Visegrad Scholarships at Open Society Archives in Hungary

The International Visegrad Fund in coop­er­a­tion with the Open Society Archives Budapest offers international awards to selected scholars, researchers or journalists. The fel­low­ships are given on a com­pet­i­tive basis to scholars, artists or journalists who wish to con­duct research at the Open Society Archives (OSA) at the Central European University in Budapest.

The pur­pose of the fund is to facilitate and pro­mote the devel­op­ment of closer coop­er­a­tion among cit­i­zens and insti­tu­tions in the region as well as between the V4 region and other coun­tries, espe­cially in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership regions.

The two-month scholarship grant is 2.000 euros without financial reporting responsibility. Stipends for shorter research periods are pro-rated.

While working on their own subject, fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with OSA researchers and to transform their archival investigation into a full research experience. The fellows are invited to give a final presentation about their research findings at OSA and the ways in which the documents were relevant to their research. The presentations are organized within the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA lecture series and as such former Visegrad alumni and external guests can also attend.

OSA academic and archival staff will assist the fellows in their investigations, facilitate contact with the CEU community, and grant access to the CEU library. Besides its archival analog collections, OSA can also offer access to unique, audio-visual materials related to documentary practices, a special collection of RFE (anti)propaganda books and a growing collection of digital humanities, human rights, archival theory, and philosophy.