100 Marie Curie Fellowships for Postdoctoral and Senior Researchers, Germany

100 Marie Curie Fellowships for Postdoctoral and Senior Researchers are available in the M4HUMAN programme of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Germany. The M4Human Programme is aimed at the Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities including Islamic Studies.

Starting in 2011, the Gerda Henkel Foundation is offering Marie Curie Fellowships for experienced researchers in historical humanities including Islamic studies programme aimed at supporting outstanding scholars. This funding initiative is co-financed by the European Commission under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. One objective of this fixed-term programme is to increase networking between researchers in the historical humanities at the international level, including researchers in religious, cultural and political sciences under the special programme “Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements”. Other goals include the promotion of trans-national academic exchange, increasing transnational mobility, facilitating further education and the positive and long-term influencing of the research environment in both origin and destination countries.

Funding for the marie curie fellowships in historical humanities is available in the following fields:

History
Prehistory and Early History
Archaeology
Art History
Historic Islamic Studies
Legal History
Historical studies, religious, cultural and political sciences under the special programme „Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements“.

Eligibility for the Marie Curie Fellowships:

The M4HUMAN program provides 24-month research grants for two categories of researchers:

Experienced researchers (holding a doctorate or with 4 to 10 years of comparable and proven research experience).
Senior researchers (holding post-doctoral qualifications, a comparable academic ranking, or with more than 10 years of comparable and proven research experience).

Precondition:

A precondition for the application to the position for marie curie fellowships in historical humanities is an element of mobility (either incoming or outgoing); i.e. a stay at a host research institute selected by the applicant, situated in a country other than the country of origin and lasting for at least 70% of the 24-month period covered by the grant.

For further information (including the required application forms, deadlines and available endowments) on 100 Marie Curie Fellowships for Postdoctoral and Senior Reserchers in M4HUMAN Program , please visit Gerda Henkel Stiftung webpage.

Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Malkastenstr. 15 D-40211 Düsseldorf

Phone: +49 (0)211 93 65 24 - 0

Fax: +49 (0)211 93 65 24 - 44

email: info@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

web: www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/eng

Note: Application deadline for the 100 Marie Curie Fellowships for Postdoctoral and Senior Reserchers in M4HUMAN Program is 30 June, 2011.

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