Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative Junior Fellowships

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Job Description: Junior Fellowships support young individuals in early stages of their formal doctoral studies (such as aspirantura) and focus on development of ideas and skills for high quality research work. Junior Fellowships serve as medium for testing and challenging the theories, methods and assumptions in the core of the individual research projects, while at the same time guiding and assisting the Fellows in their first independent large-scale research efforts.

The program provides fellows with the opportunities for the:

* enhancing familiarity with the state of the art in their disciplines and understanding of the current thinking in their fields, improving access to seminal scholarship, relevant international expertise and contemporary debates within the international scholarly community;
* advanced training in and practice of contemporary methodologies and tools for scholarly research and approaches to teaching and curriculum development;
* conducting individual and collaborative original, innovative and high-quality research with critical discussion and peer feedback on the research process and outcomes;
* applying research experience and outcomes to development of teaching and curriculum at the region’s universities and promoting research work as integral part of students’ learning;
* peer collaboration and mobility on regional and international level;
* development of skills and venues for publicizing scholarly work.

CARTI fellowships are typically awarded for up to 24 months, with ongoing review and evaluation procedures in place. A fellowship usually offers:

* funding for research activities, communication, access to necessary equipment and resources;
* funds for exchange visits between the fellows and the international scholars (all CARTI fellows are encouraged and eligible to receive funding to spend up to one academic semester at the home institution of the international scholar during the term of the fellowship);
* fellowship stipend.

CARTI organizes a series of project review and trainings for the selected candidates prior to the formal start of the fellowship and offers an academic program consisting of a summer school and other seminar, discussion and training activities during the period of the fellowship.

Eligibility: Candidates for the Junior Fellowships must hold a diploma of higher education (of at least a Specialist or Masters level or the equivalent) and be formally registered* at a Doctoral studies program (a Ph.D. or equivalent program, such as aspirantura, leading towards a first Doctoral, such as a Candidate of Science, degree) in the humanities and social sciences in the region, or anticipate to obtain such formal registration no later than December 2010.

* Please note: The PhD enrolment requirement may be waived for applicants from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Interested individuals should inquire with the program administration prior to submitting the application.

The program is open to citizens who are residents of one of the following countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Fellowships are awarded through an open competition based on an academic review of the Applications, consisting of an Application Form, Project Proposal, Curriculum Vitae, academic references and supporting documents. The semifinalists identified in the review process will be notified in January 2011 and invited to take part in the CARTI Research Design Workshop and personal interviews in March 2011. The final decisions on the Fellowship awards will be made in April 2011.

Interested individuals are invited to complete the on-line Application Form and submit all supporting documents in electronic versions via the OSI On-Line Application System: https://oas.soros.org/oas.

Please consult the CARTI Guide for Applicants (available for download below) for details of the application and selection process. HESP program staff is available for further consultations.
Deadline
The deadline for submission of electronic applications is November 10, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Budapest time.
Contact Information

Open Society Institute / International Higher Education Support Program
Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative
Október 6. u.12.
Budapest 1051 Hungary
Tel: +36 1 882 3854
Fax: +36 1 882 3112
Email: carti@osi.hu

Oleksandr Shtokvych
Senior Program Manager
Email: oshtokvych@osi.hu

Korlan Smagulova
Program Coordinator
Email: ksmagulova@osi.hu

Further Fellowship Information and Application

Scholarship Tags: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Fellowships, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan