KIT (Royal Tropical Institute)

Since 2017, KIT Institute and the UN Women Training Centre have run Feminist Edge, a professional development programme for gender trainers. Feminist Edge re-captures and re-imagines gender training as a feminist project, establishing a new approach to training for gender equality. On Tuesday 4 August 2026, Feminist Edge will host a Special Event: Bringing a […]

Inclusion and equity are at the heart of KIT’s mission — values we’re proud to reflect during WorldPride. For the coming weeks, the facade of our building on the Mauritskade will be lit up in rainbow colours in the evenings like many other institutional buildings in Amsterdam, and we proudly raise our flags. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 On […]

Learning for Health Equity in a Changing World We are pleased to share KIT Institute’s 2027 Health Courses Brochure, featuring our Master in Public Health and Health Equity and a wide range of short courses for health professionals from around the world. Health systems today are facing rapid change. From climate pressures and conflict to […]

On Saturday 8 August, KIT welcomes the Grachtenfestival for a special evening of North Indian classical music. As part of the festival’s 2026 Artist in Residence program, trombonist Arjan Linker and tabla player Niti Ranjan Biswas will perform a series of traditional ragas at KIT Theatre. Ragas are musical frameworks associated with specific moods, emotions and […]

Across Africa, member-based farmer organisations (FOs) are widely seen as key drivers of rural development. On the one hand, they represent their members—providing platforms for collective voice, advocacy, and rural representation. On the other, they are expected to operate as viable commercial entities: organising input supply, delivering services, and engaging in collective marketing and storage […]

On 5 May, Liberation Day, KIT hosts a special programme combining a Freedom Meal with a historical lecture about KIT in wartime. Historian Niek Lohmann will explore the institute’s role during the Second World War. Shortly after the German invasion in 1940, large parts of the building were occupied by the Ordnungspolizei. At the same […]

Last Friday, we had the privilege of bringing people together at KIT Institute for a conversation on a topic that felt both urgent and deeply human. “Who Will End TB?” was a community-led symposium on TB, stigma, and society, organised by artist and TB advocate Paulina Siniatkina and Shaun Palmer from IAVI — just days […]

This World TB Day, we’re reminded that ending TB is possible — even as climate-related disasters make it increasingly difficult. Last year, our global health teams interviewed 10 TB programme implementers from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Zambia, and Zimbabwe about how climate-related disasters affect TB services — and how geospatial tools can […]