OSI's Academic Fellowship Program Calls for Departmental Partners

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By Ms. Katarina ROHSMANN on Mar 02, 2010
Status: Public

The Open Society Institute's HESP Academic Fellowship Program (AFP) is expanding its cooperation with university departments in the social sciences and humanities. AFP is seeking departments interested in forming a partnership with the program in the academic year 2010–2011. Application deadline: April 15, 2010.

To be eligible, departments must be at universities in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/1999), Kyrgyzstan, the FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, or Ukraine.

An ideal AFP partner department is part of a classical state university and is in one of the following disciplines:
anthropology, area/cultural studies, economics, gender studies, history, human rights & public law, international relations, journalism/media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy/environmental studies, public policy/public health, social work or sociology.

Interested departments should contact AFP regional offices for further details. Please see the full list of contacts at
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/afp/contact.

Detailed information on the AFP program can be found at: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/afp.
 

Source: Balkan Academic News, February 9, 2010.

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