Support of projects by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation focuses on scholars in the humanities, social sciences and biomedicine fields. The planned project should be limited in terms of the subject and time.
An application can be filed in the following areas of support:
The French Red Cross Foundation, a research organisation dedicated to humanitarian and social action, carries the will of the French Red Cross to commit to an effort of analysis with regard to suffering and ways of addressing it, anticipating the needs of vulnerable populations in France and in developing countries, and supporting new models for operations, training and capacity reinforcement. As such, it has decided to launch a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on the topic of the prevention and management of natural risks and disasters.
L’université Paris Lumières (UPL) lance son appel à projets recherche pour 2021.
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Mary Zirin Prize in recognition of an independent scholar in the field of Slavic Studies. The award of $500 is named for Mary Zirin, the founder of Women East-West.
The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt (Max-Weber-Kolleg) announces the Max Weber Prize for Young Researchers. This prize is intended to honour the outstanding work of a young researcher in the context of a Weberian research programme, i.e. in the field of interdisciplinary cultural and social studies with historical depth and/or interest in normative questions. The aim is not an exegesis of the work of Max Weber, but rather the application of his research programme to questions of cultural, religious and social science.
News about crises, conflicts, and the global security situation is coming in ever shorter intervals: we are all witnessing the transformation of a former world order - with an open ending. The foundation - with this funding program - would like to contribute to a better understanding of these fundamental changes and support the development of ways to deal with them. The focus is on a holistic understanding of security, a European perspective, and effective cross-sectoral exchange. Wanted: the next generation of security experts!
The call "Young Researchers - Supporting postdoctoral researchers in the early stage of their career" is a two-phase programme that fits within Fondazione Cariplo’s mandate "Creating enabling conditions to strengthen our communities".
The PhD represents the highest level of education in the Italian academic system. Typically, it requires an investment of at least three years and is meant to foster scholars’ academic independence, creativity and methodological knowledge.