Opportunities
On this page we collect current job offers, tenders and research grants that are sent to us by our network.
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Call for entries - Shimon Peres Prize 2025 (Deadline: April 30, 2025)
The Shimon Peres Prize is awarded annually to two outstanding German-Israeli projects. With this award, the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office commemorate the former Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. The prize honors initiatives by young people who are committed to our democratic societies.
The prize is endowed with two awards of 10,000 euros.
How to apply
Applying for the Shimon Peres Prize is easy and can be done via the Application form. You can find the criteria for applications in Hebrew here.
TRN "DENK(T)RÄUME - (Re-)Thinking and Doing Futures" to participate in a collaborative research group (Deadline: May 1, 2025)
How can not only the experience, but also the idea and expectation of radical change inspire social actors to rethink, to create new visions? How can new thinking spaces, alternative languages for an "implementable future" be created?
With the attached outline, we would like to cordially invite you to participate in the design and development of a Young Academy for the university with regard to these questions
for the university. We would first like to ask all interested parties to submit a brief outline for a possible (tandem) project on the topic of around
½-1 page (approx. 500 words).
Announcements of the Polytechnic Society Foundation: Research into Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main (Deadline: May 20, 2025)
The Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize is awarded for an outstanding completed academic work on the Jewish history of Frankfurt. It is endowed with €10,000.
The Arno Lustiger Award honors outstanding work/research projects at various qualification levels of the academic career or independent research projects and is endowed with € 3,000.
Young academics in particular are to be encouraged to actively take up and implement research projects on Frankfurt's Jewish history.
European Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems, July 6 - 11, 2025 - On Jewish Universalism and Particularism
The 15th European Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems will - in its usual broad interdisciplinary perspective - explore the historical, political, religious and cultural dimensions of the paradigm of chosenness
and political, religious and cultural dimensions of the paradigm of chosenness. Jewish history and scriptural interpretation, philosophy and tradition, literature and art are full of bitter disputes about universalism and tribalism - and ultimately also about the question of whether laws exist
the question of whether there are laws and human rights to which even divine authority must adhere.
The Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems 2025 is open to students from all disciplines.
Preference will be given to students from the participating universities in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Innsbruck, Munich, Vienna and Zurich.
(Deadline: May 31, 2025)
Call for Proposals: Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellowship 2025-2026 - Diversifying the Israeli Diaspora (Deadline: May 31, 2025)
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University is pleased to announce the theme for the 2025-2026 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies: Diversifying the Israeli Diaspora.
This hybrid fellowship will feature a virtual workshop series throughout the year, and an in-person conference at Brandeis university.
The 2025-26 fellowship seeks to transcend the typical focus on Israel as a migration-absorbing country in the context of Aliyah, ideologically motivated Jewish immigration. Instead, it aims to explore the dynamic and evolving experiences of Israeli identity beyond Israel, as it intersects with new trends of migration, and multilayered cultures in diverse destinations. It also analyzes the ways this identity intertwines with the increasingly diverse Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian diasporas, as well as other diasporas of Israeli residents without Israeli citizenship.
Call for applications: Marko Feingold Prize for a dissertation in the field of Jewish Studies
The Marko Feingold Prize is aimed at young academics from all disciplines of Jewish Studies, i.e. historians, literary or art scholars, philosophers, linguists, religious scholars, Judaists and others. The prize-worthy dissertation should deal with a topic of Jewish history, culture or religion from a cultural or social science perspective, independent of epoch. (Deadline: June 1, 2025)
NLI Resnick Fellowships for Senior Academics and Emerging Scholars- Call for Applications
The National Library of Israel invites scholars to apply for the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowships. Fellows will be in residence at the National Library in Jerusalem for a period of one to two months during the summer of 2026. (Deadline: June 30, 2025)
- Two Senior Fellowships will be awarded to tenured (or tenure-equivalent) professors.
- Two Emerging Scholar Fellowships will be awarded to academics holding full-time positions who completed their doctoral degrees within the last four years.
Both fellowships provide a generous stipend and a substantial digitization allowance.
The Resnick Fellowships are designed for scholars whose research will significantly benefit from in-person, on-site access to the NLI's unparalleled collections, including:
- Judaica collection
- Israel collection
- Islam and the Middle East
- Humanities
- Israeli and Jewish Music
- The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Both fellowships are open to academics who are not residents of Israel. Further Information
The "Forum Junge Wissenschaft" is a series of events organized by the Katholische Akademie in Berlin e.V., the Guardini Stiftung e.V. and the Görres-Gesellschaft
"Call for Thesis" (Deadline: July 15, 2025)
The "Forum Junge Wissenschaft" format is intended to give students the opportunity twice a year to present their theses to an audience in an academic but non-university setting at the Catholic Academy in Berlin. We are looking for theses with a religious focus that have already been completed. The selected theses will be presented in spring.
Thyssen reading time
Six months of support based on the no gain, no loss funding model for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, especially those with particularly strong administrative responsibilities at German universities (such as rectors or presidents, professors, deans, heads of clusters of excellence). (Deadline: July 31, 2025)