Call of EEGA for applications for thematic workshops and conferences related to the research focus of one or more research areas: migration and mobilities; business strategies and political economies; cultural and intellectual perspectives and identities; and political integration in a changing global arena.

Objectives

EEGA invites for proposals for thematic workshops and conferences, including thematic writing retreats and discussion fora. Applications must be related institutionally to one of the EEGA partner institutions (see below, directly or through existing cooperations) and topically to the research focus of one or more research areas (migration and mobilities; business strategies and political economies; cultural and intellectual perspectives and identities; and political integration in a changing global arena).

EEGA partner institutions: the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (IfL), the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Halle (Saale) (IAMO), the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Leipzig University (UL), the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy (IMW), the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) (MPI).

Eligible to submit proposals are Postdocs from EEGA member institutions and their cooperation partners.

The support offered by EEGA can have the form of either full funding of costs for travel, accommodation, honoraria, catering, equipment and room rent for the workshop, or partial subsidies for events that have secured funding elsewhere.

The application must include: 1. EEGA Application Form 2. CVs (of main organisers) 3. Calculation of expected cost. As one PDF (max. 18 pages, 10 MB) should be submitted to leibniz-eega@ifl-leipzig.de.

More information http://leibniz-eega.de/call-applications-thematic-workshops-conferences/

Limitations

Workshops can take place in Germany or in Eastern Europe in a wider sense. The events should not have less than 5 participants or more than 25, should not exceed 3 days. Start of funding is possible beginning with January 2019.