Starting in 2011, the Gerda Henkel Foundation (www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de) is offering Marie Curie Fellowships in the M4HUMAN (Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities and Islamic studies) programme aimed at supporting outstanding scholars. This funding initiative is co-financed by the European Commission under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. One objective of this fixed-term programme is to increase networking between researchers in the historical humanities at the international level, including researchers in religious, cultural and political sciences under the special programme “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements”.

Research projects in the following fields are supported in particular:

* History
* Prehistory and Early History
* Archaeology
* Art History
* Historic Islamic Studies
* Legal History
* History of Science

Other goals include the promotion of trans-national academic exchange, increasing transnational mobility, facilitating further education and the positive and long-term influencing of the research environment in both origin and destination countries. Research scholarships can be requested for a larger-scale research work or in connection with a research project.

The deadline for applications is June 15, 2012

par Maison de l’Histoire