Call for Applications: Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative

Date:

August 4, 2011

The International Higher Education Support Program is pleased to invite applications for Junior and Senior Fellowships of the Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative (CARTI). The program is open to young academics working towards their first doctorate and recent graduates of PhD or equivalent programs in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

CARTI seeks to assist the motivated young academics in crucial early stages of their careers to gain critical competence with the foundational and current scholarship and active involvement in international intellectual exchange and debate in their subject areas. With the support of CARTI, the Fellows engage state-of-the-art resources, theories, methodologies and approaches to their research and teaching in the subjects and areas of importance to the academic and social development in the region.