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 five months at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study. The Fellowship is tied to financial support of up to 50,000 Euros for projects that aim to preserve free scientific exchange. The program is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung and the Marga und Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung.

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

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

• Elçin Aktoprak
  The School of Human Rights Association, Ankara
• Constantin Ardeleanu
  New Europe College, Bucharest
• Gábor Egry
  Institute of Political History, Budapest
• Iryna Kashtalian
  Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
• Ivan Krastev
  Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
• Noémi Lévy-Aksu
  Truth Justice Memory Center Hafiza Merkezi, Istanbul
• Viktoriya Sereda
  Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
• Tatiana Shchyttsova
  European Humanities University, Vilnius
• Olga Shparaga
  European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus, Minsk
• Balázs Trencsényi
  Central European University, Budapest
• Magdalena Waligórska
  Humboldt University of Berlin

• Susanne Frank
  Humboldt University of Berlin
• Julika Griem
  Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen
• Lisa Herzog
  University of Groningen
• Kader Konuk
  TU Dortmund University
• Daniel Schönpflug
  Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• Martin Schulze Wessel
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
  Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

In advisory capacity:

• Henrike Hartmann
  Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover
• Heinz-Rudi Spiegel
  Marga und Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung, Essen