FMSH: Trilateral “Villa Vigoni” Workshops (France, Italy, Germany)

GrantsTrilateral “Villa Vigoni” workshops (France, Germany, Italy), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris, France. Deadline: 13 April 2025.

In order to promote the exchange between researchers active in France, Germany, and Italy and the construction of scientific networks within the humanities and social sciences, as well as to explicitly encourage the use of French, German, and Italian as scientific languages, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and the Villa Vigoni have set up the “Trilateral Workshops” program. Applications for this program can come from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. They will be selected on the basis of a competitive evaluation procedure.

Each trilateral workshop consists of a series of three scientific meetings, organized at the rate of one meeting per year. They will all take place at Villa Vigoni (located on the shores of Lake Como). The participants in the Workshops form a core group of 12 (minimum) to 16 (maximum) researchers coming, if possible in a balanced way, from the three partner countries and from different institutions within the same country. This group will remain the same for all meetings.

The submission of the project and the coordination of each workshop are ensured by a group of three researchers active respectively in France, Germany and Italy. The project leaders guarantee that they have an institutional affiliation (university, research organization, etc.) for the duration of the proposed project.

The participation of researchers at the beginning of their career is highly desirable. In order to facilitate the submission of a project, postdocs (up to 6 years after the defense of the thesis) may choose to submit their application in a reduced format. This variant is only possible if at least two of the three project leaders and at least half of the participants are in the post-doctoral phase defined above. In this case, the conditions are as follows: support for two years for two (instead of three) meetings and with a group of 9 (minimum) to 12 (maximum) participants; each of the three partner countries must be represented by at least 2 (if there are more than 9 participants, by at least 3) persons.

ReDICo 2025: Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality (Germany but Online)

ConferencesDigital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality, ReDICo, Germany but online, 23-24 June 2025. Deadline for abstract: 28 February 2025.

Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality – The Fourth ReDICo Conference Online, 23-24 June 2025. In this conference organizers would like to bring together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality, not least its relationship to interculturality. They are, thus, interested in wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective.

It is intended that a selection of the papers presented will be published following a peer review process in book form, funding pending, with the transcript Publishing House in the Series “Studies in Digital Interculturality”. The conference is without fees, completely online and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Keynote speakers that have already been confirmed include Prof. Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg), Associate Prof. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University), Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles).

Bielefield U: IAS Research Group Funding 2024-26 (Germany)

FellowshipsVisiting groups (not individuals), Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany. Deadline: 24 April 2025.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) is Bielefeld University’s Institute for Advanced Study. It offers opportunities—with respect to time, space, and funding—for outstanding interdisciplinary research. ZiF is open to scholars from all disciplines post-PhD, based in Germany and abroad. They can propose a research project to be conducted with a curated group of (preferably) international colleagues.

In support of the work of groups on-site in Bielefeld, ZiF allocates financial resources and provides infrastructure as well as organisational support. If their collaborative application is successful, ZiF will host these groups on its campus. Visiting Groups can, for example, explore new research topics and partnerships, finalise interdisciplinary publications or conduct small research projects during their stay at ZiF. Visiting Groups can, for example, explore new research topics and partnerships, finalise interdisciplinary publications or conduct small research projects during their stay at ZiF.

• Duration: one stay at ZiF of a duration between one and three months
• Funding Amount: up to EUR 50,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation, workshops and/or conferences on-site; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered, but an allowance of 1.000 EUR per month will be paid as a compensation for any additional costs
• Timing: Projects can commence approximately 12 months after the deadline.

Osnabrück U: Postdoc in Futures of Migration (Germany)

Postdocs

Postdoc in Futures of Migration, Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany. Deadline: 7 January 2025.

As part of the research area ‘Futures of Migration’ (FuturMig) funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Osnabrück University is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher.

The Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, the Center for Global Migration Research (CeMig) at the Georg August University Göttingen, the Center for Educational Integration (ZBI) at the University of Hildesheim, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), Brunswig, and the Friedland Museum are cooperating in the Lower Saxony research area ‘FuturMig’ (2025–2029).

‘FuturMig’ deals with ideas and strategies for shaping the future of societies that are shaped by migration and diversity in political, media, and societal debates, fields of practice and migration research. ‘FuturMig’ is reviewing the academic state of the art, is planning the establishment of an international guest professorship and the development of a follow-up collaborative research initiative. ‘FuturMig’ focuses in particular on educational contexts – early childhood institutions, schools, universities, civil society initiatives, museums and memorials.

Constructing ICD #14: Intercultural Case Management: Addressing Discrimination to Empower Migrants

Constructing ICDThe next issue of Constructing intercultural Dialogues is now available, “Intercultural Case Management: Addressing Discrimination to Empower Migrants” by Fatemeh Hippler.

Case management in the context of migration refers to a structured process that helps migrants navigate the complexities of resettlement, integration, and legal processes. Key components include assessment, planning, and monitoring. A crucial component of case management is empowerment, which involves helping migrants build the skills and confidence needed to navigate their new environment independently over time. It fosters autonomy and self-sufficiency, allowing migrants to take control of their lives and decisions.

As a reminder, the goal of this series is to provide concrete examples of how actual people have managed to organize and hold intercultural dialogues, so that others may be inspired to do the same. As with other CID series, these may be downloaded for free. Click on the thumbnail to download the PDF.

Constructing ICD 14: Intercultural Case Management: Addressing Discrimination to Empower MigrantsHippler, F. (2024). Intercultural case management: Addressing discrimination to empower migrants. Constructing Intercultural Dialogues, 14. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/constructing-icd-14.pdf

If you have a case study you would like to share, send an email to the series editor, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.


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DFG Fellowships and Funding for Refugee Researchers (Germany)

Fellowships

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) supports researchers who have fled their home countries by making it easier for them to join research projects and apply for funding under the Walter Benjamin Programme. Deadline: open.

The following requirements must be met in principle:

  • The person has not been outside their home country for more than three years at the time of application and

  • they have residential status in connection with an asylum procedure within the EU and are recognised as being at risk, or

  • in lieu of proof of residency status, they are able to present credible third-party evidence of being at risk no more than 12 months prior to application.

This way, the DFG also underlines its solidarity with researchers from Ukraine and Russia who had to flee their home country due to the current war situation triggered by the Russian attack. By integrating them swiftly in the German research system, the aim is to enable them to maintain continuity in their academic work.

In acute crisis situations, proposals can be submitted without proof of the respective status after consultation with the DFG.

Individuals are only eligible for sponsorship if they have not previously been sponsored through the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office or under any comparable programme for integration in the academic system or have been employed in the German academic system via a fellowship or a position for a total of two years or more.

Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society Fellowships 2026/27 (Germany)

FellowshipsCall for applications: Fellowships at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 2026-27. Deadline: 15 January 2025.

The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society at Leuphana University Lüneburg invites applications for 12-month fellowships in residence for 2026/27 starting April 1, 2026 and ending March 31, 2027. The research programme aims at countering a discourse of no alternatives. It fosters engaged scholarship to uncover, support, and multiply modes of social potentialization by questioning existing certainties and therefore activating new possibilities.

They invite researchers to investigate the historical, contemporary, socio-cultural, epistemological, political-economic, legal, and technical-scientific conditions of living together in a globalized, entangled world.

CrossCulture Programme Fellowships (Germany)

FellowshipsCrossCulture Programme Fellowships, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), Germany. Deadline: 5 December 2024.

Each year around 55 Fellowship recipients from host organisations in Germany or in one of the over 40 partner countries gain experience in intercultural networks. Through occupational stays abroad, the programme enables and promotes actors from the cultural, educational, human rights, sustainability, scientific, and media sector to work together. The goal of the CrossCulture Programme is to strengthen lasting civil society networks between Germany and countries across the globe. The programme was launched in 2005 and now counts more than 1.100 alumni to its ever-growing network.

With the CCP Fellowships, the CrossCulture Programme (CCP) funds professionals and committed volunteers from more than 40 countries each year. During two to three months of work-related stays in host organisations in Germany or CCP partner countries, participants deepen their expertise, establish new contacts and acquire intercultural skills. In turn, the host organisations benefit from the expertise, regional knowledge and networks of the CCP Fellows. Participants can also attend transcultural workshops, networking and professional events hosted by the CCP. After returning to their daily working lives, participants then bring the experience they have gained into their home organisation.

CFP Meth@Mig: Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research (Germany)

ConferencesCall for submissions: 4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop: Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany, 3-4 April 2025. Deadline: 8 December 2024.

In migration research, as in social research more generally, the role of participants is critical in shaping both the data collected and the knowledge generated from it. Depending on the methodological approach and research question, participants may be seen as mere providers of information, or be involved as more active contributors and co-creators of knowledge. How researchers engage with participants profoundly influences the results, ethical considerations, and validity of studies. This also holds true with respect to long-established qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-mode approaches, but also considering methods building on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and digital behavioral data, where the continuum may run from the collection of digital traces of individuals that are not even aware of being studied to their voluntary, informed data donations.

Therefore, this workshop will focus on the role that participants may play in any stage of the research cycle, spanning from a project’s design phase to the dissemination of its results. This workshop aims to facilitate a discussion on how different methodologies influence the role of participants and gain insight into the ethical challenges that arise when involving or excluding them at different stages.

Possible topics that might be addressed include (without being limited to them):

  • Scientific Quality: How does the role of participants in research have an impact on overall scientific quality, including validity and reliability of the data and research results, and the rigor of data collection, analysis, or interpretation?

  • Ethical Considerations: What kind of complex ethical responsibilities (e.g., who is responsible for protecting participants and avoiding potential harm) and complex power relations (e.g., persistence of the power dynamics even though participants are actively involved in research) arise depending on the role of participants in research?

  • Practical Issues: What practical issues arise if participants have varying levels of engagement in the research process, including questions of dataset ownership, data management and protection, and entitlement to authorship of research outputs?

  • Impact of Methodological Innovation: What new complexities arise with the use of emerging methodologies and data sources?

Organizers welcome contributions from any methodological school or angle (e.g., qualitative, survey-based, mixed, relying on digital trace data) that critically explore the role of participants in research, examining the ethical and methodological implications of treating participants as data providers versus involving participants as active collaborators in the research process. A clear methodological focus is required for all contributions.

Jane Yau Profile

Profiles

Jane Yau is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Germany.

Jane YauShe is a member of the Global Young Academy and co-led the Science Education for Youth and UN SDGs working groups from 2022-24. She is also a member of the International Science Council and an expert member of the Science Education consultative working group. In addition, she is an Advisory Committee member of the Smithsonian Science Education Center based in Washington DC. Previously, she was a Visiting Researcher at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg.

She is currently the Program Manager of a Horizon Europe project – GREAT Realising Effective and Affective Transformation (2023-26), that aims to use games as an effective global communication channel between citizens and policy-makers. Via games, citizens’ attitudes on climate policies are collected with the aim of supporting policy-makers to make policies more suited to their needs. She has published over 80 articles in Mobile Learning, Learning Analytics and Educational Technologies.


Work for CID:

Jane Yau is participating in an expert group organized by the Center.