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Honours Labs

In addition to the one and two-year honours programmes, the Honours Academy also offers Honours Labs. In these short, experimental projects, you spend a number of weeks working on a topical issue. Researching what the future of food looks like, for example, experiencing from within the arts how you view a concept as 'truth' or unravelling the logic of media in election times.

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Honours Labs are open to students from all study programmes, both for honours students and those who are not taking an honours programme. If you are motivated to join in, you're very welcome! The application deadline is Monday 2 February 2026. 

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Honours Labs 2026

Every year, the Radboud Honours Academy offers various Honours Labs in a wide variety of interdisciplinary themes.

Drama en dilemma

Drama & dilemma

Course

In this mind-expanding Honors Lab, you'll critically examine your seemingly self-evident assumptions. This will help you be better prepared for complex decision-making situations, develop greater self-awareness, and be open to new moral insights.

Binnenhof Den Haag

How do you translate science to politics?

Course

In this Honours Lab, you will visit alumni of our university who have gained a political role and turn your own scientific insights into policy recommendations for politics.

Creatief denken

Making Your Mark

Course

In the Honourslab Making your Mark we try to make a positive contribution by actually making something. If this sounds a bit open-ended, that’s exactly the intention.

Jong en Gezondheid

Young, Healthy and on the Move: healthy food as a reward

Course

In this lab—commissioned by Jong en Gezond en in Beweging (a partnership between the GGD, the municipality, Sportbedrijf, and Bindkracht)—you’ll help make “healthy” the most natural thing in the world again.

Public spaces

Re-signifying Public Spaces: The Streets as Sites of Resistance to Gender-Based Violence

Course

This lab is part of an ongoing project on exploring gender-based violence in public space through co-creative methods in Mexico and the Netherlands.

Information for lecturers

Does the idea of teaching students from a variety of faculties in an interdisciplinary way appeal to you? Would you like to experiment with innovative teaching methods for once? And would you like to work with a group of motivated students who also want to take a look outside the boundaries of their own study programmes. If so, organise an Honours Lab!

The Radboud Honours Academy is looking for lecturers who would like to initiate, organise and supervise an Honours Lab in the coming academic year. An Honours Lab is a short, experimental project in which students work on an interdisciplinary topic for a number of weeks or months. Honours Labs have no fixed structure. Your education idea forms the starting point. You work that idea out into an inspiring Honours Lab together with Radboud Honours Academy programme directors. The Radboud Honours Academy also offers practical support in the implementations of an Honours Lab (such as facilities, hall hire and if necessary, the practical organisation of an excursion).

Have you got a good idea that you'd like to develop further? If so, get in touch with Esther Fluijt, honours [at] ru.nl (honours[at]ru[dot]nl). 

Contact

Do you want to know more about the Honours Labs or do you have any questions? Please get in touch with the programme director: 

Esther Fluijt
honours [at] ru.nl (honours[at]ru[dot]nl)