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) five nine-month scholarships per year for young Bulgarian scholars (including one month in a foreign institution); b) two three-month scholarships per year for representatives of the Bulgarian academic diaspora working in foreign academic institutions.
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.
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...
RevHum fellowship program, proposed jointly by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the New Europe College Bucharest and developed with the financial support of the Porticus Foundation, aims to underscore the cognitive functions of the humanities and their potential as critical disciplines by opening them up to issues relevant in/for the contemporary digital world – issues that are “practical”, but also epistemological, ethical, philosophical, etc. The program is intended to accommodate a broadest range of themes pertaining to humanities and social science disciplines provided that they link up to contemporary debates about or major challenges to the human condition.
'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.
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.
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 (2016-2025) 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.
