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The Nexus Institute brings together the world’s foremost thinkers, poets, scientists, activists and policymakers to think and talk about the questions that really matter. In the European humanist tradition, its annual conferences and lectures – open to all and visited by thousands of people – have become a platform for informed intellectual debate on pressing contemporary issues.

Do you want to support the Nexus Institute’s mission and activities? Become a member. As a member of the Nexus Institute, you’re part of a truly international community of culture enthusiasts who value our shared humanist European heritage and want to help keep this heritage alive. All Nexus memberships run per calendar year: a membership joined this year, provides access to our online Treasury during 2026 and includes the Cultura Animi volume of 2026.

Information for registering as a member between 1 and 15 January 2026

Payments for Nexus Institute memberships are collected annually from January 15. If you would like to register as a new member before then, you can do so by issuing an authorization with your credit card. Do you want to pay via iDeal? By clicking on the ‘Authorize iDeal’ button below, an order of 0.01 euros will be added to your shopping cart. You can then click on the desired membership and pay for both products together.

NB: After clicking on the authorization, please do not forget to return to this page and add the membership of your choice to your shopping cart below. You will then see two items in your shopping cart: your membership and the authorization of 0.01 euros. You then pay 0.01 euros with iDeal, and thus authorize us to collect your chosen membership on January 15. We look forward to welcoming you as a member!

Nexus Reader 2026

✓ One volume in our Cultura Animi series each year
✓ Access to our online Treasury, with full-length videos and essays
✓ Free access to livestreams

Nexus Companion 2026

✓ One volume in our Cultura Animi series each year
✓ Discounts on tickets to the Nexus Institute’s activities of 2026
✓ Access to our online Treasury, with full-length videos and essays
✓ Free access to livestreams
✓ Becoming Human Is an Art as a welcome gift

Nexus Friend 2026

✓ One volume in our Cultura Animi series each year
✓ Two free tickets for each Nexus activity in 2026
✓ Access to our online Treasury, with full-length videos and essays
✓ Free access to livestreams
✓ Becoming Human Is an Art as a welcome gift

Nexus Connect 2026 (for people under the age of 35)

Cultura Animi

The journal Nexus, the Institute’s longest-running publication, is published in Dutch. To make the finest essays from Nexus available to our international readers, we have launched the series Cultura Animi. With one volume published each year, Cultura Animi presents the most compelling and captivating essays in an elegant hardbound volume.

With special thanks to

Pepijn Blom – Arnold Croiset van Uchelen – Ab & Brigitte Gillhaus – Karl Guha – Tex Gunning – Dolf & Liesbeth Huijgers – Erik van der Kooij – Van der Linden Fonds – Onno Ruding – Philip Smits & Angelique Dolle – Jasper van Veghel & Miranda Keeler – Pieter Vereertbrugghen – and to those who support the Nexus Institute and prefer to remain anonymous.