Current RENSEP Grants

Archives of the Impossible [Expired]

This grant will allow a student/scholar to visit Jeffrey Kripal’s Archives of the Impossible at Rice University and conduct research on its contents.

Esoteric Practice Fieldwork [Expired]

This Fieldwork Grant of €2,000 enables PhD students and postdoc scholars to cover expenses, or part of them, for ethnographic research.

Art as Esoteric Practice [Expired]

This grant is to be awarded to an artist who utilises esoteric practice(s) in their creative process.

Tandem Paper Prize 2nd round (2025)

This prize will be awarded to a paper co-authored by a scholar and an esoteric practitioner on a topic related to esoteric practices.