ThyssenLesezeit
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation has announced the ThyssenLesezeit. This funding is provided to support humanities scholars and social scientists who wish to end a particularly heavy administrative commitment and resume their research activities. In order to support this resumption of research activities, the foundation is offering funding for a six-month reading period with chair representation, during which academics are released from their university teaching commitments to concentrate on in-depth reading.
This funding is designed as a tandem model. This means that younger junior academics are also funded to stand in for the professorship during the six-month period.
Applications can be submitted until August 30, 2024.
Details: https://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/en/funding/types-of-support/thyssenlesezeit/