ESF supports approximately 50 Exploratory Workshops across all scientific domains.
These small, interactive group sessions are aimed at opening up new directions in research to explore new fields with a potential impact on developments in science. The workshops, which usually last 1-3 days, have a wide participation from across Europe and involve mature scientists as well as young, independent researchers and scholars with leadership potential. The relatively small scale (in terms of people involved) provides an ideal platform for focus on the topic and for all participants to contribute to discussions and plan follow-up collaborative work.  Interdisciplinary topics are greatly encouraged.

The Info-Metrics Institute and the Department of Economics of American University, Washington, DC, are pleased to announce upcoming summer program cours. The primary purpose of the summer program in applied econometrics is to provide students, researchers and faculty with state of the art econometric methods for analyzing data in the Social Sciences. Each day of the week-long course consists of morning lectures that develop the basic concepts and philosophy as well as their applications to real economic problems and data. Each afternoon, these methods will be applied and practiced in the computer lab.

Wenner-Gren Foundation has a variety of grant programs for anthropological research and scholarship that are open to applicants irrespective of nationality or country of residence.

Basic offer: grants for Doctoral Students, grants for Post-Ph.D. Scholars, grants for Non-U.S. Scholars

Nadace OPEN SOCIETY FUND PRAHA z Fondu společnosti ACCENTURE na podporu vzdělávání www.accenture.cz (sekce Kariéra) vypisuje 5. ročník konkurzu na získání doplňkového stipendia pro studium na univerzitách v zemích EU nebo mimo Evropu pro studující magisterských nebo doktorandských studií. O stipendium se mohou ucházet studenti/ky, jejichž studijním oborem je IT, popřípadě IT v kombinaci s ekonomií. Upřednostněni budou žadatelé/ky, kteří dosažené vzdělání uplatní zejména jako konzultanti/ky.

PROLEARN Academy announces the 6th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning. The summer school aims to encourage participants to adopt a critical stance in thinking about the role of technologies in providing opportunities for learners and the potential of these opportunities in terms of learning. Work will centre on three research “Grand Challenges”:
- Connecting learners
- Orchestrating learning
- Contextualising learning environments.

Organizers offer 40 PhD scholarships to cover summer school accommodation, catering and events.

The 5th edition of the Barcelona Summer School in International Politics will take place at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The objective is to offer different short courses on significant topics in international relations and international political economy, taught by experts of international prestige. The school is aimed at graduate students, professors and researchers in the areas of political science, economics, and international relations and international studies who are interested in learning first-hand about the latest advances in research.

COURSES:

* Development and Democracy in Today's World
* The World Economy and International Politics
* Globalization and Society
* The Political Economy of Development
* Explaining Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars

The European Science Foundation (ESF) TransEurope Programme organizes the summer workshop aimet at bring together young European researchers to share and discuss research results together with experienced researchers. The workshop welcomes all contributions that empirically deal with Social Sciences News March 2010 5 different aspects in the development of life course patterns in a globalizing Europe. Contributions to the workshop may be either country-specific or comparative in focus. Papers should primarily be based on quantitative data analyses of most recent available data sets, but qualitative studies of relevant target groups may be also welcome.

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European University invites young scholars from wide variety of disciplines to present in one of three panels: “Space for Time/Time for Space”; “The State, Citizenship, and Transnational Flows”; “Measure for Measure: Knowledge, Culture, and the Third Wave Marketization.” The organizers welcome both empirical and theoretical papers dealing with these topics. Given the theme of the conference, papers demonstrating epistemological awareness and transparency are especially encouraged.

The International Research Center "Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History" at the Humboldt-University Berlin invites scholars to apply for 10 International Research Fellowships (5 stipends for senior scholars and 5 stipends for postdoctoral candidates) for the 2010–2011 academic year as well as for future academic years. The candidates especially from the disciplines of history, anthropology, law, sociology, political science, and area studies are welcome. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level or senior scholars. Postdoctoral candidates should have received their doctorate within the last five years. Proposed projects should employ a historical and transregional perspective. The project should focus not only on work/ labor, but on life-cycle as well. We particularly welcome proposals with an emphasis placed on Europe, Africa, and Asia and those that look at the entanglements between these regions.

The Faculty of Political Sciences in Cluj-Napoca is inviting, academics, PhD students, professionals and researchers to submit research papers and studies as well as book reviews to its journal Studia Politica. The forthcoming issue welcomes papers on all topics that include: democratization, voting behavior, urban studies, migration, youth studies, political parties, comparative politics, European studies, international relations, cultural studies. Comparative papers are especially encouraged.