The Civil Society Scholar Awards (CSSA) support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and university faculty to access resources that enrich socially engaged research and critical scholarship in their home country or region.
The awards support activities such as fieldwork (data collection); research visits to libraries, archives, or universities; course\/curriculum development; and international collaborations leading to peer-reviewed publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eligibility Criteria
The awards are open to the following academic populations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 doctoral students of eligible fields studying at accredited universities inside or outside of their home country
\u2013 full-time faculty members teaching at universities in their home country<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Candidates must be citizens of the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Kosovo, Laos, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar\/Burma, Nepal, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, or Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 Project duration: between two to nine months
\u2013 Eligible dates: August 1, 2016\u2013August 31, 2017
\u2013 Maximum funding requests: $10,000 for doctoral students; $15,000 for faculty members<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The awards support short-term, international academic projects, such as: fieldwork (data collection); research visits to libraries, archives, or universities; course\/curriculum development; and international research collaborations leading to peer-reviewed publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Requests for support for first-year tuition and fees only will be considered on the basis of a clearly demonstrated need from doctoral students who have gained admission to universities outside of their home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Online Applications The Civil Society Scholar Awards (CSSA) support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-grant-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Applicants are strongly advised to submit their application online<\/a>.
For more information, please visit https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/civil-society-scholar-awards-20151125<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"