asking in their project 'Be Kind'.
Visual artist Marion Lasserre and endocrinologist Patrick Rensen of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) were awarded the 2021 Mingler Scholarship for their research Chorea Symbiotica, on the influence of exercise on gut microbiota.
Visual artist Marlies Vermeulen and professor of philosophy of health care Klasien Horstman received the 2020 Mingler Scholarship for research on border activity of viruses and bacteria through mapping.
Visual artist Antye Guenther and neuroscientist Alexander Sack received the first Mingler Scholarship in 2019 for their project entitled ‘How to imagine complex brain patterns - a speculative manual’
Regulations
The Mingler Scholarship Regulations are available below.