The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues has decided to grant the “2017 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award” to a recent publication by Maykel Verkuyten and co-authored with Dr. Kumar Yogeeswaran. The article is entitled “The Social Psychology of Intergroup Toleration: A Roadmap for Theory and Research” and was published in…

Maykel Verkuyten has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will be using this prestigious European grant worth €2.3 million to conduct research into tolerance. The five-year ERC Advanced Grant is awarded to exceptional and exemplary senior researchers. In a society growing ever more diverse in nature, tolerance is one of the key features of…

Dutch national news paper Trouw recently published an article featuring research by Anouk Smeekes, on Nostalgia in present day society and how this related to populist politics. Check it out now!    

Our Master’s programme Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (MERM) has been evaluated by students as a ‘Top rated programme’  in the annual Keuzegids Masters MERM started over 10 years ago and in recent years the programme is assessed as one of the best Master’s programmes in the Netherlands. The MERM programme is completely taught in…

Our Master’s programme Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism is assessed as ‘Good’ by The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders, NVAO in their last evaluation (December 2015). The NVAO is tasked by the Dutch and Flemish governments as an independent accreditation organisation for an expert and objective assessment of the quality of higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders….

Op 20 november 2015 werd door Ercomer, in samenwerking met dagblad Trouw het symposium “Religie: Struikelblok voor Integratie?” georganiseerd. Het symposium, rondom het thema “integratie, een kwestie van geloof?”, stond onder voorzitterschap van Lodewijk Dros, chef Letter & Geest bij Trouw Read more.

News article in Dutch newspaper Trouw on research by Ercomer members Fennela Fleischmann and Mieke Maliepaard. Following the symposium organised by Trouw and Ercomer, an article about the theme was published in Dutch national newspaper Trouw. Read the article (in Dutch)    

Ercomer organiseert in samenwerking met dagblad Trouw  op vrijdag 20 november 2015 een symposium rondom de vraag “Religie: Struikelblok voor integratie?” De titel van het symposium verwoordt een veel gehoorde aanname. Sprekers uit de wetenschap en samenleving zullen hier gedurende de middag vraagtekens bij plaatsen Gastsprekers tijdens het symposium zijn James Kennedy, Frank van Tubergen, Ahmed…

Since the beginning of 2015, you’ll find Ercomer on YouTube. See, for example, Tobias Stark’s contribution.

The Utrecht Summer School, Europe’s largest academic summer school, started monday, July 6th. Ercomer offers the course Migration, Integration and Ethnic Relations, starting August 17th.