Iris Fischlmayr DISSERTATION Award 2021

Outline

The Johannes Kepler University Linz is pleased to announce an award of 2,500 Euros – for the promotion of an outstanding, completed, diversity-related dissertation in the fields of social- and economic sciences, law, and/or medical sciences.

What is funded

 Completed outstanding disseration

Duration

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Eligibility

Application requirements:

Graduates whose diversity-related dissertation was submitted in the fields of social- and economic sciences, law, and/or medical sciences, received “excellent” (“Sehr gut”) grading and was approved after January 1^st, 2019, are invited to apply.

Information on whether the thesis has already been submitted to another funding institution, has already been awarded a prize or received alternative funding must be disclosed upon application.

Documents to be submitted:

• informal application including CV and certificates
• dissertation and review
• thesis abstract (1 page)
• short letter of recommendation from the supervisor on the thesis’ funding eligibility (1 page max.)

Grant: Dissertation Award of 2,500 Euros

Submission deadline:

Complete documents are to be submitted electronically to Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Department for Human Resource Development, Gender & Diversity Management, Gender & Diversity Management Unit, gd@jku.at by May 31^st, 2021. Any submissions after this date will not be considered.

No claims can be made on the basis of this call for applications or on the basis of an application.

Conferring of awards:

After closing of the call, conferment/non-conferment of awards is decided at the discretion of an expert jury chaired by the Vice-Rector for Research, Gender and Diversity of Johannes Kepler University Linz; all complete applications received before the end of the deadline will be considered. During the decision process the jury reserves the right to hear the applicant and/or seek internal and/or external expertise at its own discretion, if found necessary.

In all probability, a decision on the awards and the granting/non-granting of the scholarship is scheduled to be made in September 2021; applicants will be notified in written form.

The awards ceremony is expected to be held in the December of 2021 and will be organized in the setting of a public event.