The Humanities Sector Plan shows how the humanities faculties of ten Dutch universities want to strengthen their collaboration in education and research. The objectives of the sector plan are:
- to strengthen a robust and sustainable foundation for humanities education and research;
- to stimulate more interdisciplinary collaboration in education and research and collaboration with societal partners;
- to contribute to solving societal issues and strengthening the Netherlands’ international position.
Universities have made the strategic choice to give impetus to two interdisciplinary research themes, namely ‘Humane Artificial Intelligence & the Datafied Society’ and ‘Cultural Heritage & Identity’.
In addition, extra investment will be made in the field of education and research ‘Languages and Cultures’.
This interim evaluation was completed in June 2026 and can be found here. We summarize the conclusions here.
Below, we report the progress per theme.
