
For the 3rd time, we’re looking for innovative research ideas and creative approaches to Europe’s challenges of tomorrow!
The Charlemagne Prize Fellowship is an endowed 1-year programme of
the Charlemagne Prize Academy. The programme provides a grant of 25,000 €
per research project, academic mentoring and networking opportunities.
Graduates, Young Professionals, Junior Researchers or employees of
scientific or political institutes are invited to submit their research
proposal on a question that focuses on an issue with a certain relevance
for Europe's future.
The research projects will be carried out independently
by the candidates under academic supervision in their respective
countries of residence or at the local offices of an institution of
choice. The main goal of the programme is to promote new ideas and
approaches that are already discussing tomorrow’s challenges today,
supporting creative minds and independent workers, who are at the
beginning of their academic or professional career. The call is open to
all research disciplines and to various backgrounds.
Application Requirements:
- postgraduate degree (Master or equivalent)
- younger than 35 years of age
- professional English language skills
- citizen of an EU member state or permanent residence in Europe
- submission of an innovative Research Proposal, compatible with the annual focus
- current and prospective relevance of the proposed research question
- first proposal of a host institution for the duration of the Fellowship
Application deadline:
4 July 2021
Submission of the application via our online portal is required:
https://www.charlemagneprizeacademy.com/en/fellowship-programme/application-process
Annual Focus:
Shaping the Change - How Can Europe Succeed in a World of Transformation?
The global pandemic, which has been ongoing for more than a year, has
shifted priorities and made creative solutions to unexpected challenges
more welcomed than ever. Being titled as crisis,as social break or as
challenge in the course of the new decade, with effects for our future
that seem hardly foreseeable, the current situation brings with it
opportunities and risks to react to innovations, to implement them and
to anchor significant changes. Yet, in this time of upheaval,where does
Europe stand?
While the debates are dominated by questions and problems of the near
future at the moment, beit with regard to joint solutions for mutual
support in the fight against the pandemic or for uniform approaches in
the return to pre-pandemic life, the crisis has also worked as an
accelerator, which puts a high number of issues to the test. The ongoing
period of uncertainty has made it clear to us that it is important to
identify issues and solutions today that could challenge us in the
further future. By generating thoughts on what the Europe of tomorrow
might look like,taking into account different perspectives and areas,
there is now an opportunity to develop scenarios at an early stage that
identify problems and solutions in order to shape the prospective change
we’re currently facing.
How can Europe – its people, companies, institutions, youth and
partnerships - succeed in meeting the demands of these and forthcoming
times in a way that is prompt, relevant, modern and feasible for all?
While the current crisis has slowed down social interaction, it has
intensified previously timid transformation processes, whose success
also define the overall outcome for society. Now, with the Conference on
the Future of Europe, the European Union is already taking a first step
towards addressing how the EU can strengthen its joint capacity to act
and move forward in expanding the involvement of the European people.
Another task will be to regularly revise the requirements to which
Europe will have to respond, as well as to integrate new input for the
discussions that are yet to come.
Therefore, we’re looking for research projects that offer proposals,
approaches, ideas and actual role models on how Europe can succeed in
responding to the future challenges and harness the drive for change.
The fellowship programme is open to projects of all forms and
disciplines that offer concrete, innovative and feasible solutions to
the European challenges of tomorrow. We are highly encouraging
interested young researchers of all fields.
The International Charlemagne Prize of AachenFounded by a citizens' initiative, the International
Charlemagne Prize of Aachen has been awarded annually since 1950 to
personalities or actors who have rendered outstanding services to Europe
and European unification. Due to the outstanding importance of the
laureates and their special services to Europe and European unification,
the Charlemagne Prize has developed into a highly prestigious award and
is today regarded as the most important European prize – with high
prestige and political weight.
With its award ceremonies and laureates, the Charlemagne Prize
vividly reflects the history of the European unification process. The
founding fathers of the United Europe – Schuman, Monnet, de Gasperi,
Spaak, Adenauer – were honoured just as much as the bearers of hope of
enlargement and deepening, those responsible for the democratic
institutions, the protagonists of the reunification of East and West,
the European thinkers, achievers and initiators on an intellectual,
cultural and social level.
The Charlemagne Prize Foundation represents a long-termdevelopment process of expanding the International Charlemagne Prize
from a (one-day) award ceremony to a (perennial) platform for intensive
discourse on the progress of European integration. The latest project of
the Charlemagne Prize Foundation is specifically aimed at young
academics: Within the framework of the (virtual) Charlemagne Prize
Academy established in 2019, important future topics of the European
Union are to be defined and innovative approaches to solutions for the
challenges ahead are to be developed. This initiative complements the
Foundation's various programmes, such as the broad public
Side-Programme, the Karlspreis-Europa-Forum or the Charlemagne Youth
Prize.