European Union Center of Excellence Dissertation/Pre-dissertation Grant Announcement

European Union Center of Excellence Dissertation/Pre-dissertation Grant Announcement

 Predissertation/Dissertation Fellowships for Spring and Summer

 

  The European Union Center of Excellence wishes to call your attention to the availability of fellowships of €2,750 (equivalent in US dollars at time of disbursement) for short-term (two to three months) pre-dissertation and dissertation research in Europe during Spring and Summer 2013 for graduate students working on topics related to the European Union.  

 Graduate students from all UC campuses are eligible to apply, but please note the following provisions. For UC Berkeley students, this award may be used for research related expenses including travel, archive work, and book and journal purchases. For students from UC campuses other than Berkeley, funds may only be used to reimburse research-related travel.

 The EU Center welcomes all applications but particularly applications for research on policy issues of special relevance and timeliness falling into these four categories:

1. Transatlantic Relations in a World of Competitors

2. The Euro, the Union, and the World

3. Facing New Challenges: EU-U.S. Collaboration and “Best Practices” to Solve Global Health, Energy, and Environmental Problems

4. Challenges of Integration and Norm Diffusion

 However, applicants may apply a broad definition of "policy issues" and “policy relevance.” Interests that are "policy relevant" do not necessarily need to focus directly on a matter of current and intense concern to EU policy makers. Students from fields such as history, modern languages, literatures and linguistic policy, the humanities, popular culture, and other disciplines that may be outside the immediate purview of government officials are encouraged to apply, as long as the applicant explains convincingly why and how their interests are relevant at some level, even indirectly, to the formation of policy as a whole and how their interests impact policy debates and research on such issues.

 

Deadline: February 1