Institute for Human Sciences Józef Tischner Fellowship 2024

The Józef Tischner Fellowships are open to all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences; a thematic relation to one of the Institute’s research fields is, however, strongly encouraged. The Józef Tischner Junior Fellows will be invited to spend a four-month term between September 2024 and June 2025 at the IWM to pursue their research projects.

Józef Tischner (1931–2000), one of the most influential Polish philosophers of the 20th century and the first chaplain of Solidarno??, was founding president of the IWM. In his memory, fellowships have been awarded to junior researchers from Poland and young Polish-American scholars since 2003.

• Table of Content
• About Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
• IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship
• IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship Courses
• Requirements for IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)

The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) is an institute of advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences. Founded as a place of encounter in 1982 by a young Polish philosopher, Krzysztof Michalski, and two German colleagues in neutral Austria, its initial mission was to create a meeting place for dissenting thinkers of Eastern Europe and prominent scholars from the West. Since then it has promoted intellectual exchange across disciplines, between academia and society, and among regions that now embrace the Global South and North. The IWM is an independent and non... continue reading

IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship

Aim and Benefits of IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship

Postdoctoral candidates––i.e., those who have defended their PhD by the date of the fellowship application deadline––will receive a stipend of EUR 3,000 per month; candidates currently pursuing their doctoral degree will receive a stipend of EUR 2,500 per month to cover accommodation, living expenses, travel, health insurance and any incidental costs related to their stay in Vienna.

In addition, the IWM provides Visiting Fellows with office space, including internet access, in-house research and administrative facilities, as well as other services free of charge. The Visiting Fellows will join the scholarly community and participate in the activities of the Institute. Generally, fellowships start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month.

IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship Courses

• Human and Social sciences

Requirements for IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship Qualification

Candidates for the Józef Tischner Junior Visiting Fellowships

• must be Polish citizens, Polish-American scholars or permanently reside in Poland
• must be enrolled in a doctoral program in the humanities or social sciences or have obtained a PhD in the same fields in the past four years

Józef Tischner Senior Visiting Fellowships are granted by invitation only.

Interview date, Process and Venue for IWM Józef Tischner Fellowship

The finalists will be selected by a jury of experts. Applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision in the spring semester of 2024.

The jury is not required to publicly justify its decisions, nor to provide applicants individual feedback on their applications.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted through the IWM's online application form; we will be unable to consider applications sent via email.

Application materials consist of the following:

• a brief letter of motivation that addresses how the project would benefit from time at the IWM, the connection to the IWM’s mission and research, and concrete research/writing goals during the fellowship
• a project description (max. 550 characters)
• a project proposal (max. 7,500 characters incl. spaces) containing a description of the project’s a) objectives, b) the state of the art, c) methods, and d) a work plan
• a curriculum vitae including a list of publications
• two letters of recommendation from scholars familiar with the applicant’s academic work

All application materials should be in English.

Important! Attached documents must be combined into a single PDF, as the online submission form only allows for one attachment. File names of attachments must use Latin characters. 

For more details visit: IWM website.