Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative (CARTI) is the program that helps young academics to gain competency and skill in the early years of their career. CARTI offers scholarship to highly qualified students and helps them in getting involved in international intellectual exchange and debate related to their subject areas. The program offers complete support to students for original research in their home academic environment.
The CARTI fellowship program is open to young academics working towards their first doctorate and recent graduates of PhD or equivalent programs in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
CARTI is implemented through Junior and Senior Fellowships.
Junior Fellowships
Junior Fellowships support individuals in early stages of their formal doctoral studies (such as aspirantura) and focus on developing ideas and skills for original academic research. Junior Fellowships provide a medium for testing and challenging the theories, methods, and assumptions in the core of individual research agendas, while at the same time guiding and assisting the fellows in their first independent research efforts.
Senior Fellowships
Senior Fellowships are available to young scholars who have recently received their doctoral (e.g., candidate of science) degrees. The fellowships support innovative and critical research agendas and development of international research and teaching partnerships with special emphasis on presentation of scholarly work and integrating the new scholarly thinking and outcomes and experience of research into university teaching.
The program provides fellows with opportunities for:
– enhancing familiarity with the state-of-the-art in their disciplines and association with the current thinking in their fields, by improving access to seminal scholarship, relevant international expertise and contemporary debates within the international scholarly community;
– applying research experience and outcomes to development of teaching and curriculum at the region’s universities and promoting research work as integral part of students’ learning;
– peer collaboration and mobility on regional and international level;
– development of skills and venues for publicizing scholarly work.
Through its mentoring scheme, CARTI helps to establish and supports active direct collaboration of the Fellows with advanced International Scholars engaged in the studies and teaching in the similar subjects.
Academic Subjects and Working Language
CARTI is open to support academic research in a wide range of subjects and topics in the humanities and social sciences. The proposed projects will typically be concerned with the study, revision and application of the foundational scholarly thinking to analysis and explanation of specific issues and research questions, rather than aim at policy development or implementation. The program strongly encourages and helps develop original and innovative research agendas that have the bearing on the important issues within the communities and societies of the scholar’s country and wider region and research of comparative nature.
Last date for submitting the applications is November 7, 2011.
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