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.
In close cooperation with partner institutes from Ukraine, Europe and the United States, the Wissenschaftskolleg has launched an initiative to support Ukrainian scholars in their effort to found an Institute for Advanced Study in Kyiv. Full-scale institutional activities in Ukraine will only be possible once the war is over, but in September 2023 the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) has taken up its activities and hosted a first interdisciplinary cohort of fellows.
In 2023, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies joined forces with In geveb to provide a series of grants to scholars and artists to work with Yiddish materials in the archive’s collection. The first cohort of fellows resulted in five successful projects ranging from traditional research and the creation of pedagogical materials for using Yiddish testimony in the classroom to musical performance and artistic works.
