Call for Applications are invited for Transatlantic Academy Volkswagen Stiftung Fellowship. The Transatlantic Academy is a scholarly forum dealing with the mutual challenges facing transatlantic relations in the coming years.
The Transatlantic Academy is seeking candidates for a fellowship sponsored by the Volkswagen Stiftung for the fellowship year 2013-2014. The successful candidate will spend nine months beginning in September 2013 in residence at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC engaged in a collaborative research project with a group of leading North American and European scholars and policy practitioners.
The target group for applicants are promising young scholars in their post-doctoral research phase based at German institutions who want to strengthen their research capacity in a specific field of the humanities which can be expected to have a strong impact on their individual research profile and expertise.
The Transatlantic Academy was created in 2007 as a partnership between the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. The Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation joined as full partners beginning in 2008, and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung joined as a full partner in 2011. The Compagnia di San Paolo joined in providing additional support in May 2009, as did the Joachim Herz Stiftung and the Volkswagen Stifung in 2011. In addition, the Academy received startup funding from the Transatlantic Program of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through funds of the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
The Transatlantic Academy is a research institution dedicated to create common approaches to the long-term challenges faced by Europe and North America. The Academy does this by bringing together scholars, policy experts, and authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from different disciplinary perspectives to research and analyze a distinct policy theme of transatlantic interest each year. Working together from a collaborative and interdisciplinary perspective, Academy fellows bridge the Atlantic academic and policy communities, and use research, publications, and seminars to develop policy-relevant contributions to critical debates in North America and Europe.
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