The Gerda Henkel Foundation was founded in June 1976 by Lisa Maskell in memory of her mother Gerda Henkel as a private, non-profit, grant-making organisation dedicated to fostering research in the humanities. The Foundation has its headquarters in Düsseldorf and is active in Germany and abroad. Starting in 2011, the Gerda Henkel Foundation is offering

Marie Curie Fellowships

in the M4HUMAN programme aimed at supporting outstanding scholars.

M4HUMAN PROGRAMME - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities including Islamic studies co-financed by the European Commission under the EU's seventh framework programme for research.

FUNDING:

History, Prehistory and Early History, Archaeology, Art History, Historic Islamic Studies, Legal History, Historical studies, religious, cultural and political sciences under the special programme "Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements".

ELIGIBILITY:

The programme provides 24-month research grants for two categories of researchers:

- Experienced researchers (holding a doctorate or with 4 to 10 years of comparable and proven research experience)

- Senior researchers (holding post-doctoral qualifications, a comparable academic ranking, or with more than 10 years of comparable and proven research experience).

PRECONDITION:

A precondition for the application is an element of mobility (either incoming or outgoing); i.e. a stay at a host research institute selected by the applicant, situated in a country other than the country of origin and lasting for at least 70% of the 24-month period covered by the grant.

For further information (including the required application forms, deadlines and available endowments), please refer to our homepage at: www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/eng

The deadline for appliations is 30 June, 2011.

Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Malkastenstrasse 15

D-40211 Düsseldorf - Germany

Telefon:

Telefax: +49 (0)211 936524-44

E-Mail: info@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/eng