Junior Fellowship

Junior Fellow Application Announcement 2011/12

In 1991 Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study was founded in order to foster academic life in Central and Eastern Europe. Every year the Collegium invites scholars from all parts of the World either for an entire academic year or for only one semester. In addition, the Collegium also invites several promising young scholars to work on their preferred research projects in this challenging academic environment.
One goal of the Collegium is to encourage research in newly emerging disciplines and in new problem areas that we confront in the 21st Century. The Collegium wishes to promote strong interaction between scholars from various countries who belong to different academic cultures, and to encourage them to exploit the opportunity to meet scholars active in other branches of science, including the social sciences and the humanities, as well as the hard sciences.

For this purpose, the Collegium offers younger scholars and researchers residential Junior Fellowships for Academic Year 2011/2012 (1 October to 31 July), for a period of five months. The preferred areas of study are the following:
- European studies
- communication and social networks
- theoretical biology
- theoretical finance
- political economics
- history
- anthropology.

Applications by excellent candidates from other fields will also be given consideration.

The stipend package consists of a stipend lump-sum of EUR 7,500 for the 5-month period including travel costs, etc. Scholars who are not residents of Budapest or its neighbourhood will be provided with accommodation.

Requirements:

In order to qualify, scholars and researchers should:
- be 35 or younger
- be classified as 'pre- or post-doctors'
- complete the Collegium's application form
- submit a Curriculum Vitae
- submit a list of publications (and, if possible, a copy of one of them)
- submit a research proposal with scholarly references (approx. 2-4 pages)
- submit two letters of recommendation from established scholars in their field of study and
- a photo of yourself in a jpg. format
- be prepared to reside in Budapest during the term of their Fellowship, and for this purpose, they should be free of other academic or work commitments for this period.

All materials must be submitted in English, French, or German with a short, English-language summary (150 words). Please send all material electronically to info@colbud.hu (Zsuzsa Ágoston) by 15 July 2010.

The Rector and the Permanent Fellows of the Collegium will invite short-listed applicants for a personal interview.