Fellowship Scholarship Special Offered For Government Officials Balkans' Countries'

Description
The Programme  aims  to contribute to the development of effective and efficient state administrations in the region by offering a tailor-made fellowship and training programme for highly qualified young professionals from the  highest ranking  state authorities of the countries of the Western Balkans.

The program will include as follow:

• Fellows begin the programme by attending a 2 - 3 months LANGUAGE COURSE to prepare themselves for work and life in the host institution and
• All 20 fellows are brought together for the first time at the 2 weeks INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR, held in Berlin and Potsdam, in  co-operation with the Potsdam Centre for Policy and Management (PCPM).
• The  TRAINEESHIP PHASE  follows, with each fellow starting work at host EU member state institutions: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic,  France,  Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. 
• Mid way through the traineeship, Fellows are gathered in Brussels for a 4 day INTERMEDIARY SEMINAR and visit of EU and international institutions. 
• The Programme is completed with a FINAL SEMINAR, held each year at a different location throughout the Western Balkans. Fellows attend a last set of trainings in leadership, conflict resolution, communication, negotiations and evaluation.

Scholarship Benefits:
During the Programme duration, fellows receive a monthly stipend of 1,500 euros from the European Fund for the Balkans  in addition to the  re-allocation fee. The costs for language training are also reimbursed up to the fixed sum of 1,500 euro. Travel, accommodation and any other essential maintenance costs relating to seminars and other compulsory events are also covered. The EFB supports the fellows with organisational issues.

Eligibility
Civil servants of ministries  and highest ranking state institutions  in the Western Balkan countries can apply (including entity and cantonal level government in Bosnia Herzegovina and regional level government of Vojvodina in Serbia). 

Application Procedure
Please find furthe at the site link below

Submission Deadline
September 20 2012

Website Link
http://www.balkanfund.org/application2013/docs/Fellowship%20Programme%20DescriptionJuly2013.pdf

Richard Plaschka Grant INn Austrian History, Austria

Description
The grant is named after the Austrian historian, who died in 2001 and who worked at the University of Vienna as a university professor for Eastern European history from 1967 to 1993. In 1981/1982 he was the rector of the University of Vienna. Moreover he was the head of the Austrian East and Southeast Europe Institute from 1958 to 1988. Throughout his life Richard Plaschka committed himself to a cross-border and joint way dealing with the history in the eastern and south-eastern European area. The grant recipients should place emphasis on cross-border collaboration in their scientific activities.

Grants are awarded for up to 18 months; follow-up support is scheduled for grant recipients who have consumed at least 12 scholarship months.

The scholarship will cover:

1. Yearly invitation to a professionally relevant symposium
2. Yearly endowment for the purchase of specialist literature on the occasion of this symposium
3. One-month research grant every three years
4. Subscription to a journal on history topics
5. Habilitation grant
6. Publication allowance

Eligibility
Applications are open to university lecturers of history whose main focus of academic interest is Austrian history. Recipients of Plaschka grants can work as visiting researchers at university departments and carry out specialist studies in libraries, archives or at research institutions.
   
Application Procedure
Your application must be submitted online at: www.scholarships.at

Submission Deadline
1 March every year

Website Link
http://www.oead.at/welcome_to_austria/grants_scholarships/international_cooperation_mobility_grants_scholarships/richard_plaschka_grant/EN/

Scholarship and Grant of OeAD anniversary to study in Social Sciences, Humanities and Cultural Studies, Austria

Description
To celebrate it's 50th anniversary the OeAD initiates an anniversary grant, which will establish a strong connection to the founding history of the ÖAD. The ÖAD was founded as an association of the Austrian universities and was from the very beginning responsible for the support of international students in Austria who often also came from crisis regions.

Duration and focus: 4 to 5 months with a clear focus on the democratization process in the Maghreb countries. Both the topic and the regional relation must be shown clearly in the application.

The amount of scholarship are: for graduates: 940 euros/month and for post-docs: 1040 euros/month

Eligibility
The OeAD anniversary grant supports non-European researchers in selected countries who deal scientifically with the democratisation process and thus contribute to the development and strengthening of the civil society.
The current regional focus is on the countries of the Maghreb; eligible for application are postgraduates and post-docs from social sciences, humanities and cultural studies from the following countries: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt.

Application Procedure
The scholarship will be open for application for the academic year 2012/13 for the first time and is financed from own resources of OeAD. Applications have to be submitted online and are reviewed in a scientific peer review process.

Please submit your application online at www.scholarships.at

Submission Deadline
Around March each year

Website Link
http://www.oead.at/welcome_to_austria/grants_scholarships/international_cooperation_mobility_grants_scholarships/oead_anniversary_grant/EN/#c19034