Fellowships, Calls for Papers and Student Conferences
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
Programme Information I. Programme The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is granted in recognition of the outstanding academic achievements of exceptionally promising junior researchers from abroad and enables them to establish their own groups of junior researchers at research establishments in Germany. Scientists and scholars from abroad, whose research records to date have already qualified them to be recognised as top-level junior researchers and who are expected to continue producing outstanding results as recipients of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, are eligible to submit applications.
Virtually unaffected by administrative constraints, the award winners are able to concentrate on high level, innovative research work of their own choice in Germany and thus strengthen the internationalisation of research in Germany. The award money allows the winners to finance their own working group at a university or non-university research establishment of their own choice in Germany and also covers their living expenses.
II. Application requirements and selection procedure The programme is open to scientists and scholars from all countries and disciplines who completed their doctorates with distinction less than six years ago and have published work in prestigious international journals or publishing houses. Foreign academics staying in Germany are eligible to apply if they have not been working in an academic capacity in Germany for more than two years at the time of application. German academics are eligible to apply if they have been working in an academic capacity abroad for at least five years at the time of application. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation particularly welcomes applications from qualified, female junior researchers.
Complete applications must reach the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Selection Department Jean-Paul-Str. 12, 53173 Bonn by 4 January 2008 at the latest.
Comprehensive information can be found in the Information for a complete application preceding the application form at: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/de/programme/preise/kova.htm. An independent Alexander von Humboldt Foundation selection committee selects up to eight award winners and determines the amount of award money. The award is conferred by the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
III. Value and purpose of award and use of funds Winners of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award will be granted funding totalling up to 1.65 million EUR to conduct the approved research project over a period of five years commencing immediately after receiving the award. The award money will be allocated in instalments. The first instalment may be drawn as soon as the award winner has accepted the award and submitted the complete acceptance documents. The award is intended to sponsor the project headed by the winner at a host institution in Germany (including the necessary equipment and material, personnel, travel expenses etc.) and should be used economically and prudently. It may be used to cover all expenses serving this purpose. Scientific equipment financed by the award will become the property of the host institution immediately upon purchase. Part of the award may be used to cover the award winner’s living expenses. To help cover costs resulting from the programme-related use of existing and/or specifically acquired material and specially-created personnel infrastructure (e.g. general institute facilities, laboratories or workrooms, operating and maintenance costs, finance and personnel management and auditing), German host institutions at which award winners carry out research work may receive a lump-sum (of up to a total of 15%) from the award money granted to award winners (administrative lump-sum). Detailed information on the award winners’ accounting obligations (proof of use of funds, etc.) can be found in the Regulations on the use of funds for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (http://www.humboldtfoundation.
IV. General regulations and obligations The award recognises the outstanding academic record to date as well as the personality of leading junior academics. It is thus taken for granted that, both in their previous academic work and during the research visit to Germany, award winners have abided by and will continue to abide by the rules of good scientific practice and the corresponding laws obtaining at the respective research location. Should an award be granted, further details can be found in the General Regulations and Information for Award Winners. When accepting the award, award winners undertake: • to concentrate their entire working activity on the research project and to be present at the host institution in Germany regularly and continually; secondary employment is only permissible in exceptional cases, provided that it does not interfere with the sponsorship objectives, and requires written agreement from the AvH; • not to utilise any other fellowships or funds from other German institutions designated for living expenses when using part of the award money to cover their living expenses; • not to make use of any congruent sponsorship from funding deriving from German academic sponsorship; part funding from German or foreign sources must be reported to the AvH immediately.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation strongly recommends that host institutions should grant award winners the right to supervise doctoral students through to submission, if necessary in cooperation with a university. This should be negotiated with the host institution and, if necessary, in cooperation with a university on an individual contract basis. Any such contract should be submitted to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, if necessary after the award has been accepted. as of: June 2007 1 Gross salary not affected by collective agreements amounting to approx. 5,300 EUR per month (annual gross labour cost approx. 81,000 EUR)
Thirty-Third Annual "Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union" Brussels, Belgium, 2007
The Jean Monnet Chair of the Centre for European Law of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is pleased to announce the 2007 "Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union". This three week-Seminar, which takes place in Brussels, is directed by Prof. Gabriel M. Wilner, Executive Director of the Dean Rusk Center, The University of Georgia School of Law (USA), in cooperation with the Centre for European Law of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Institut d'Etudes Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
The principal aim of the Brussels Seminar is to provide a group of interested law students with intensive exposure to the institutions and law of the European Union (EU). The core elements of the Brussels Seminar are a series of lectures and discussions, all given in English. A total of approximately eighty hours of lectures, seminars, and workshops are planned. Several briefings and other meetings will be organised (Court of Justice, European Parliament, Palace of Justice of Brussels, etc.).
During the Seminar, various aspects will be addressed. The completion of an integrated internal market, the remarkable expansion of the scope of the EU as evidenced by the Treaty on European Union which envisages an economic and monetary union and a political union, the accession of the new members of the EU, and the further expansion of the Union will be the subjects of particular attention in Seminar discussions. EU integration through the Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nice Treaties will be analysed and discussed, as will the further development towards the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.
European students will have the opportunity to participate in the Brussels Seminar.
The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), in co-operation with the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) invites European researchers, academics, and practitioners to submit research papers for the Josseph de la Vega Prize 2007.
The papers should focus on issues related to the securities markets in Europe. A discussion of possible future developments of these markets is particularly welcome. The papers' main emphasis should be on practical issues covering strategic, technological, regulatory and/or related topics.
The authors should be of European origin or should have performed most of their research activity in Europe. They should be born in 1970 or later (age limit 35 years). For more information, please contact:
Grants for doing research in Parisian Universities
The City of Paris has a program of grants supporting the coming of foreign researchers (both junior and senior researchers), to do their research in Paris for a period of: - 3 to 11 months for junior researchers (monthly net income 2,500 euros + flights) - 2 to 6 months for senior researchers (monthly net income between 3,000 and 4,000 euros + flights) Priority will be given to junior faculty but senior applications will also be reviewed. Objectives of the program: to develop and sustain cooperation between foreign cities and Parisian research centers. Projects should clearly indicate the goals and the sustainability of the joint research - All the disciplines are concerned. - Candidates should have excellent profiles - Interdisciplinary projects and emerging fields of research will be encouraged.
Priority will be given to: - 25% of the grants will be given to projects dealing with the city of Paris. - A comparative approach of urban policies between Paris and another city will be welcome (especially cities from developing countries as Russia, china, India, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Lebanon).
Conditions to apply: - not be settled in France - to be invited by a public Parisian institution
Applicants should provide: - A resume(1 page) - Half a page describing the institution of origin and recent publications on the subject - Half a page describing the host institution and recent publications on the subject - summary of scientific proposal with short list of references, 2 pages - a half page explaining the relevance and scientific value for Paris and the perspectives of cooperation between the two research centers
