The NUFFIC (Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education) has granted a Huygens Scholarship, a fund for studies in a foreign country by excellent students, to both Maaike Graaff and Lieuwe Zijlstra.

Maaike Graaff recently completed her Ma Philosophy cum laude and was admitted to the MSc programme Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at Oxford University.

Lieuwe Zijlstra is a Research Master student and received the fund for his study at Yale University.