The Center for Austrian Studies, working in cooperation with the University of Minnesota and other individuals and institutions, has been instrumental in helping to provide students from Minnesota and North America with support in terms of both funding opportunities and opportunities to study in Europe. In addition, the Austrian government and universities have made it possible for European students to come to Minnesota and take advantage of the University's unique educational activities. Please contact the Center for more information.
Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF) Doctoral Research Fellowship
Beginning with the 1992-93 academic year, Austria’s Federal Ministry for
Education, Science, and Culture (BMBWK) – now Federal Ministry for
Science and Research (BMWF) – began awarding a fellowship to one
doctoral student each year from an Austrian university to come to the
University of Minnesota for nine months of research and/or classes. In
exchange for a stipend, the student works part time at the Center on
projects related to the Center’s programs. Over the years, evolving CAS
priorities and the talents and interests of individual recipients have
increased the variety of duties and the importance of the CAS/BMWF
research fellows.
For the BMWF posting (in German), click here. For a list of past fellows, click here.
Center for Austrian Studies Travel Grants
The Center sponsors a competition for students traveling to Austria or Central Europe for language study or research projects. In recent years, travel grants have been offered to University of Minnesota graduate students. The number awarded each year varies according to available funding. Contact the Center for more information.
Research Assistantships
During the academic year and the summer, the Center for Austrian Studies regularly hires two graduate students as research assistants to work on its major projects.
Voices of Vienna Scholarship
In 1987, Kathryn and Wilbur C. Keefer created this scholarship to honor William E. Wright, founding director of the Center. Vocal performance majors at the University of Minnesota who demonstrate a readiness to initiate a singing career in Europe may compete for the award through the School of Music. In alternate years the Center for Austrian Studies holds a competition for the award for undergraduate seniors or graduate students in the social sciences and humanities at the University of Minnesota who are doing research related to Austrian, Habsburg, or Central European Studies. For details about the current competition, click here.
Student Exchanges
The University of Minnesota has partnership agreements with both Karl-Franzens University in Graz and the University of Salzburg, which call for the exchange of 1-2 students each year.
Teaching Assistant Exchange
The University of Minnesota and the University of Salzburg have an exchange agreement at the teaching assistant level. In every second year a graduate student from each institution crosses the Atlantic to do research and teach courses in his or her native language.
Carlson School of Management
The Carlson School of Management (CSOM) maintains a separate exchange program in which the Vienna School of Business and Economics (WUV) and CSOM exchange students on the MBA level. In addition, CSOM has European partnerships that have resulted in Executive MBA Programs at WUV in Vienna (VEMBA) and the Warsaw University of Economics (WEMBA) in Poland.
Center for German and European Studies
The Center for German and European Studies invites applications from graduate students for each year's Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute (TASI) This is a fully-funded fellowship program. The Institute takes place in Berlin every year in late July. For more information, including this year’s theme, dates, and deadline, please go to the CGES website.
Both undergraduate and graduate students should also see Fulbright Grants. There is more information on the "Other Funding" page on this website.
Graduate Student Prize
The German Studies Association announces an award for the best paper by a graduate student on any subject related to German Studies.
Any student enrolled in an M.A. or Ph.D. program at the time the paper is submitted is eligible for the award. The graduate program need not be in German Studies nor in the U.S.
Unpublished papers between 3,500 and 9,000 words in length (including endnotes) will be considered. Previously published papers will not be considered. No more than two papers per graduate program are allowed. Graduate programs with multiple students wishing to submit must vet the papers themselves. Papers may be in English or in German.
Submission: a stapled copy of the paper and an electronic version via attachment should be submitted to each of the three Committee members by the deadline. Papers should identify the author's name, institutional affiliation, contact information, title of the paper, and word count. The student's advisor should sign this cover page to indicate his or her endorsement of the submission. Since papers are to be judged solely on the quality of the work itself, no CV is required.
The winner of the award will be announced at the 2008 GSA conference, and the winning paper will be published in German Studies Review.
Please send submissions to the members of the Award Committee:
Prof. Daniel Walther (chair)
Wartburg College
Department of History
222 Ninth Street NW
Waverly, IA 50677
E-mail: walther@wartburg.edu
Prof. Irene Kacandes
Dartmouth College
Department of German Studies
6084 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3511
E-mail: irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu
Prof. Sanna Pederson
University of Oklahoma School of Music
500 W. Boyd
Norman, OK 73019-2071.
E-mail: spederson@ou.edu
DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2008
DRC Summer School on “Changing Dynamics of the Danubian Region – New Neighbourhood Policy in the EU”
The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna, IDResearch Ltd (IDR), Pécs, Danube University of Krems (DUK), Krems and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs are organising the fifth edition of the Summer School on Regional Co-operation under the intellectual sponsorship of the Danube Rectors’ Conference, between 29 June and 06 July in the city of Krems.
The major aims of our project are:
- to enhance the awareness for the significance and possibilities of regional co-operation
- to discuss and to develop strategies for the improvement of co-operation in the region
- to bring young scientists from the countries of the Danube Region and Central Europe together to establish a regional scientific network within the European Research Area
Our target group:
- 25-30 young scientists from the Danube Region and Central Europe who have records in Political Science or other social science disciplines.
- Graduates who want to present their research projects to the students of the Summer School in the lectures.
- Interested persons from regional organisations, public administration and scientific institutions.
Sub-topics and workshop items:
- European Neighbourhood Policy as Efficient Tool for Conflict Management?
- Economic and Social Perspectives of the European Neighbourhood Policy
- Potentials for the Civil Society in the European Neighbourhood Policy
- Relations of the European Union to the Black Sea Region
The best papers of the School will be published in an annual proceedings volume, which we have been publishing since the launch of the project in 2007.
ECTS credits will be provided by the DUK and by the University of Pécs.
Deadline for Application is 14 April 2008.
Inez Koller
IDResearch Ltd.,HUngary, Institute for the Danube Region and
Mitteleuropa, Austria, Danube University of Krems, Austria
11. Ifjusag, Pecs, H-7624
0036-72-522-625
0036-72-522-624
Email: koller@idresearch.hu
Visit the website at www.drc2008.idresearch.hu