University of Tartu (Эстония) начинает прием заявок на участие в пятимесячной стажировке в Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies для получения научной степени в области социальных наук. Участие в конкурсе могут принимать граждане Армении, Азербайджана, Беларуси, Грузии, Казахстана, Кыргызстана, Молдовы, Таджикистана, Туркменистана, Украины и Узбекистана.

Цель программы - помочь участникам в развитии их аналитических и исследовательских способностей, создать международную сеть путем участия в программе стажировки в Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies Университета Тарту.

В фокусе программы стажировки - политические и социальные преобразования в Евразии и Восточной Европе в сравнительной перспективе.

The fellowship programme is premised on the idea that there are valuable lessons to be learned from a comparative analysis of political and societal transition in Eurasia and Eastern Europe, and that such analysis has the potential to lead to better policies and positive change. We invite doctoral candidates and young scholars to propose research projects relevant to this general theme. Specific sub-topics on which the host institution is prepared to provide research supervision include:

• Democracy, democratization, elections;
• State- and nation-building, governance, political institutions;
• E-governance, e-society, e-services, e-voting;
• Ethnic diversity, minority politics and policies;
• Political memory, memory politics, transitional justice;
• Identity, values, public opinion;
• European integration, including the Eastern partnership; other regional integration projects and initiatives;
• International relations in Europe and Eurasia;
• International Political Economy of Transition;
• Energy regimes;
• Sovereignty, security and international order;
• Frozen conflicts and de facto states in Eurasia;
• Baltic transition and reform experiences.