at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna/Austria
supported by Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation

CURRENTLY, NO APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED!

The Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and the IWM have jointly established the Alexander Herzen Junior Visiting Fellowship program with the aim of strengthening the academic mobility and integration of young Russian academics into the international research community. The program is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences from regions where the foundation focuses its activties: Siberia, the Urals and Far-Eastern federal districts, as well as Voronezh, Lipetsk, Belgorod, Ryazan and Kaluga.

Die Alexander Herzen Stipendien werden gemeinsam von der Mikhail Prokhorov Stiftung und dem IWM ausgeschrieben. Das Programm richtet sich an junge Wissenschaftler/innen aus Rußland, und fördert ihre akademische Mobilität und Einbindung in die internationale scientific community. Bewerben können sich in den Geistesund Sozialwissenschaften arbeitende Doktoranden/innen und Postdocs aus Regionen der Russischen Föderation, in denen die Prokhorov Stiftung hauptsächlich aktiv ist: Sibirien, die Ural- und fernöstlichen Distrikte, Woronesch, Lipezk, Belgorod, Rjasan, sowie Kaluga und umliegende Bezirke.

Jury

Janos Matyas Kovacs

Permanent Fellow at the IWM; Member of the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest

Ivan Krastev

Chair of Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria

Alexei Miller

Leading Research-Fellow at the Institute for Scientific Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences; recurrent Visiting Professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Budapest

Irina Prokhorova

Editor-in-chief of the New Literary Observer (magazine and publishing house), holds a PhD in Philology, awarded the Liberty Prize for contribution to the Russian–American cultural ties (2003), the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2005), and the Andrei Bely Literary Prize (2006); Co-Founder and Chairman of the Expert Board of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation

Lilia Shevtsova

Senior Associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center

The Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation is a Russian private charity established in 2004. It carries out nationwide and international activities, as well as local projects in the Krasnoyarsk region, the Urals, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and in the industrial area of Norilsk. The Foundation’s long-term goal is to promote Russian culture and further its integration into the global context. Key activities include initiatives in arts, science and education, development of mass media, urban environment, sports and public health.