Rotary Grants for University Teachers
DAAD German Academic Exchange Service
Fulbright Scholar Program
Association for International Education (NAFSA)
Rotary Grants for University Teachers provide funds to higher education faculty to travel abroad to teach at colleges and universities in developing countries. The program is intended to build international understanding and foster development while strengthening higher education in low-income countries. The program also aims to establish ties between higher education institutions, leading to the exchange of ideas and information across the globe. The subjects taught by grant recipients must be relevant to the needs of the local population and contribute to the area's socio-economic development.
For more information about the program and the application procedure, please visit:
http://www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/EducationalPrograms/RotaryGrantsForUniversityTeachers/Pages/ridefault.aspx
DAAD German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. It is an independent association of the German Universities, who elect its leadership. DAAD offers programs and funding for students, faculty, researchers and others in higher education. The agency provides financial support to over 50,000 individuals per year, as well as representing the German higher education system abroad, promoting Germany as an academic and research destination, and helping build ties between institutions around the world. The New York office of the DAAD, one of 14 international branch offices, supports three missions:
- To act as a bridge between US, Canadian and German universities, higher education professionals and students by providing information and assistance
- To administer fellowships and other programs for students and scholars in the US and Canada
- To contribute to Germany’s public diplomacy by promoting Germany’s academic, scientific and cultural achievements in the US and Canada.
1. Learn German in Germany
The Goethe-Institut, through DAAD, offers one to two grants to faculty members in all academic fields except modern languages and literatures to attend intensive language courses at Goethe-Instituts in Germany. Four and eight-week courses are offered year-round.
An extensive description of the Goethe-Institut, including teaching philosophy, course content, course dates, organization, and a map of the locations is available at the Goethe-Institut website.
Deadline
Applications should be postmarked by November 15, or May 15.
For more information about the program, application procedure, and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=50412
2. Conference Funding in German Studies
Faculty members and advanced graduate students in the humanities, social sciences and related fields are invited to apply for co-funding to organize workshops, seminars and conferences that embrace the interdisciplinary and/or comparative study of the history, politics, economics, law, society, culture and the arts of Germany.
StADaF (Ständiger Ausschuss Deutsch als Fremdsprache / Standing Committee for German as a Foreign Language) funds are made available by the German Foreign Office to encourage distinguished scholarly contributions to a deeper understanding in the US of the contemporary Germany.
Deadlines
Application must be received by DAAD New York by
- The final deadline for applications for the second half of 2009 is May 31, 2009
- For conferences January-June 2010, applications must be received by October 31, 2009
For more information about the application procedure and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/page/48518/?cm_c=123027
3. Group Study Visit
DAAD offers financial support for academic information visits to Germany which are organized by faculty members for groups of students. Group Study Visit grants are intended to encourage contact with academic institutions, groups and individuals in Germany, and offer insight into current issues in the academic, scientific, economic, political and cultural realms. All departments are eligible for this funding.
Deadline
- DEADLINES:
November 1 (for trips commencing some time between March 1 and June 1 of the following year)
February 1 (for trips commencing some time between June 1 and September 1 of the same year)
May 1 (for trips commencing no earlier than September 1 of the same year) - Group Study Visits should not be planned for the July/August interval, when no classes are held on German campuses, or the end-of-year holiday period December 22 to January 8.
For more information about the application procedure and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/page/47777/
4. Re-Invitation Program
The Re-Invitation Program helps the DAAD maintain contact with its former one-year scholarship holders. Former scholarship holders can apply for funding to spend one to three months completing a research or work project at a university or research institute in Germany.
Note: Faculty members who are not DAAD alumni may apply for funding under the recently reinstated Research Visit Grant for Faculty (see below for more information).
Deadlines
- November 15, 2008 (postmark)
- May 15, 2009 (postmark)
For more information about the application procedure, and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=48509
5. Short Term Lectureship
For the Invitation of German Academics to North America
US and Canadian universities may apply for shared financial support to host German scholars in all fields to teach for a period of one to six months. This program is designed to facilitate the process of hosting an international scholar for the purposes of sharing the talents of highly qualified German scholars in specialized fields, filling a curricular gap, or acting as a stimulus for teaching and research in the department concerned.
For a list of current DAAD Short Term Lecturers in Canada and the United States, see DAAD Faculty
Deadlines
Applications are accepted at any time and must be received in Bonn at the DAAD head office at least 10 weeks prior to a review meeting in order to be considered at that meeting.
Meeting dates in 2008 are:
- September 18, 2008 (for applications received by July 9, 2008)
- November 27, 2008 (for applications received by September 17, 2008)
For more information about the application procedure, and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=50133
6. Visiting Professorship Program
Please note that this is a program FOR GERMAN UNIVERSITITES to host an international lecturer.
This program serves to strengthen the internationalization of the educational experience for scholars, host institutions and students by welcoming educators from abroad to university campuses in Germany for guest teaching assignments. The recent development of international degree programs and traditional curricula looking to infuse an international aspect provide opportunities for professors from other countries to contribute their expertise in particular subjects and teaching methods. Courses need not be taught in German.
Deadlines
- July 15, 2008 (for Summer Semester, March - July 2009)
- January 15, 2009 (for Winter Semester, October 2009 - February 2010)
For more information about the program, application procedure, and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=50132
7. Faculty Research Visit Grant
DAAD is pleased to announce that we have reinstated our Research Visit Grant for Faculty.
DAAD offers grants for one to three months in all academic disciplines to scholars at US and Canadian institutions of higher education to pursue research at universities, libraries, archives, institutes or laboratories in Germany. Grants are awarded for specific research projects and cannot be used for travel only, attendance at conferences or conventions, editorial meetings, lecture tours or extended guest professorships.
Deadlines
- November 15, 2008 (postmark)
- May 15, 2009 (postmark) In future years, only the May and November deadlines will apply.
Please apply at least four months before your projected research stay in Germany and not much more than a year ahead. For more information about the program, application procedure, and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=researchvisit
8. DAAD-Cornell University Summer Seminar
“Operatic States: Imagining Community in Music-Drama”
The purpose of the summer seminar is to promote the interdisciplinary study of historical, political, social and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary German affairs and to advance their understanding among scholars in the US and Canada. The program is open to faculty members and recent PhDs in germane social science and cultural studies fields.
In 2009, the seminar will be led by Professor David E. Wellbery at the University of Chicago and will explore the narrative construction of modernity from the Enlightenment to the recent present. Discussions will pivot on the juncture between new developments in the field of narratology and theories and philosophies of history. Analytical and interpretive consequences for the humanities and social sciences will be considered as the seminar probes the narrative organization of social and cultural realities in relation to the contested and sometimes contradictory construal of “modernity.” This seminar thus aims to accommodate the entire range of disciplinary interests bearing on this key concept.
The seminar will take place in June/July 2009.
Deadline : March 1, 2009
For more information about the seminar, application procedure, and materials for download, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=48512
9. Germany Today
Since 1979, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the University of Bonn have co-sponsored an annual information visit on current developments in Germany and Europe for high-level North American policy experts and decision makers.
North American participants in this program are typically senior administrators at leading universities in the US and Canada, policy makers in national and state governments, and other experts in the higher education field.
The program will be in English. All program-related costs in Europe (accommodations, domestic travel and trip to Strasbourg, most meals) will be borne by DAAD. Intercontinental travel is at participants’ expense.
Applicants must have US or Canadian citizenship, a special interest in Germany and transatlantic cooperation, and a relevant professional position. They should not have recently participated in another information trip to Germany.
For more information, please visit: http://www.daad.org/?p=47431
The application deadline generally falls around the beginning of March each year.
10. Contemporary German Literature Grant
For information about DAAD/AICGS Research fellowship Program, check the website: http://www.daad.org/?p=50130
1. Fulbright Scholar
The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
2. Senior Specialist Program
The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. Shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments. Specialists roster candidates are limited to one Specialists grant per calendar year. Applications for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program are accepted on a rolling basis, and peer review of applications is conducted eight times per year.
3. New Century Scholars Program
In March 2001, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, announced the launching of the Fulbright new Century Scholars Program (NCS), one of three new initiatives designed to build on the strengths of the Fulbright Scholar Program by extending its mission and outreach. The New Century Scholars Program will play a vital role in forging new links among scholars and professionals from around the world who will work together to seek solutions to issues and concerns that affect humankind.
Each year approximately 30 outstanding scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad will be selected as New Century Scholars to participate in the program through an open competition. Of the thirty, approximately one-third will be U.S. citizens while the remaining two thirds will be visiting scholars from countries with an operational Fulbright Scholar Program.
NCS will provide a platform for scholars from the US and around the world to engage in debate and dialogue based on multidisciplinary research and to develop new global models for understanding the social context within which nations and communities shape their responses to the many challenges of the 21st century. This particular aspect of the New Century Scholars program is a unique feature that distinguishes it from the core Fulbright Scholar Program.
While NCS Scholars' pursuit of individual research objectives will be intrinsic to a collaborative and comparative analysis of the issues elaborated by the program, prospective applicants should be advised that NCS is not the best vehicle for conducting a traditional research project. Under the guidance of an appointed Distinguished Scholar Leader, NCS Scholars will be challenged to move beyond their individual research and to engage in collaborative, multidisciplinary examination of the announced topic.
To create a platform for collaborative thinking and analysis, NCS combines the traditional Fulbright research exchange experience with a series of three in-person seminar meetings and ongoing virtual communication among the multinational and multidisciplinary participants under the guidance of the NCS Distinguished Scholar Leader. At the end of the program year, NCS Scholars will again convene to share the results of their individual research and collaborative engagement and to develop a set of recommendations for initiatives that will translate the results of their collaborative thinking into tangible impact on the local, regional or global level.
4. Alumni Initiatives Awards Program
The objective of the AIA program is to help translate the individual Fulbright experience into long-term institutional impact.
To this end, the program provides small institutional grants to Fulbright alumni to develop innovative projects that will foster institutionally supported linkages and sustainable, mutually beneficial relationships between the Fulbright scholar's home and host institutions.
There will be no AIA competition for the 2006-2007 academic year. We appreciate your interest in the program. Please check back at this site for future program announcements.
5. International Education Administrators and German Studies Seminars
The seminars are designed to introduce participants to the society, culture and higher education systems of these countries through campus visits, meetings with foreign colleagues and government officials, attendance at cultural events and briefings on education.
For more information about the programs, eligibility, and application information (including deadlines), please visit: http://www.cies.org/
Association of International Educators (NAFSA)
NAFSA is an association of individuals worldwide advancing international education and exchange. NAFSA serves its members, their institutions and organizations, and others engaged in international education and exchange and global workforce development. NAFSA sets and upholds standards of good practice; provides training, professional development, and networking opportunities; and advocates for international education.
NAFSA serves the field of international education—professionals in international education, institutions of higher education, and international and U.S. study abroad students.
For more information about the grants offered by the NAFSA, please visit:
http://www.nafsa.org/about.sec/institutional_grants
