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MWK-Fellows · Fellowships in Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the Max-Weber-Kolleg

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-09-01 → 2020-08-31
EU contribution
€1,416,000
Participants
1
Scheme
MSCA-COFUND

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Results in brief

Fellowships in Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the Max-Weber-Kolleg

MWK-Fellows is an international fellowship programme for experienced researchers, which is co-financed by the European Union. The programme offers fellowships to excellent experienced researchers who are conducting interdisciplinary research in cultural and social studies. Fellowships are awarded competitively within an open, merit-based and transparent multi-level selection process. Successful applicants have the opportunity to conduct their research projects in an intellectually stimulating and vibrant research environment provided by the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber-Kolleg). Fellows profit from the advanced study programme and an excellent research infrastructure. At the same time, they will be provided with individual support and guidance as well as training, mobility and networking opportunities. Fellows receive support in enlarging their research networks, in identifying promising career prospects in and beyond academia, and in strengthening their skills through personalized training opportunities and secondments. Through the MWK-FELLOWS programme the Max-Weber-Kolleg strengthens the internationalization of research at the University of Erfurt. It also osters interdisciplinary research by bringing together researchers in cultural and social studies that refer to the ‘Weberian’ research programme of the Max-Weber-Kolleg. This programme combines historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives with an interest in normative issues in the social sciences. It has a focus on societal challenges of contemporary societies, especially (religious) plurality, cultural diversity and social order, processes of acceleration and growth. The successful implementation of the MWK-FELLOWS programme has significantly improved the expertise to host and successfully manage projects financed through the EU Research Framework Programmes. Additionally, the research carried out by the fellows contributed to reflect on societal challenges of contemporary societies.

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Project objective

The MWK-Fellows programme financed by COFUND aims to allow excellent incoming researchers from countries other than Germany (in accordance with the EU-mobility-rule) to conduct their own, freely chosen, independent research projects in a highly competitive and intellectually vibrant research environment provided by the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber-Kolleg). The Max-Weber-Kolleg is a high-ranking research centre which forms an avant-garde institution of the University of Erfurt. It is distinguished by a unique organisational structure – combining the features of an Institute for Advanced Study and a Graduate School – and a ‘Weberian’ research programme. The ‘Weberian’ research programme combines historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives with an interest in normative issues in the social sciences. It has a focus on societal challenges of contemporary societies, especially (religious) plurality, cultural diversity and social order, processes of acceleration and growth. The core disciplines are sociology, economics, religious studies, law, philosophy and history, but MWK-Fellows programm is open for related areas as well.The Max-Weber-Kolleg is based on the principles of interdisciplinarity and internationality with a long-standing and progressively fine-tuned fellowship programme. By means of the COFUND-action Max-Weber-Kolleg will not only increase the number of international fellows but include a new intersectoral dimension into its fellowship programme.At the Max-Weber-Kolleg, MWK-Fellows will enjoy the best possible support and an opportunity of being connected with larger research projects. Nevertheless the applicants’ freedom of choice of the research project is fully guaranteed.The MWK-Fellows programme will improve international high-level research and science with and for society and will contribute to the fostering of the European Research Area (ERA), especially in the field of societal challenges.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSITAT ERFURT · ErfurtCoordinatorGermany

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union