Volkswagen Foundation funds the continuation of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS)

The Volkswagen Foundation has approved another three-year funding phase for the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS). The institute, initiated by the Wissenschaftskolleg in cooperation with renowned partners in Ukraine, Europe, and the USA, will receive €1.2 million – enabling the program...

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The jurist and legal philosopher Christoph Möllers will become the new Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2026

On 18 July 2025 the Members’ Assembly of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, in accord with the Board of Trustees of the Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study, elected Christoph Möllers, professor of public law and philosophy of law at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as the new Rector...

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Call for Applications: Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) 2020

The consortium of 10 European IAS announces the launch of the 2020 call for funding for international research groups – Constructive Advanced Thinking – short CAT. CAT is an open international call designed to foster interdisciplinary research teams of young promising individuals wishing to address emergent societal issues with fresh ideas.

Together with our sister institutes in Europe, we have launched the 2020 call for funding for research groups - Constructive Advanced Thinking - short CAT. CAT is an open international call designed to foster interdisciplinary research teams of young promising individuals wishing to address emergent societal issues with fresh ideas.

The group funding will provide travel funds to teams of early career researchers (three to five persons, possibly including a stakeholder) to advance their constructive thinking and stimulate discussion in the best research environments Europe has to offer.

Deadline for applications is 1 September 2020, 15:00 CET via an online application platform.

Successful applications will be notified in the beginning of December 2020. Invitations start after 1 January 2021. More information is available in the  call text or online. Questions can be directed to Daniela Kromrey via e-mail: CAT2020(at)uni-konstanz.de

We are looking forward to more "cat(s)" around Europe!

IAS CEU (Budapest), Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem), Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (Montpellier), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Amsterdam), Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris), Scienza Nuova (Torino), Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin), Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Bielefeld) and Zukunftskolleg (Konstanz)

 

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