Prize Parade 2026

Olive Award 

The Olive Award is presented to the best team of lecturers. Considering the importance of the teams in designing and carrying out education, the Executive Board and deans believe that this award should not go to an individual, but to a team. 

The goal is to demonstrate appreciation for the work carried out by lecturers and to draw attention to their contribution to quality education. The format also enables the university of applied sciences to draw attention to the strength of a highly collaborative team (of 3 to 8 persons). From the winning team, a lecturer will be selected to participate in the national ‘ISO Lecturer of the Year’ award competition. 

The jury award for the winning team is 1,000 euros, to be spent on literature, and 2,500 euros, to be spent on an activity carried out together with students in the professional field/ at a social organisation. The Public Award for the winning team is 500 euros, to be spent on literature. The other one or two nominated teams receive a small gift.   

For more information see the nomination form.

Pim Breebaart Research Award 

The Pim Breebaart Research Award (PBRA) is an award for inspiring research conducted at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. With this prize we want to reward partnerships between research-education-practice. We are looking for mixed teams composed of students, lecturers, researchers, professors (and ongoing partners abroad). 

THUAS established this award to: 

• promote its research programme both inside and outside of its own institution promote research that makes a distinctive contribution to solving a current issue; 
• encourage and challenge promising THUAS staff members to deliver outstanding achievements in the field of research; 
• appreciate and recognise staff members for who they are; 
• thank Pim Breebaart for his efforts towards making research a serious endeavour at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. 

The prize is 5,000 euros for the winning research and a figurine. The money is intended for the research. 

For more information see the nomination form.

Golden Staff Award

The Golden Staff Award rewards the team that stands out by adding value to the research or educational process. It’s a team award, in line with the vision of The Hague University of Applied Sciences, but it can also be awarded to other collaborative bodies like project groups in which various employees from different departments, faculties, centres of expertise and/ or teams work together in a binding and innovative manner. 

The award of Euro 2500,- will be spent on an activity to support the collaboration. 

For more information see the nomination form.

Doctoral candidates 

We would like to reward doctoral candidates with a prize. Doctoral candidates of 2026 (between November 2025 and November 1st 2026) will receive a figurine during THiNK FeST. 

With any questions and/ or comments, please send an email to [email protected] 

Thesis Awards 2026

THUAS’ Thesis awards have been presented on Thursday the 3rd of September during the Opening of the Academic Year. The Thesis Award is presented to students who carry out the best graduation research project.
The goal is to draw attention to theses that reflect the philosophy of the school, both within and outside of the university of applied sciences. Every nominee from each faculty receives 250,- euros pp.

See also:

• Prize Parade 2025
• Prize Parade 2024
• Prize Parade 2023
• Prize Parade 2022
• Prize Parade 2021
• Prize Parade 2020
•  Prize Parade 2019