Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Program to Promote Free Scientific Exchange
The conditions for the free circulation of knowledge and the unhindered exchange of scientific hypotheses have deteriorated in recent years around the world. The polarization and rigidifying of public debates are increasing, and societal and political forces are intervening more frequently in research and teaching, to the point that researchers are being persecuted, expelled, or deprived of their liberty. This narrows the scope for scientific controversies, which are the indispensable precondition for academic work. The Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellowship invites researchers who have served the free exchange of knowledge and hypotheses and the open scope for academic controversies to spend three to five months at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study. The Fellowship is tied to financial support of up to 50,000 Euros for projects that aim to preserve free scientific exchange. The program is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung and the Marga und Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung.
Applications for the Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellowships are not possible; funding decisions are made solely on the basis of nominations by the members of the Advisory Board.
For further information on the program, please contact Vera Kempa.
Advisory Board
- Elçin Aktoprak
The School of Human Rights Association, Ankara - Constantin Ardeleanu
New Europe College, Bucharest - Ivan Krastev
Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia - Noémi Lévy-Aksu
Truth Justice Memory Center Hafiza Merkezi, Istanbul - Viktoriya Sereda
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin - Olga Shparaga
European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus, Minsk - Balázs Trencsényi
Central European University, Budapest - Magdalena Waligórska
Humboldt University of Berlin
Selection Committee
- Susanne Frank
Humboldt University of Berlin - Julika Griem
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen - Lisa Herzog
University of Groningen - Kader Konuk
TU Dortmund University - Daniel Schönpflug
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Martin Schulze Wessel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
In advisory capacity:
- Henrike Hartmann
Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover - Heinz-Rudi Spiegel
Marga und Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung, Essen
