Aim of the project:

Different leading European academic institutions collaborate to join expertise and offer an international program to train the next generation of leaders in sustainability and transformation research.  

Type of action:

Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership provides an intensive high-end training with four seminars in two years that broaden the research competencies of postdocs and promote their qualifications towards transdisciplinary leadership. The program also offers seed funding (e.g. for stakeholder meetings or proposal writing activities) to small groups of participants, who plan to initiate research collaborations. Furthermore, an active network of current and former participants of the program will be established.

Participation:

The program aims at postdocs from across Europe who want to make an impact on the transformation towards a sustainable society and advance the complementarity of natural science, social sciences and the humanities through their research. Applicants should be early-career researchers at an academic institution from one of the European countries, including from Georgia.

Dates and locations:

A course run consists of four seminars (three full days each) over a period of two years. Each seminar will take place at one of the four academic centres and focus on their respective expertise. Details for the first course run are:

• 1st seminar from 10th to 12th October 2018 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ Germany
• 2nd seminar from 7th to 9th February 2019 at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg/ Germany
• 3rd seminar from 16th to 18th October 2019 at the Stockholm Resilience Centre/ Sweden
• 4th seminar from 18th to 20th March 2020 at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) in Rotterdam/ The Netherlands

 

Deadline for sending applications: 15.04.2018

Contact at Robert Bosch Foundation:

Andrea Bruhn

Project Manager 

Tel: +49 711 46084-610