The CAS SEE fellowship program is an international researcher mobility program that offers up to six-month residencies in Rijeka and the Balkan region countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, and Slovenia).

FELLOWSHIP GOALS

Fellowship program is designed to aim three goals:

• To promote high-level scientific activities on outstanding public discourse of great social importance in Southeast Europe.
• To encourage freedom of research which empowers prerequisites for innovative, intellectual, and scientific development.
• To strengthen transnational and regional scientific cooperation on vital issues such as human rights, ethics, democracy, and public policy, as well as other emergent problems of human coexistence.

FELLOWSHIP BENEFITS

By becoming our Fellow, you will have the following benefits:

• Having your research calendar, conditions, and stimulating multidisciplinary global scholar ambiance.
• Sharing your topics/projects with our former Fellows.
• Receiving monthly stipend with amount dependent on the calls (travel and health care provisions are covered by fellows).

CALLS FOR FELLOWS

Our annual fellowship proports usually count two times a year, Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter, and with each holding a thematic focus ensuring the research programs, the governance standards of CAS SEE agreements thrive – themes are defined by consensus. With the help of the Academic Advisory Board and the structure of the Board of Fellows, CAS SEE invites Honorary Fellows based on their outstanding intellectual and scholarly achievements. Our Honorary Fellows freely choose their research projects and thus significantly contribute to creating an intellectually stimulating atmosphere for all academics linked with CAS SEE.

By inviting outstanding artists and writers, CAS SEE stimulates a pool of individuals who are wanting to trace innovative, and advancing aesthetic discourses on socially relevant topics, both regional and global. CAS SEE secures full access to necessary equipment for fellows as well as an endeavor to provide favorable working conditions for and next to residence. CAS SEE uses its regional team to ensure access to library resources and all pertinent local and regional scientific and networking events. Henceforth, our fellows always have the upfront intellectual access.

As we support, the development of research jointly, our fellowship application has no fee. The fellowship is also open to both junior and senior fellows. We also pay attention to the junior researcher’s engagement: senior researchers have forth, we always encourage junior researchers to partake.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

CAS SEE has no restrictions on country of origin, discipline, or academic position in selecting its fellows. The members of the Academic Advisory Board select the fellows in a highly competitive and independent review based on recommendations made by anonymous peer-reviewers. The Academic Advisory Board then proposes the shortlisted Fellows to the Director. In any meeting, senior fellows accompanying the Director’s development promote and studiously disseminate ideas and values linked to the vision of the Center. In this capacity as “facilitating” the hosting, list of fellows are called upon to initiate debates on issues as discrete as research on Southeast Europe and thus woven ideas/concepts that can cushion the Center’s subsequent work.