Receptive recruitment

Annually, the Jan van Eyck organises a receptive recruitment campaign. Candidates are requested to submit proposals for research and/or production and to indicate the length of the desired research period (minimum 1 month, maximum 24 months). Candidates can apply for a one or two year period starting at the academic year on 1 January each year.
The selection is carried out departmentally (Fine Art, Design, Theory). In other words, candidate researchers are asked to relate to a particular discipline – this does not necessarily mean the submitted proposal has to fit within the generally valid definition of the chosen discipline: it is all to do with the independently formulated relationship to the discipline in question. Through this receptive recruitment the Jan van Eyck can accommodate unique individual research proposals which cannot be realised elsewhere.

Pro-active

Apart from the receptive recruitment of (advising) researchers the Jan van Eyck also applies a pro-active approach to recruitment. Like the receptive recruitment – the formulation of the research proposal is the task of the candidate researcher – the pro-active recruitment is not carried out according to a particular format. A recruitment and research trajectory is designed per subject and/or per involved party – internal and/or external (advising) researchers; partners in The Netherlands and abroad. A research project can be proposed by a partner institute, after which the recruitment of (advising) researchers is started. Alternatively, a research project may be initiated by an advising researcher or it can be realised together with one or more researchers, whether or not especially recruited to this end. A research project can also be defined by an ad hoc committee, making a pronouncement on what is seen to be an urgent theme within a particular discipline at a given moment in time. In all cases, selection takes place after candidate researchers have applied and have been interviewed by the selection committee. The length of the research period is dependent on the objectives of the research project.

Examples of pro-active recruited projects:
After 1968. What is the political?
Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique
Citygraphy
Design negation. Design, political engagement and populist politics
Extrastatecraft
Imaginary property
Logo Parc
The pensive image
The tomorrow book
Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
UbiScribe

Applying for a department or a project

Candidates applying for Fine Art, Design or Theory are asked to propose an individual research project. They can indicate their interest in participating in one of the projects that are offered by the department of their choice or other departments.