Deadline: 10 August 2013
Open to: individual researchers
Fellowship: travel (450€) and accommodation costs covered
Description
The EUROLAB at the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne is a European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research established in 1996 by Dr. h.c. Ekkehard Mochmann as access facility to the data in the archive holdings from all fields of empirical social research.
From 2011 the EUROLAB offers support for individual researchers and research groups who want to work at the EUROLAB in Cologne, e.g. during sabbaticals or research fellowships, or within specific research projects. EUROLAB is pleased to invite applications for one month research visits. Successful candidates will have:
- access to the more than 5.000 data sets and data collections at GESIS
- technical and research support
- individual working place with PC including a comprehensive program library for statistical analyses with most recent software releases.
- access to related publications based on these data bases via information systems in the GESIS Library with about 20.000 volumes and more than 140 continuously held national and international social science journals
Furthermore, visitors can access facilities at the University of Cologne such as libraries, the university restaurant (Mensa) and shopping facilities.
Fellowship
Fellows will have their accommodation and travel costs covered (economy class, up to 450 Euros) by GESIS.
Eligibility
Individual researchers, who want to work on survey data stored in the GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences, may apply for support to access EUROLAB for maximum one month between November 2013 and March 2014.
Application
To apply, please complete the application form and send it by e-mail to eurolab@gesis.org. The deadline for applications is 10 August 2013. An international selection panel will evaluate the applications on a competitive basis. The applications will be assessed depending on the expected scientific merits.
For more information please visit the official website.
