Burse in Austria

Vienna Institute for Human Sciences, Austria announces

New fellowship programs which will start in the 2nd half of 2009:

- UNITED EUROPE – DIVIDED MEMORY (2009 – 2011) – Junior Visiting Fellowships for Ph.D. Candidates and Post-docs
Application deadline: April 30, 2009

- RELIGION AND SECULARISM (2009 – 2011) – Junior Visiting Fellowships for Ph.D. Candidates and Post-docs
Application deadline: April 30, 2009

Visiting Fellowships (2009 – 2011) with the research topics:
- SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
- SOCIAL INEQUALITY
- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Application deadline: April 30, 2009

- PAUL CELAN FELLOWSHIPS for Translators (2009/2010) – focusing East-West, West-East and East-East translations of canonical texts as well as contemporary key works in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
Application deadline: March 31, 2009

- MILENA JESENSKA FELLOWSHIPS (2009/2010) – for European cultural journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media to pursue in-depth research on a European topic of their choice
Application deadline: March 31, 2009

Every call is published on our website: www.iwm.at/fellowships.htm

(cross posting romstudyabroad)

Burse de doctorat pe migratie, în Olanda

The Maastricht Graduate School of Governance is looking for 3 PhD candidates to work on a project on Migration and Development financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Applicants must be willing to work on 1 of 3 research themes:

1) Remittances, development (local economic growth) and poverty alleviation – The main research question of this first theme will be: To what extent do remittances contribute to development (local economic growth) and welfare including poverty alleviation, the reduction of inequality, vulnerably and increased capabilities?

2) Brain drain and development policy – The types of questions answered under this theme are: What effect does the option for emigration have on potential migrants or institutions in the sending countries? What is the effect of emigration on the sending country due to the loss of human capital? What effects do the highly skilled migrants have on the sending country while aboard? What makes migrants return and how can this be enhanced? What are the impacts of existing general development policy on the propensity of the highly skilled populations in developing countries to migrate to developed countries?

3) Return migration in the life cycle of migrants -  Theme 3 focuses on topics such as: How does return migration fit within the life cycle of migrant workers and migrants coming to developed countries for other reasons (family reunification, asylum)? Under what circumstances do returnees have a positive/negative impact on development? Can reintegration schemes make a positive contribution? Factors like permanent or temporary work/residence permits and voluntary or forced return will be taken into account.

For a more comprehensive description of the research themes go to www.governance. unimaas.nl/ migrationphd. html

burse pentru doctoranzi pe studii europene

The 2007-2009 EUSA Executive Committee is pleased to announce the 2009 EUSA Haas Fellowship Competition, an annual summer fellowship for graduate student EU-related dissertation research. We will offer two unrestricted fellowships of $1,500 each.

The selection committee consists of:
- Liesbet Hooghe (EUSA chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Free University of Amsterdam)
- Bonnie Meguid (University of Rochester)
- Jonas Tallberg (Stockholm University)

Applicants must:
• be pursuing the doctoral degree (PhD) at an accredited institution in any country;
• be writing a dissertation in English;
• have an EU-related, doctoral dissertation topic approved by the professor who will supervise it; and,
• be able to demonstrate the relevance to EU studies of the dissertation topic.

Applicants for this Fellowship should submit:
(1) A two-page (max 1,200 words) précis of the dissertation research
(2) A one-page description that describes the summer project and specifies how the fellowship may be used
(3) A CV
(4) Ask for a letter of support, which must be from the Chair of the student’s dissertation committee; the letter should be sent directly to EUSA (eusa@pitt.edu) under the heading “2009 Haas Fellowship:letter
for [applicant name]“

Please send applications to eusa@pitt.edu, and use the heading “2009 Haas Fellowship: [applicant name].” The firm deadline for applications to be received in the EUSA office is January 31, 2009.
The successful applicant(s) will be notified by March 1, 2009, and will receive the grant as soon as the fellowship award letter has been signed and returned to EUSA. The fellowship will be paid in one lump sum by check only and in US dollars only.

(cross posting romstudyabroad)

burse de doctorat in Marea Britanie

European Studies Research Institute: Graduate Teaching Assistantships 2009

Every year the University of Salford offers a number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidates wishing to study for a PhD. Applications are now invited for scholarships based in the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI) starting in October 2009. The scholarships are worth £13,290 per annum over three years and are open to UK/EU students.

Burse pentru doctoranzi

New Europe College (NEC) anunta concursul anual pentru bursele de cercetare NEC 2009-2010 pentru universitari/ cercetatori romani din domeniile stiintelor umaniste, sociale si economice.

Conditii de participare:
1. candidatul trebuie sa fie inscris la doctorat sau sa aiba titlul de doctor;
2. se va acorda prioritate candidatilor sub 40 ani si celor care nu au beneficiat inca de burse acordate de NEC;
3. o foarte buna cunoastere a cel putin doua din limbile straine de circulatie internationala.

Bursa se acorda pentru un an academic (10 luni). Programul bursierilor presupune prezenta obligatorie in Bucuresti cel putin o data pe saptamana timp de 9 luni. In intervalul de 10 luni, bursierii vor beneficia de un
stagiu de cercetare intr-unul din marile centre universitare/ de cercetare din strainatate. Valoarea bursei lunare (acordata pe durata a 9 luni) este echivalentul in RON a 600 EURO (neimpozabili) , la care se adauga 2.600 EURO pentru stagiul de cercetare.

Data limita de depunere a dosarului completat este: 15 ianuarie 2009 (inclusiv)

Informatii detaliate:
http://www.nec. ro/fundatia/ nec/app_fell. htm

(sursa: eurodesk_info)

Doctorat în Germania pe limbajele emoţiei

Funded within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Graduate School of the Cluster “Languages of Emotion” has as its aim the supervision of exceptional dissertation projects pertinent to the research of the Cluster. The graduate school offers intensive and individual supervision of the thesis as well as a structured course of studies. The research of the cluster is dedicated to the complex interrelations between the use of signs/symbols, the transfer of emotions, aesthetic practices, mental dispositions and affective modes of constructing both personal and social identities the cluster. The graduate school focuses on the following research areas:
- the relations between affective phenomena and various representational media (language, sound, image);
- the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/ shaping emotion;
- correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their disorders)
- modes of emotion modelling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of social be-havior and identity.

Doctorat în Germania pentru studiul societăţilor culturale musulmane

The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments will admit fifteen PhD students to its doctoral program to begin October 1, 2009. Ten of these candidates will receive a Graduate School grant; the other candidates will be supported in their quest for funding.
The Graduate School investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies. It invites applications from candidates whose dissertation project fits one of the Graduate School’s Research Areas. Successful applicants will have a master’s degree in one of the disciplines represented at the Graduate School, with a ranking, where applicable, of above average.
The language of communication is English. Admission is for one year, and, contingent upon a positive evaluation after the first year of study, will be extended for a total of three years.
For more information visit our website at http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de.

Bursele Konrad Adenhauer pentru studentii activi

Fundatia Konrad Adenauer acorda burse de studiu studentilor foarte dotati.
Candidatii trebuie sa demonstreze faptul ca sunt preocupati de viata politica si activ implicati in comunitate, precum si receptivi la valorile crestin-democrate. Identificarea persoanelor talentate, sponsorizarea acestora si pregatirea lor în vederea asumarii de responsabilitati în domeniul politic si economic, în stiinte si în mass-media, în cadrul organizatiilor culturale si civice – sunt obiectivele programului Fundatiei Konrad Adenauer de acordare a burselor “Sur- Place”.

Programul se adreseaza tinerilor studenti, incepand cu anul I de studiu, care îndeplinesc urmatoarele criterii:
- se implica activ în viata sociala si/sau politica
- au dorinta de a influenta pozitiv viitorul politic, economic, educational sau/si social al României
- au rezultate academice deosebite
- cunosc cel putin o limba straina
- cunostintele de limba germana reprezinta un avantaj
- au ca scop profesional angajarea in domeniul public sau activitati ale vietii publice (media, partide, asociatii, universitati. ..)

Data limita pentru inscriere este: 30 octombrie 2008
Formularul de inscriere poate fi descarcat de la adresa de mai jos:
http://www.kas. de/upload/ auslandshomepage s/rumaenien/ sur-place. pdf

Informatii detaliate:
www.kas.de/bukarest
http://www.kas. de/proj/home/ events/29/ 19/veranstaltung _id-32353/ index.html

(sursa: eurdesk_info)

Burse doctorat pentru stiinte politice si juridice in Olanda

PhD Candidate for ‘World peace through world law’
Radboud University Nijmegen Faculty of Law
Nijmegen, (Gelderland) , 40 hours per week

Burse la International University in Germany

International University in Germany (www.i-u.de) ofera burse pentru cei care doresc sa urmeze cursuri universitare sau de masterat, in limba engleza, incepand din septembrie 2008. Programele sunt in domeniile Business, IT si Communication Management sau Foundation Year.

Formularul de candidatura trebuie completat si trimis pana pe 15 august.

Rezultatele la testele obligatorii impuse pentru a urma cursurile la aceasta universitate pot fi trimise pana la sfarsitul primului trimestru.

Bursele se acorda pe principiul primul venit, primul servit si sunt luate in calcul rezultatele academice si abilitatile sociale ale studentilor.

(preluare eurodesk-info)