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Charlemagne Prize Fellowship 2021/2022 in Germany

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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 Aachen
Founded 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-term

development 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.