Update: The Foreign Researchers Grants Programme

The Foreign Researchers Grants Programme

The program is dedicated to academic improvement, namely to PhD. students who prepare their final papers or dedicated researchers preparing working upon their papers/articles. 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 doctoral thesis if that be the case of the candidate. The topic of the projects has to refer to Romania. The grantees will perform their research activities in Romania choosing a period of two months (without any breaks or interruptions).

Deadline for submitting the applications: November 15th, 2017.

Grant's value: 2 000 €/person ICR awards 2 grants on a yearly basis. Length of the grant: 2 months

The field for which the evaluation and selection is performed: research and documentation in fields such as Social sciences (History, Political Science, International Relations, Anthropology, Sociology, Economy, Law), Literature, Cultural patrimony and its management, as stated in the General guidelines of the RCI grants - Article 4. Required application papers: - application form; - resumé; - project's description that will contain no more than five pages written in MS Office, TNR, 12 p., single-spaced; - a copy of the passport or the identity card. - 2 reference letters (one from the supervisor and the second one from another professor, preferably an academic specialized on the proposed topic); - printed copies of studies published in the last two years in a scientific review or a specialized online journal acknowledged in the field chosen by the candidate, written (or translated) into English; - The period for which the grant application is made. All the documents must be drafted in English or Romanian (if the candidate proofs to be fluent both in writing and reading the language).

The address for submitting the documents: Institutul Cultural Român, Aleea Alexandru nr. 38, sector 1, Bucureşti 011 824, Romania

Contact Cătălin Rogojinaru e-mail: catalin.rogojinaru@icr.ro

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The Foreign Researchers Grants Programme

The program is dedicated to academic improvement, namely to PhD. students who prepare their final papers or young researchers preparing working upon their papers/articles. 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 doctoral thesis if that be the case of the candidate. The topic of the projects has to refer to Romania. The grantees will perform their research activities in Romania choosing a period of three months (without any breaks or interruptions).


Deadline for submitting the applications: December 11th, 2015.


Grant's value: 3 000 €/person

ICR awards 4 grants on a yearly basis.

Length of the grant: 3 months


The field for which the evaluation and selection is performed: research and documentation in fields such as Social sciences (History, Political Science, International Relations, Anthropology, Sociology, Economy, Law), Literature, Cultural patrimony and its management, as stated in the General guidelines of the RCI grants - Article 4.

Required application papers:

  • application form;
  • resumé;
  • project's description that will contain no more than five pages written in MS Office, TNR, 12 p., single-spaced;
  • a copy of the passport or the identity card. - 2 reference letters (one from the supervisor and the second one from another professor, preferably an academic specialized on the proposed topic);
  • printed copies of studies published in the last two years in a scientific review or a specialized online journal acknowledged in the field chosen by the candidate, written (or translated) into English;
  • the period for which the grant application is made.

All the documents must be drafted in English or Romanian (if the candidate proofs to be fluent both in writing and reading the language).

The address for submitting the documents:

Institutul Cultural Român, Aleea Alexandru nr. 38, sector 1, Bucureşti 011 824, Romania

Contact: Cătălin Rogojinaru - catalin.rogojinaru@icr.ro


The Foreign Researchers Grants results - 2014-2015 session

The members of the committee: Assistant Professor Ovidiu Bozgan, PhD Assistant Professor Cristina Petrescu, PhD Researcher Carmen Burcea, PhD The grants were awarded to: Michele Lancione (Italian Republic) Roland Clark (Commonwealth of Australia) Filip Šisler (Czech Republic) Antal Berkes (Hungary)

Short description of each scholar:  

1. Michele Lancione (Italian Republic) Employee of the University of Cambridge , Department of Geography , under the postdoctoral urban studies, Mr. Michel Lancione holds a human geography Ph.D at the University of Durham, United Kingdom. The research subject Mr. Lancione is developing in Romania is called "Assembly Marginality in Bucharest ", which completes a vast number of social studies as: "The spectacle of the poor. Or: "Wow!! Awesome. Nice to know that people care!", "Entanglements of faith: Discourses, practices of care and homeless people in an Italian city of Saints".

2. Roland Clark (Commonwealth of Australia)  Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA, holds a cultural studies and a Russian&EE studies Ph.Ds in 2008 at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. The research project in his third Ph.D program in the history field at the University of Pittsburgh aimes Romanian society, entitled "The shepherd of Maglavid: Lived Religion in Interwar Romania" . Former Romanian Cultural Institute Scholar in 2006, Mr. Roland Clark repeatedly investigated aspects of Romanian society, including "Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania", "Nationalism, Ethnotheology and Mysticism in Interwar Romania", etc.

3. Filip Šisler (Czech Republic) Lecturer - Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Slavonic Studies, Department of Slavonic Philology and Balkanology, courses: Contemporary Balkans. His major subject of study is modern history and the subject of his Ph.D research at Charles University in Prague at Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Studies is "Policy of the Romanian state towards its Hungarian minority during the Ceaușescu regime and of the Bulgarian state towards its Turkish minority during the Zhivkov regime". Among his publications, mr. Filip Šisler changeless approached Romanian society, his bachelor thesis, titled "Romanian radical right in the interwar period on the example of the Iron Guard" and master thesis, titled "Czechoslovak-Romanian relations 1944-1948". Antal Berkes (Hungary) PhD student at Université Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in Paris, where he studies history of international relations (guardianship with Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest). His research work that will be fathomed in Romania is "The Optants case: A Hungarian-Romanian dispute", a subject that he approached in other publications and books too: "Optants and Land Reforms after the Paris Peace Treaties", "Small Nations on the Borderlines of Great Powers".



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