Opportunities for scholars at risk

Protecting international scholars who are at risk in their home countries due to war or persecution and giving them research opportunities in Germany is the aim of this new initiative recently launched by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with Germany’s Federal Foreign Office. It was named after Philipp Schwartz, a pathologist of Jewish descent who fled to Switzerland from Nazi Germany and founded the Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wissenschaftler im Ausland (Emergency Association of German Science).

In the first round of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, a total of 38 research and higher education institutions submitted applications to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to accept one or more scholars at risk and integrate them into their own research projects. The University of Bayreuth was among the 18 winning institutions for their proposal on giving an African researcher the opportunity to apply her social science expertise in Bayreuth by joining a project in the field of African studies.

Further information:
Press release, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1 June 2016):
www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/Pressemitteilung-2016-09.html

Scholars at risk who are interested in the Philipp Schwartz Initiative are asked to contact:

I-Hsin Stangl & Thorsten Parchent
International Office – Servicestelle Flucht und Migration; Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30 / ZUV 0.11.5
95447 Bayreuth
Tel.: 0921 / 55-4666
E-Mail: integra@uni-bayreuth.de

Office hours: Monday to Friday 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The University of Bayreuth is a founding member of the German Scholars at Risk (SAR) network, established in Bonn by 20 research and higher education institutions in September 2016. 

The network’s aim is to support scholars at risk and raise awareness about violations of academic freedom.  Administration of the network will remain in the hands of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation until March 2019.

The German network is part of a greater International Scholars at Risk Network, which currently includes the following institutions: the University of Bayreuth, the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Bard College Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, the Berlin School of Economics and Law, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Bielefeld University, Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Bonn, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Technische Universität Dresden, the University of Duisburg-Essen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, the University of Göttingen, Universität Hamburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Cologne, the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, the University of Siegen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Information for applicants from Turkey: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/information-applicants-turkey/