The programme is aimed at stimulating and promoting the creative work of artists from various fields – writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, actors, film directors, architects, etc. by integrating them in a community of human and social scholars and spurring interaction between theoretical research and the arts.
Current Programmes
RE-ENGAGE Project (Re-Engaging with Neighbours in a State of War and Geopolitical Tensions)
RE-ENGAGE Project: Re-Engaging with Neighbours in a State of War and Geopolitical Tensions Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has responded by re-engaging with the Union’s...
Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship
'Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship' project presents a valuable funding opportunity for the crisis affected Ukrainian academia in these unprecedented times of war. The programme will support postdoc researchers from the regions struck by Russian aggression. It will contribute to the wider cause of reviving and strengthening the Ukrainian academic infrastructure at home and beyond.
Pforzheimer Fellowship Programme
The programme, supported by a donation of the American philanthropist and bibliophile Carl H. Pforzheimer III, provides for three 5-month scholarships per year to outstanding Bulgarian researchers and university professors.
Independent Bulgarian-Swiss Fellowships for Bulgarian Junior Scholars and Bulgarian Academic Diaspora
The programme is financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science and provides support for young Bulgarian scientists and researchers from the Bulgarian diaspora. It envisages: a) 5 nine-month scholarships per year for young Bulgarian scholars (including one month in a foreign institution); b) 2 three-month scholarships per year for representatives of the Bulgarian academic diaspora working in foreign academic institutions.
Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe
The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is created to enable scholars to undertake research, writing, and local fieldwork in Bulgaria and engage in interdisciplinary discussions.
Gerda Henkel Fellowships
Gerda-Henkel Fellowships (2016-2022) are aimed at scholars in the field of the historical Humanities and Social Sciences that come from the former Soviet space and Turkey. There are no thematic restrictions as regards the proposed project topics.
Advanced Academia Fellowship Platform
This platform, which brings together CAS individual-fellowship programmes, grants possibilities for conducting independent social-science and humanities research in an international, multidisciplinary environment, without restrictions in the selected areas of study - an approach intended to stimulate excellent scholarship at the highest international level.