12 months’ Research Stay at the Goethe University of Frankfurt
Purpose: Young scientists from across the world are invited to conduct a 12-month transdisciplinary collaborative RESEARCH STAY at the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and to join the JQYA working on the academy platform. The research stay is exclusively dedicated to the theme “Tenets, Variations, Transformations.”
We award one international scientist per year with €60,000 as a personal grant to cover costs during the research stay. Further, we provide a furnished apartment and a fully equipped office at a prime location at low prices. The successful candidate will become an International JQYA Fellow of the Johanna Quandt Young Academy, co-shape the Academy Program, and boost his/her own scientific career.
Academy Program: The questions around the JQYA’s annual theme will be explored within the integral elements of the Academy Program, such as monthly round-table discussions, symposia, workshops, impulse-giving events with our eminent Senior Scientists, etc.
Topic: Each year, the JQYA defines a new research theme. For 2019–2020, the JQYA has chosen to address current issues in sciences, arts, and humanities through the theme ‘Tenets, Variations, Transformations’.
As basic principles, tenets not only guide the practice of scientists across disciplines, but also the social and political life in our societies. Even though widely accepted, such principles are, however, subject to important variations. Any changes over time, that are transformative in scope, challenge the fundamental nature of tenets. Such paradigm shifts result in a conceptual re-thinking such as discovering of unknown natural laws, changes of institutional policies, definition of novel traditions, priorities, research fields, etc.
The three key terms of tenets, variations, and transformations offer multiple avenues for a truly interdisciplinary discussion by posing scientific questions such as:
- What are the ‘tenets’ we as a community adhere to in various contexts such as scientific practice across disciplines, or in society and politics?
- What type of ‘variations’ can we discern from these tenets, and under what conditions are these still acceptable deviations of a given norm?
- How do we define ‘transformations’, and to what extent do these deconstruct or replace pre-existing tenets and their variations?
- How are the assumptions of these concepts correlated in the different disciple fields?
Location: The city of Frankfurt am Main, located in the middle of Germany and Europe, is an attractive, diverse, and scientifically inspiring place for conducting research. The guest scientist can use the extensive infrastructural network within the Rhein-Main-Universities Alliance.
WHO? International early career researchers, who are interested in these afore-mentioned questions, and who would like to join our interdisciplinary debates.
Applications will be accepted until 30.05.2019.
Details here.