Richard Plaschka Grant

The grant is named after the Austrian historian, who died in 2001 and who worked at the University of Vienna as a university professor for Eastern European history from 1967 to 1993. In 1981/1982 he was the rector of the University of Vienna. Moreover he was the head of the Austrian East and Southeast Europe Institute from 1958 to 1988. Throughout his life Richard Plaschka committed himself to a cross-border and joint way dealing with the history in the eastern and south-eastern European area. The grant recipients should place emphasis on cross-border collaboration in their scientific activities.

Applications are open to university lecturers of history whose main focus of academic interest is Austrian history. Recipients of Plaschka grants can work as visiting researchers at university departments and carry out specialist studies in libraries, archives or at research institutions.

Grants are awarded for up to 18 months; follow-up support is scheduled for grant recipients who have consumed at least 12 scholarship months.

Follow-up support includes the following measures:

• Yearly invitation to a professionally relevant symposium
• Yearly endowment for the purchase of specialist literature on the occasion of this symposium
• One-month research grant every three years
• Subscription to a journal on history topics
• Habilitation grant
• Publication allowance

Closing date for application

March 1^st of every year, online application: www.scholarships.at

Further information can be found at grants.at