[Bilimsel Haber] Robert Bosch Doctoral Scholarships for future executives from Turkey

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The Max Weber Center offers Robert Bosch Doctoral Scholarships for future
executives from Turkey 
The program is supported by a grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung. 
Scholarships are made available from 1 October 2008 onwards.

Program Goals 
The program aims to 
· intensify contacts between Germany and Turkey
· attract future young executives from Turkey 
· improve the exchange between academic theory and non-academic practice. 

Potential fields for the professional careers of young executives are
government, administration, think tanks, research, media, and the economy.

Max Weber Center

The Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies is a
specialist institution at the University of Erfurt. It combines an Institute
for Advanced Study
with a Graduate School: internationally renowned scholars from different
disciplines (sociology, economics, religious studies, law, philosophy,
theology and history) are appointed as Fellows on a non-permanent basis.
Their work contributes to the research program of the Center
(www.uni-erfurt.de/maxwe). Fellows appointed at the
Center pursue research projects that contribute to the core themes of the
Center and offer expert knowledge to doctoral candidates and to
post-doctoral researchers working in similar fields of research. 

Scholarship
The scholarship amounts to 820 EUR/month and can be granted for up to three
years. Every fellow is entitled to a work station at the Max Weber Center in
Erfurt. Residence in Erfurt and attendance at the Center’s seminars,
workshops, and public lectures are mandatory. 

Requirements
Applications for a Robert Bosch Scholarship at the Center are welcome from
Turkish nationals who are holders of excellent qualifications in any of the
disciplines represented at the Center or in related disciplines. Successful
applicants may register for the degree of Dr. rer. pol, Dr. jur. or Dr.
phil. according to their area of specialization. Applicants should possess
working-level knowledge of German and English. We provide an intensive
language course for all accepted candidates. For this course 400 hours of
German language courses taken prior to application are indispensable.

Application
The deadline for applications is May 15th, 2008. Applications include an
outline of the research proposal (5-10 pages), curriculum vitae, copy of the
certificate of the university degree with final grades, one copy of the
final undergraduate or Master’s Thesis, and a letter of recommendation. 

Applications should be addressed to: 

Dekan des Max-Weber-Kollegs, 
Professor Dr. Hans Joas, Am Hügel
1, D-99084 Erfurt.
For further inquiry please contact 
Dr. Bettina Hollstein 
(Email: bettina.hollstein at uni-erfurt.de).