Visegrad Scholarships at the Open Society Archives

The International Visegrad Fund in coop­er­a­tion with the Open Society Archivum Budapest offers research fel­low­ships at the Open Society Archives (OSA) at the Central European University in Budapest. As part of the joint project, 8 fel­low­ships will be awarded annu­ally to selected schol­ars, researchers or jour­nal­ists from the Visegrad Group (V4) coun­tries and 2 fel­low­ships annu­ally to non-V4 applicants.

The fel­low­ships will be given on a com­pet­i­tive basis to scholars/artists/journalists who wish to con­duct research at OSA, and whose cur­rent research projects are rel­e­vant to the hold­ings and the given research pri­or­i­ties of the Fund and the Archivum. The schol­ar­ship of €2,000 is designed to pro­vide access to the archives for schol­ars, artists, and jour­nal­ists, and to cover travel to and from Budapest, a mod­est sub­sis­tence, and accom­mo­da­tion for a research period of two months. Scholarships for shorter peri­ods are pro-rated.

Category 1—Research Team

A call for researchers who are will­ing to put together a research team (even includ­ing artists) and a project. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date for this call for pro­pos­als will be expected to under­take the fol­low­ing tasks: to build a research team; to plan the research project; and to over­see its exe­cu­tion. The research project will be focused on an area that is closely linked with one or more of the OSA Archives’ main collections. Support will be offered to one research team per year. The inter­na­tional team of a min­i­mum of five mem­bers (team leader included) will receive the equiv­a­lent of five full research grants, irre­spec­tive of the total num­ber of researchers involved.

The aim of the project is for the research group to pro­duce mate­r­ial for a book based on the hold­ings of OSA and get it ready for publication.

Category 2—Thematic Group

A call for pro­pos­als for indi­vid­ual researchers who agree to study the same topic and are will­ing to coor­di­nate their efforts in such a way that their respec­tive accom­plish­ment of the research aim through dif­fer­ent approaches will result in the joint pub­li­ca­tion prefer­ably of a sin­gle volume.

The topic for the year 2011–2012 is—Is There Anything Usable One Can Learn from Communism? (from sci­ence, pub­lic pol­icy, resis­tance against com­mu­nism tran­si­tion after com­mu­nism, etc.).

Nearest dead­line for sub­mit­ting pro­pos­als is January 15, 2012; fol­lowed by July 15 and October 15 (with new top­ics which are to be announced in May 2012).

Category 3—Individual Fellows

5 pro­pos­als will be sup­ported in this cat­e­gory. Fellows are free to work on the project of their choice, how­ever, in the aca­d­e­mic year 2011–2012, appli­cants with the fol­low­ing topic might enjoy advan­tage over other appli­cants: The History of Propaganda, Objectivity and Truth under the Cold War and Right After.

Nearest dead­line for sub­mit­ting pro­pos­als is January 15, 2012; fol­lowed by July 15 and October 15 (with new top­ics which are to be announced in May 2012).

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion regard­ing the pro­gram and the appli­ca­tion pro­ce­dures please con­sult www.osaarchivum.org or con­tact Ms. Katalin Gádoros (Gadoros@ceu.hu). We look for­ward to your research proposals.

More infor­ma­tion: Visegrad Scholarship at OSA (OSA website)