The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
announces the Individual FCFP fellowships for the academic year 2014/15. The
fellowships start on September 1, 2014.
Up to 18 FCFP fellowships are available to
researchers regardless of their nationality and field of research. According to
the EU mobility rule, applicants must have had their main residence or carried
out their main activity (work, studies, etc) outside Germany for more than 24
months during the 3 years prior to the application deadline; compulsory
national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into
account. Returnees from phases of international, inter-sectoral and/or
non-academic mobility (such as researching outside Germany, working for
industry, or after a career break e.g. due to family reasons) are especially
encouraged to apply.
Fellowships of 3 to 12 months in the Senior scheme
and of 12 months (humanities and social sciences) or up to 24 months (natural
sciences, medicine, engineering) in the Junior scheme may be applied for. They
will allow researchers to conduct their own research projects. Fellowships will
be awarded to individuals with challenging and innovative research projects of
high academic quality. The determining selection criteria are the academic
excellence of both the applicant and of the project proposal. Personal
qualifications with regard to international expertise, leadership skills and
interdisciplinary interest will also be taken into account during the
evaluation of the applications.
Application is open to proposals from all
disciplines that can be supported at the University of Freiburg.
Applicants are encouraged to learn about the University of Freiburg’s
profile of particular research strengths as well as the (non-exclusionary)
research foci of the institute for the academic year 2014/15.
Successful applicants will become FRIAS fellows
with all the corresponding rights and obligations for the requested funding
period. Each fellow will receive an internationally attractive living
allowance (Junior: E 13 TV-L, Senior: W3-equivalent professorial salary,
additional regulations apply for applicants with unlimited work contracts at
their home institution), mobility allowance and a research cost contribution
(theoretical sciences: up to 5.000 €, experimental sciences: up to 12.500 €). A
mentoring program is put in place for each Junior Fellow in her/his career
development.
FRIAS unites research in the humanities and social
sciences, the natural sciences, engineering and medicine. It is the aim of the
Institute to support academic exchange across existing boundaries: between
disciplines, between different cultures and countries, between established and
younger researchers. Furthermore, FRIAS engages in activities opening the
research community to society and politics. Fellows will be part of this
community and profit from the lively research environment of the university and
its eleven faculties.
The institute provides its fellows with modern
office space and an up-to-date infrastructure. Accommodation is available
through the university guest house and additional centrally located apartments.
Fellows have full access to all library services from one of the leading German
university libraries. Special attention is given to fellows who plan to come to
Freiburg together with their families.
FRIAS lies geographically close to both France and
Switzerland and actively takes advantage of the rich intellectual resources of
this truly European region, with research links to the universities of Basel
(Switzerland) and Strasbourg (France) being of particular importance.
The completed FCFP application form together with
the required documents has to be uploaded on the application website for
External Senior Fellowships or Junior Fellowships by January 10th, 2014.
