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    Open Calls, Social Development

    ERSTE Foundation Fellowship for Social Research – Open call

    Labour markets and employment in Central and Eastern Europe Many European societies face various challenges when it comes to employment and labour market. Countries in CEE have some of the lowest labour market participation rates in Europe. What does this mean for the capacity of these countries to tackle future economic, social and demographic changes? [...]more

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    Culture, Open Calls

    Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy

    Call for applications 2012 open until 30 April 2012 ERSTE Foundation offers four fellowships for young artists and four fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2012. In 2012, the participants [...]more
  • Social Impact Award 2012

    ERSTE Foundation, Open Calls, Social Development

    Push the button, change the world!

    Are you a student from Austria, Czech Republic or Romania? Do you have entrepreneurial spirit and ideas and you would like to make a contribution to the society? Now you have the chance to be part of a group of motivated young people with the same interests, to further build up your business and managerial [...]more
  • Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists

    Europe, Open Calls

    Open Call: Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists 2012/2013

    The Milena Jesenská Fellowship program offers European journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice. Journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey are also eligible to apply. Applicants are asked to relate their proposals to one of the main research fields of the IWM [...]more
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    Europe, Open Calls

    Open Call: School Network ACES starts new project contest

      “Reality Check – How we perceive and construct the world through media” is the theme of this year’s call for cross-border school projects. The competition is organised by the Academy of Central European Schools – aces, one of the largest international school networks in the region. Mass media – and especially digital media – [...]more
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    Europe, Open Calls

    Applications Open for 2012 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

    Working on an investigation about communities in the Balkans? Don’t miss your chance to scoop a €2,000 journalism bursary, receive travel and research expenses and attend career development seminars in Vienna and Skopje. Experienced journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are invited to apply for the sixth [...]more
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    Culture, Open Calls

    “I know no weekend”. Socially Committed Art in Eastern Europe

    Call for Art Students Application Deadline: 31 January  2012 Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986, Germany) is now considered as one of the most influential artists of the 21st Century, though or because his work produced controversial debates about contemporary art and the socio-political commitment of artists in the 1970s and 1980s. Today his approach seems [...]more
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    Culture, Open Calls

    PATTERNS Lectures – Open Call until 19 March

    Call for submission of proposals for university courses PATTERNS Lectures is launching a new call to encourage the development of university courses in the fields of art history, cultural studies and cultural sciences. The call addresses lecturers at public universities in Central and South Eastern Europe who share PATTERNS’ areas of interest and are interested [...]more
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    Culture, Open Calls

    Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators – Open Call

    “Traduttore – traditore, so they say. We all do: translate! This is now the law of survival.” (Norman Manea)   The Institute for Human Sciences and ERSTE Foundation encourage translators in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies to apply for the prestigious Paul Celan Fellowship. The program aims to overcome deficits and asymmetries in [...]more
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    Culture, Open Calls

    Catalyst Award 2011

    This year, for the second time, the Catalyst Award, founded by tranzit. hu, will be handed out. The award is given to individuals, projects, and initiatives which, directly or indirectly, have an impact on the contemporary art scene – they contribute to the presentation, discussion and mediation of art with their progressive approach of form [...]more
  • Reporter '12

    Europe, Open Calls

    reporter'12 Ost: Call for applications

      Competition for young journalists Apply until 7 November 2011! For the second time, ERSTE Foundation supports the competition for young journalists Reporter’12 Ost of the Austrian daily Die Presse. Young people with journalistic ambitions are invited to send their  proposals for interesting stories from Southeastern Europe until 7 November. The candidates and their proposals are presented [...]more
  • Artists-in-Residence Call 2012

    Culture, Open Calls

    AiR quartier21: Call for Applications 2012

       Artists-in-Residence programme of tranzit and ERSTE Foundation at quartier21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna tranzit is a network of four independent non-profit organisations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic. Since 2002 tranzit has been developing artistic and cultural activities with a critical approach, fostering a permanent dialectic between local and global culture. The [...]more