BGHS

Mobility Scholarships for Flexible Research Trips Abroad

The Graduate School awards every year up to five mobility scholarships for research trips abroad. These scholarships are available to Doctoral Candidates at the BGHS who want to spend 3 to 9 months at a university or non-university research institute abroad in order to both push forward their research project and to establish long-term contacts with foreign scholars.

Target group:

This scholarship programme is directed exclusively at Doctoral Candidates who have registered for the doctoral programme in history or sociology, are members of the BGHS but are not the recipients of a scholarship from the Graduate School.* Field researches and archival trips taking a longer period of time should not be undertaken during this research trip.

Duration/Length of Scholarships:

Mobility scholarships run for 3 to 9 months and cannot be awarded on a shorter-term basis. The scholarships can be extended to the full 9 months only in exceptional cases (upon application). In exceptional, well-founded cases the prescribed period of the doctoral course of 3 years can be extended by the length of this research trip abroad.

Value of scholarships:

The scholarships are funded by the BGHS and consist of a monthly sum of ? 1,300. In exceptional circumstances, travel expenses and programme fees can be granted in addition to the scholarship (upon application).

Application documents

These documents have to be submitted to the BGHS Office:

• Letter of motivation of between 400 to 800 words (especially presentation of the networking at the institute abroad as distinct from a research/archive trip)
• Curriculum Vitae (personal data sheet)
• Statement of your supervisor
• Invitation of a scientist from abroad (letter of acceptance)
• Detailed plan for your research during your stay abroad, including timetable (in agreement with the inviting scientist)
• Confirmation of the host-institute abroad/the inviting scientist about a workstation with a computer
• Calculation of costs (journey, registration fee if necessary, health insurance, etc.)

The application documents have to be mailed to bghs@uni-bielefeld.de. The executive board of the BGHS will decide about the approval of the scholarship especially according to the available budget.

*In case of a stay at a university or non-university institute abroad Scholarship holders of the BGHS can receive an extra charge in accordance with the same requirements.