The conditions for the free circulation of knowledge and the unhindered exchange of scientific hypotheses have deteriorated in recent years around the world. The polarization and rigidifying of public debates are increasing, and societal and political forces are intervening more frequently in research and teaching, to the point that researchers are being persecuted, expelled, or deprived of their liberty. This narrows the scope for scientific controversies, which are the indispensable precondition for academic work. The Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellowship invites researchers who have served the free exchange of knowledge and hypotheses and the open scope for academic controversies to spend three to six months at The New Institute in Hamburg or at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study. The Fellowship is tied to financial support amounting to 50,000 Euros for projects that aim to preserve free scientific exchange. The program is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung and the Marga and Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung. It cooperates with the Einstein Stiftung Berlin.

Applications for the Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellowships are not possible; funding decisions are made solely on the basis of nominations.

For further information on the programme, please contact Vera Kempa.

• Nadia Al-Bagdadi
  Central European University, Vienna/Budapest
• Katharina Biegger
  Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• Kader Konuk
  University Duisburg-Essen
• Ivan Krastev
  Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
• Noémi Lévy-Aksu
  Truth Justice Memory Center Hafiza Merkezi, Istanbul
• Shalini Randeria
  Central European University, Vienna
• Martin Schulze Wessel
  Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
• Magdalena Waligórska
  Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

• Julika Griem
  Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen
• Lisa Herzog
  University of Groningen
• Wilhelm Krull
  The New Institute, Hamburg
• Andrii Portnov
  European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
• Daniel Schönpflug
  Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• Barbara Sheldon
  The New Institute, Hamburg
• Stephan Steinlein
  Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin
• Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
  Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

In advisory capacity:

• Henrike Hartmann
  VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover
• Marion Müller
  Einstein Foundation Berlin
• Heinz-Rudi Spiegel
  Marga und Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung, Essen