CERGE-EI, with financial support provided by the Global Development Network announces a research competition in all fields of the social sciences. Proposals are invited from economists, demographers, political scientists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Projects with a significant commercial aspect or that propose funding the distribution of previous results (such as book preparation) rather than original research are explicitly excluded.
Proposals must be postmarked by 01 July 2008.
The sponsors have identified several priority areas of research. While funding for research in other areas will be provided, projects in these areas will receive priority:
I. Enterprise Development and Behavior including Corporate Governance and Restructuring
II. Labor Markets including Retirement, Social Assistance and Health Economics
III. Globalization including Regional and International Economic Policy Coordination
IV. The Reform Process including Public Finance, Fiscal Burden, and Taxation
V. Education including Educational Policy, Reform, Funding and Outcomes
Funding Details
Maximum funding will be US $20,000 although it is expected that the vast majority of grants awarded will be for substantially smaller amounts. Grants in excess of US $15,000 will be granted only in exceptional cases. The median grant awarded to start in January 2008 was approximately US $9,000. Grants must begin no later than 31 December 2008 and end no later than 31 December 2009, although a six-month no-cost extension request may be made during the year.
Applicants must be residents of any of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo (UNMIK), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Applicants must be resident for the substantial majority of each year in the country from which they are applying although they may be of any nationality or citizenship. Graduate students now outside of the region are encouraged to collaborate with current residents but will not be considered residents unless they provide credible evidence of an intention to return to Central Europe after
completion of their degrees (an example of such evidence would be a binding labor contract with an employer granting leave for study).
Applications may be submitted by individuals or teams of researchers. In the latter case, at least 50% of the researchers must be residents of eligible countries. No grant funds may be used to pay compensation to non-residents. Grant funds may, however, be used to pay travel and other direct costs required to enable participation by non-residents if such participation serves a clear scientific purpose. No applicant can submit or be a part of more than one proposal. Formal application must be made by an institution with which the applicant is affiliated and that will administer funds if awarded. No funds may be paid directly to individuals. Examples of eligible institutions include universities, research institutes or non-profit organizations. Administrating institutions may charge no more than 10% of the total grant as overhead.
In the interest of diversity, no grants will be made to persons who have served as a principal researcher in a GDN Regional Research Competition- funded grant in the past three years.
More at
http://www.cerge- ei.cz/gdn/ regional_ research_ competition/ call_for_ proposals.
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