Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

Junior scholars who are affiliated with an accredited European university, who have received the Ph.D. degree within five years of the date of application, and who do not hold full-time salaried positions may apply for postdoctoral research fellowships. All applicants must have their doctoral degree in hand or submit proof of the completion of their thesis defense. Postdoctoral research fellowships are given for no more than two years. The maximum amount of each grant is EUR21,000 per year. Only applications deemed to be truly outstanding will be awarded two-year fellowships.

Preference will be given to postdoctoral fellows who are affiliated with and supported by an established center or association of Chinese Studies other than the one at which they completed the Ph.D. PD grants may be used either to revise a doctoral dissertation for publication or to start a new research project.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

1. The Foundation’s grants provide support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences.
2. Applications should not exceed the limits for grant amounts and grant duration as stated in the program descriptions given above.
3. Project directors who are currently receiving Foundation aid are ineligible to apply.
4. The Foundation encourages applications with matching funds from other sources. Please inform the Foundation if applying for financial assistance from other organizations at the same time. If a project director receives aid from another source after the Foundation has already decided to support the project, please inform the Foundation within 7 days after being informed by the alternate funding organization.
5. For projects that exceed one year, please provide a year-by-year breakdown of budget expenditures.
6. When preparing itemized budgets, please use Euros as the unit of currency.
7. Funding is not available for university administrative expenses (including overhead or endowments) or the purchase of equipment.
8. Funds for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships may not be used to cover publication costs. Grantees anticipating the need for additional funding to cover such costs are welcome to apply for one of the Foundation’s Publication Subsidies grants.
9. The Foundation does not supply funding for salaries of scholars involved in grant projects, or to cover teaching relief. Exceptions can be made for research assistants and technical staff.
10. The Foundation reserves the right to post project abstracts and reports on its websites.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

1. Applications must be submitted to our online application database. E-mail and paper applications will not be accepted. Applications may be submitted every year from December 1 to January 15 of the following year. To begin the application process, please click here).
2. Each application should include the following steps, which includes the on-line submission of the applicant’s personal information, basic project data, and project abstract. In addition, you may only submit one PDF file. Please combine all relevant documents into a file no larger than 5 MB.

A. Items to be submitted with the electronic application

(1)Detailed project description (approximately 7 pages, including one-page bibliographic essay on sources used, as well as a bibliography of primary sources and secondary scholarship related to the dissertation not exceeding 70 items, any format acceptable);

(2)Itemized budget;

(3)Letter of agreement from dapartment head of applicant's affiliated institution.

(4)Curriculum vitae.

B. Items to be mailed directly to the Foundation

(1)Two letters of recommendation, including one by the dissertation advisor (submitted in sealed envelopes signed by the recommending professor);

3. Applicants should apply directly to the Foundation's Taipei headquarters:

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

13F 65 Tun Hua South Rd., Sec. 2
Taipei, Taiwan 106 ROC

Tel: +886-2-2704-5333 ext.19

Fax: +886-2-2701-6762
E-mail: maggielin@cckf.org.tw