International scholarship programme for young academics: Exploring the history and culture of German-language Jewish communities in Europe

The Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme was launched in December 2005.

The programme encourages doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers to explore the history and culture of German-language Judaism in Central Europe. The programme offers young and highly qualified academics the opportunity to carry out research for one year in a location of their choice and to present their research projects for discussion within the framework of two seminars during this period. Up to 14 one-year scholarships are envisaged. An international committee of prominent academics will make the selection.

The scholarship programme is one of three components in the Leo Baeck funding programme operated by the “Remembrance and Future” Fund. The funding programme, which aims to disseminate knowledge of the intellectual and cultural heritage of German-Jewish history in schools and universities, is also named after the great German rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck (1873-1956). German President Horst Köhler has assumed patronage of the funding programme.

The Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme was initiated by the Fund. The programme is being implemented jointly by the German National Academic Foundation and the Leo Baeck Institute (London). Three further private foundations - the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Fritz von Thyssen Foundation and the Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation – are also sponsoring the initiative.

If you are interested in a scholarship, please contact Dr. Niels Weidtmann at the German National Academic Foundation by 15 February 2006 at the following email address: leobaeck@studienstiftung.de

For more information go to  www.fonds-ez.de or
http://www.studienstiftung.de/offen/leobaeck.html.

“Remembrance and Future” Fund

The Law on the Creation of a Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” of 2 August 2000 provides for individual and humanitarian payments to former forced labourers and other victims of National Socialism. The Foundation’s capital was made available in equal amounts by the German Industry Foundation Initiative and the Federal Government of Germany. To date, payments totalling EUR 4.2 billion have been made to 1.6 million people in over 100 countries.

EUR 358 million of the Foundation’s capital was set aside to create the “Remembrance and Future” Fund as a grant-giving foundation. About EUR 7 million of the revenues generated each year by the Fund’s capital is chiefly used to promote programmes and projects that build bridges of understanding to Central and Eastern Europe, Israel and USA. To date, almost 700 projects have received support totalling c. EUR 22 million.

Contact

“Remembrance and Future” Fund
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Franka Kuehn
Markgrafenstrasse 12-14
10969 Berlin
Germany

Tel.: +49 (30) 25 92 97 76
Fax: +49 (30) 25 92 97 42
kuehn@zukunftsfonds.de
www.fonds-ez.de


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