FRIAS Express Special Edition 2019

Dear FRIAS Community,

with this special edition of the Express, we would like to draw your attention to our open Calls for Applications.

» FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Programme for international applicants in the academic year 2020/21

We are looking forward to receiving applications for the FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Programme for the academic year 2020/21. Early-stage academics can apply for the Junior scheme. Minimum requirement is a doctorate degree. The junior fellowship has a 12 months duration of stay. For established academics a Senior Fellowship allows for a stay between 3-10 months. All researchers can apply regardless of their nationality and field of research. We like to encourage researchers from Freiburg to use this is a possibility to welcome colleagues from their international networks for an extended stay in Freiburg. The fellowships are co-financed by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND-Programme and the State of Baden-Württemberg.
 
Note: The deadline for applications is 15 September 2019. Further information about the call

» FRIAS funding programmes for researchers from the University of Freiburg for the academic year 2020/21

For the academic year 2020/21, FRIAS also offers individual fellowships as well as funding for project groups and junior researcher conferences in three different funding schemes. Researchers from all disciplines of the University of Freiburg can apply.

• Internal Junior and Senior Fellowships (duration: 10 months) for early stage researchers or full-time professors at the University of Freiburg;
• FRIAS Project Groups (duration: 12-15 months) for a cross-disciplinary group of researchers who have just started exploring a research idea together;
• Junior Researcher Conferences for PhD students and Post-Docs who would like to organize an international conference or workshop;

» Junior and Senior Fellowships on “Governance of Energy Transitions in the Global South” at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)

In its third call for short-term fellowships, MIASA welcomes applications from excellent researchers to join the interdisciplinary fellow group (IFG) “The Governance of Energy Transitions in the Global South” from September to December 2020 at the University of Ghana. Early-stage researchers (after completion of their PhD) and established researchers from the Humanities and Social Sciences can apply. The prerequisite is that the proposed research project matches the research focus of the IFG on “The Governance of Energy Transitions in the Global South”.
 
Note: The deadline for applications is 15 October 2019. Further information about the call