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Funder name: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Correspondant:
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Address: Vul. Akad. Bohomoltsia 6
Lviv
79005
Country: Ukraine
Telephone: +38-0322-751734, +38-0322-751764
E-mail: info@lvivcenter.org
Website: http://lvivcenter.org/en/
Funding objective / Areas of interest: The Center’s grants program is designed to encourage, promote and support achievements in the sphere of the history of cities in East Central Europe.

The grants are meant to enable scholars to embark into or complete their scientific projects. Every January the Center announces a contest of stipend programs for young scholars.

The Center supports projects offering a wide interpretation of urban history as a discipline which combines different approaches to humanitarian and social sciences.

Grant recipients maintain constant connection with the Center. During the grant program, recipients have to make a presentation of their project in the Center and take part in a seminar for participants of the grant program with involvement of a leading specialist on their topic

Additionally, they are encouraged to write an article based on their completed research; after positive feedback of two reviewers the article is published in English, Ukrainian and Polish in the “Publications – ‘Ece-Urban’” Section of the Center’s site. Residence grant recipients are given the possibility of free lodging at the Center and use of the Center’s resources over the course of a month.
Type of funding available: Grants from the Center for Urban History and the Institute of Human Studies in Vienna;

Residence Grants for PhD students and scholars from all over the world.
Beneficiary type:
Eligibility criteria:
Exclusions / restrictions:
Example grants: In 2014, the Center for Urban History chose one participant of the fellowship program, in cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and four grantees of the Center for the Residence Grant in Lviv. Five scholars were invited to the Center for two-week stays as guest researchers.

Grant Recipients:

I. Fellowship Program of the Center for Urban History and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

Dr Svitlana Potapenko. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Sources Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Research topic: “The Elite of Sloboda Ukraine and the Russian Empire-Building: Integration and Transformation”.

II. Residence Grant Program at the Center for Urban History

Ewa Nizinska. PhD student, History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.”Interwar Sambir from the Perspective of a Historian and a Witness of the Past”.
Dr Kseniya Kuzina. Slavic History Department at the Donetsk National University. “The Commonalities and Particularities in Shaping the Mentality of the Inhabitants of Mining Cities in the Donetsk and Lviv-Volyn Basins (1950-1980s)”.
Ofer Dynes. PhD student, research fellow, Center for Jewish History, New York. “Cryptology and Espionage in Lemberg or the Secret History of Modern Jewish Prose”.
Anastasia Felcher. PhD student, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Italy. “Lviv as UNESCO Heritage Site: Cultural Policies, Heritage Condition and Value Creation within and outside the Historic Center”.
Dr. Yehor Vradiy. Humanities Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy. “Eastern European Cities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century as an Srena of Political Radicalism”.

III. Guest Researchers

Anton Kotenko. PhD student, Central European University, Budapest. “Lviv as a part of Ukraine, 1848-1914”.
Dr Malgorzata Radkiewicz. Institute of Audio Visual Arts, Jagellonian University, Krakow. “Urban Life in Photographs of Former Galicia 1861-1939”.
Prof. Steven Seegel. Department of History, University of Northern Colorado. “Map Wars: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe”.
Dr. Tomasz Dywan. Institute of History, University of Wroclaw. “Lviv’s Urban Infrastructure in the Nineteenth Century (1860-1918)”.
Dr. Pawel Kubicki. Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. “Reconstruction of Memory in Central European Cities: Comparison of Lviv and Wroclaw”.

Lists for other years are available at the website
http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/grants/grants2013/
Application guidelines: Available from Center for Urban History’s Deputy Director, Iryna Matsevko: at +38 032 275 1734, e-mail i.matsevko@lvivcenter.org
Trustees: The Foundation board acts as administrative body of the foundation, represents the latter towards state authorities and courts and observes the fulfillment of the aims stated in the foundation charter.

Members:

Dr. Harald Binder, President
Prof. Dr. Andreas Kappeler, Vice-president
MA Reinhard Schmid-Grimburg

More information about the organizational structure at http://lvivcenter.org/en/organization/
Additional information: NOTE: although expected no details on the below currently available – schemes appear to be currently suspended.
Information sources: http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/grants/

Areas of Interest

History of the Jewish People

Beneficial Areas

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