The KIU Research Fellowships are intended to bring together scientists of all career stages from 2 years after completing their doctorate.
Fellows are expected to focus on a project, contribute to regular academic of the KIU with at least one presentation of their own work, and to explore the potential of joint research work both with other fellows and with KIU members. Fellows will closely cooperate and enjoy intellectual exchange with their academic hosts from within the KIU.
- 10 June 2025, 2:30 pm (CET): Online consultation hours – Q&A session on our Research Fellowship Competition
The KIU Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies supports innovative and significant research on topics related to Ukraine. Researchers from various disciplines such as history, social sciences, science and technology studies, economics, media studies, legal studies, cultural studies, conflict studies and related fields are invited to intensively advance their research, broaden their networks and contribute to an emerging vibrant Ukraine-related research environment located at the European University Viadrina, in cooperation with its excellent partner institutions in Berlin. Fellows will enjoy intellectual exchange and international inspiration from the interwoven Polish-German Border region, plus access to the vast resources within the competence network, including the Centre for East European and International Studies Berlin (ZOiS), the Humboldt University Berlin, the Free University Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.
For the winter term 2025 on-site fellowships are offered for committed scientists from all the above-mentioned disciplines. Research topics should be related to the umbrella topic:
- Infrastructural fragmentation, infrastructural resilience – Interdisciplinary perspectives on techno-politics and crisis
Infrastructures are both physical and knowledge-based. Physical infrastructures—such as bridges, power plants, and cable networks—and knowledge infrastructures—including universities and civil society organizations—are increasingly being attacked and destroyed in Ukraine and its occupied territories by russia’s full-scale invasion. As geopolitical uncertainties rise, these attacks are also increasingly affecting other parts of Europe. What does infrastructural resilience mean today? How is it being tested by different forms of attack? How can resilience become preventive rather than merely reactive towards physical and informational attacks? And what role does critical engagement play in shaping infrastructural developments?
The residential research fellowship at European University Viadrina provides a monthly stipend of 2000 € up to 2300 € (depending on the career level) for a period of 3 months plus a one-time travel allowance of up to 600 €. Fellows are offered a workplace in the co-working office of the KIU in Frankfurt (Oder). Fellows are expected to conduct their research on site at the KIU and thus in intensive exchange with other fellows and scholars at the KIU. In addition, fellows will attend the weekly research colloquium and the KIU lecture series, a weekly KIU lunch meeting and are invited to present their own work in the colloquium and at other events. The Viadrina provides support in the search for accommodation in Frankfurt (Oder). The fellowship will start in October 2025 and last until December 2025.
The application portal is now open: KIU Application Portal
Deadline: 25 June 2025
List of potential supervisors is included on the call web-page
For the Guest Professorship Competition – follow this link
The KIU Competence Network is a four-year DAAD-funded project to strengthen Ukraine-related research, teaching, networking and transfer activities. The competence network, initiated and led by the European University Viadrina, includes the ZOiS, the Humboldt Universität of Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.