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Apply now for the Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School
Dear students,
As a student of the Humanities Honours Programme you are eligible to apply for the Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School (NAHSS)! The NAHSS is a unique collaboration connecting a variety of Dutch universities, four ministries and more than a dozen Dutch and Asian multinationals. The NAHSS gives you an opportunity to experience Southeast Asia on an academic, business, and cultural level through, among other things, a consultancy project and a trip to Asia with an international group of students. This blogpost will highlight some of the reasons that this programme might be a great oppertunity for you as an honours student.
Are you ambitious, entrepreneurial and a second- or third-year undergraduate student? Are you interested in learning more about China and Southeast Asia? Do you want to visit and conduct a consultancy project for one of the major multinationals and ministries partnering our programme? Then the Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School (NAHSS) might be something for you!
Each year, the NAHSS grants a group of 70-100 ambitious students of all disciplines and Dutch universities the opportunity to participate in this dynamic programme, preparing participating students for a future with Southeast Asia and China as world powers. We want to create a truly global, inclusive and diverse programme and therefore will not only invite Dutch but also English-speaking students from our Dutch partner universities to join us from this year onwards!
The programme starts in March with a Kick-Off weekend, in which the selected students will get to know each other. This marks the starts of the consultancy project (5-10 hours per week) from March until June. The preparatory track in the Netherlands consist of conducting a consultancy project for one of our partners, a Masterclass, Inhousedays at our partners, lectures from Southeast Asia and China
experts, soft skills training by for instance PwC and McKinsey, and cultural activities such as the optional Chinese lessons. The NAHSS ends with a three-week summer programme in July-August in which the students will have the opportunity to delve
, among other things, into the central theme ‘Navigating Change’, work on case studies with social impact, visit leading multinationals, attend guest lectures by CEOs and Asian experts, and explore the culture.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity and join the network of international top students! Join our in-person information session on 13th December 2023, at 19:00, at Drift 25, Utrecht, in room 102. You can also join our online information session on December 19th at 19:00. Register here.
Do not forget to apply between the 1st of December 2023 and the 10th of January 2024, so that hopefully we can meet each other at the Kick-Off event in March 2024!
Visit our website NAHSS for more information and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram to stay up to date. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via info@nahss.nl or ask one of our chief ambassadors at your own university.
Hope to see you then,
Kind regards,
The UU Honours College and the NAHSS Program Board 2024
Other Summer Schools:
The NWIB Summer School will also be taking place this coming summer, for those of you interested in academically and culturally exploring Rome, Athens or Florence. You will receive an email in the second semester with general and application information.