Research Grants to Sponsor Projects in the Field of Historical Research 2018
Applicant criteria
- More than 18 year
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Edith Saurer Fund announces the opening for applications for research grants for sponsoring projects in the field of historical research.The call for applications is addressed to Austrian and international post doc scholars.
Criteria for research projects:
The grant will be awarded to research projects focusing on the following criteria:
[1] Investigating social inequality in contexts with issues of gender, social class, lifestyle, ethnicity and religious affiliations.
[2] Primary focus on Europe from the early modern period to the 20th century.
[3] Comparative and international studies.
General conditions:
[1] The research grant will be awarded for still ongoing projects, which means, the submitted work may not yet be concluded. The research grant is project specific.
[2] The grant will not be awarded for exhibitions, events, travel costs or the like.
[3] The applicants commit themselves to conclude their research within the time limit set up in the proposal, which as a general rule should be one year.
[4] The payment of the grant takes place after the grant has been confirmed by the Scientific Advisory Board and ceremoniously awarded to the applicant.
[5] Each project will be evaluated by at least two members of the Scientific Advisory Board. The award and amount of the grant will be determined by the Scientific Advisory Board as a whole.
Registration procedures:
After registration on the website and filling out the application form, all applicants can upload one (single) file (MS-Word or PDF) with their surname and given the name as the filename. The following information has to be included in the file:
[1] Title, description, and methodology of the scientific project (approx. 20 pages) and information on preliminary studies, including a list of references and a work schedule.
[2] Specifications on previous grants and scholarships from other institutions.
[3] CV with all the applicants relevant personal and professional data including the academic degree (Ph.D.).