CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK IN RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES (INREES) FEL¬LOW¬SHIP PROGRAMME

The International Network in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (INREES) invites currently enrolled postgraduate students affiliated with a Finnish university to apply for a 2-month visiting fellowship at the University of Bremen, the University of Södertörn or the University of Tartu in fall 2024.

The INREES programme gives an opportunity for three Finnish early-stage researchers to have a two-month research visit. The multidisciplinary INREES programme provides the visiting fellows a unique opportunity to gather material, write their on-going research projects and produce new scholarly outputs. These fellowships may also launch new scholarly ventures and research projects in collaboration with partners and colleagues from our partner universities.

Funding period: September – December 2024
Deadline for applications: 27 March 2024
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2024

Application documents:
1. Motivation letter: To what university or universities is the applicant applying to, how applicant’s research would benefit from the visit
2. Research plan (max. 4,000 words, including the list of references)
3. CV

Successful applicants will be provided with a monthly scholarship of €2,400 (travel and accommodation are covered from the scholarship) Travel, accommodation and health insurance coverage are to be arranged by prospective fellows themselves, but the programme can
provide help with these.
INREES fellows are expected to consult with the researchers and possible hosts at the receiving university and to participate in relevant seminars and courses.

Applications should be sent to kaarina.aitamurto@helsinki.fi with the reference to INREES in the subject line of email letter.





For more information on the INREES and the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, please see the websites:

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/inrees-research/news-and-events/
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri-institute

You can also contact the following persons:

University of Helsinki: Kaarina Aitamurto, University lecturer, coordinator of the INREES project, Aleksanteri Institute, Kaarina.aitamurto@helsinki.fi

University of Helsinki: Vladimir Gel’man, Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, vladimir.gelman@helsinki.fi

University of Bremen: Heiko Pleines, Vice Director, Research Centre for East European
Studies at the University of Bremen, pleines@uni-bremen.de

Södertörn University: Yulia Gradskova, Research Coordinator, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden yulia.gradskova@sh.se


University of Tartu: Andrey Makarychev, Professor of Regional Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, andrey.makarychev@ut.ee