The Conference Group for Central European History (CGCEH) invites applications from North American doctoral candidates (ABD) and recent PhDs in Central European history for travel and research grants.

The Milena Jesenska Fellowship program of the Insitute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, is geared towards European journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media. Application deadline: March 31, 2009.

The Paul Celan Fellowship program of the Insitute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, supports East-West, West-East and East-East translations of canonical texts as well as contemporary key works in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies. Special emphasis is put on translations of relevant works written by East European authors and/or by female scholars. Application deadline: March 31, 2009.

The Institutul Cultural Român (ICR) awards grants for foreign researchers and for cultural journalists. The programme for researchers is dedicated to academic improvement, aiming undergraduate and graduate students (MA and PhD) who prepare their final papers (dissertations, theses) with a topic dealing with Romania. The selection is performed by an independent committee of professionals, based on an application file that must contain, among other papers, a reference letter from the supervisor of the BA or MA dissertation or doctoral thesis.
The aim of the programme for cultural journalists is promoting the Romanian cultural phenomenon in the foreign media. Therefore, the Romanian Cultural Institute awards grants to foreign cultural journalists who submit working projects dealing with Romanian and Romanian culture.
Application deadline: May 15, 2009.