This named fund was established with the estate of Mr. Jan-Paul Dirkse.

Purpose

The purpose of the named fund is to support students, PhD students and researchers, who conduct historical or cultural anthropological research into or publish about Indonesia, all in the broadest sense of the word.

This fund was set up by Jeroen Derwort – alumnus of Computer Science and internet entrepreneur – and named after Mr Derwort's mother, Herma Derwort, who died in 2016. She worked in education, including with young people who had difficulty obtaining a diploma.

Purpose

The fund makes the research project 'Learn to dare!' possible. The research is led by developmental psychologist Anke Klein of the Knowledge Center Anxiety and Stress in Youth and focuses on the preventive approach to fear and shyness in children.

The Legatum Stolpianum, the legacy of Jan Stolp (1671-1753), is possibly the oldest academic prize in the Netherlands. In mid-2014, the Legatum Stolpianum became a named fund within the LUF.

Purpose

The prize began in the context of the Enlightenment as an annual competition in the field of ‘natural theology’, in which Christian faith and ethics were confronted with new scientific knowledge and systematic philosophical reflection. In the mid-20th century, the procedure changed to awarding the prize retrospectively every five years for work in the field of the philosophy of religion, ethics and religious studies. 

Winners since 2001

• 2024: Yara Al Salman, Sharing in Common: A Republican Defence of Group Ownership, en Ype de Boer, Happy Life: Agamben’s Poetico-Philosophical Experiment (in Dutch)
• 2019: Sem de Maagt, Constructing Morality: Transcendental Arguments in Ethics
• 2014: Tazuko van Berkel, The Economics of Friendship: Changing conceptions of Reciprocity in Classical Athens, en Egil Asprem, The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939
• 2009: E.P. (Petruschka) Schaafsma, Reconsidering Evil: Confronting Reflections with Confessions
• 2004: J.J. (Jos) Kole, Moral Autonomy and Christian Faith: A Discussion with William K. Frankena
• 2001 (1994-1998): Palmyre M.F. Oomen, Does God matter? An interpretation of Whitehead as a Contribution to a Theology of God’s Agency.

More information

The minutes book of the Legatum Stolpianum, titled Acta in conventibus Clarissimorum Virorum, qui Legato Stolpiano curando, administrando praesunt, is held in the Special Collections of Leiden University Library. Information about the history and archives of the fund is presented in Legatum Stolpianum: History and Archives of the Leiden Prize Competitions in Natural Theology and Moral Philosophy, 1754-2004 (J.J. Fehr and A. Bouwman).

Leiden University received a gift from the Utopa Foundation for its Department of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology to set up a a Psychology and Economic Psychology research and teaching fund and a new knowledge centre, which will help improve financial literacy in the general population.

Purpose

Psychological insights are essential to understanding people’s economic behaviour. Utopa Foundation has made the gift because it wants to support the University’s research and teaching in the field of economic psychology. With the new knowledge centre in Leiden, these insights will also be used to help promote the financial literacy of the Dutch population. At the centre, lectures, seminars, workshops and courses will be given to professionals from the practice, policymakers and other interested parties.

The fund was established in 2024 with a contribution from the Stichting Steunfonds Pro Juventute Nederland.

Purpose

The aim of the fund is to promote scientific research and education in the field of youth care and youth protection from a pedagogical and legal perspective, including by financing the special chair in Pedagogy and Law.

This project fund was founded in 2023 and has three different donors: the Sofronie Foundation, Mrs. B. Slendebroek-Stokhuijzen & Mr. M.J. Slendebroek and Mr P.F. Pauwels & Mrs. A. Plaizier. Through their donation with earmarked destination, they contribute to the project 'Youth Mental Health Meets Big Data Analytics' by Dr Moji Aghajani of the program group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies (part of the Institute of Educational Sciences).