ifa Research Award on International Cultural Relations 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Applications are open for the ifa Research Award on International Cultural Relations 2026. The ifa Research Award on International Cultural Relations is aimed in the direction of younger lecturers who discover the importance and effectiveness of soppy energy, worldwide cultural relations and Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy.

Its function is to foster educational reflection and innovation within the area in addition to its relevance to society. The concept is to strengthen Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy, to advertise interdisciplinary trade to broaden views and convey ifa’s worldwide experience into German and worldwide debates. In 25 years, 27 lecturers have been honoured with the award.

The ifa Research Award on International Cultural Relations helps completely different profession ranges, giving award winners a excessive diploma of flexibility. Showcasing award winners and their analysis successfully is the central purpose, proposed and co-developed by way of content material by the award winners themselves. This might take the type of a public lecture, a podcast, a brief video or one other appropriate format. The decisive issue is that the chosen format is properly suited to the respective analysis, the researcher’s private profession state of affairs and the meant visibility.

Award

The ifa Research Award on International Cultural Relations consists of: 

• publicity via presentation of the award winner and his or her analysis (e.g. in a public lecture, a podcast or a brief video)
• printing prices for publication of the work within the ifa publication collection “Kultur und Außenpolitik”, accessible by way of open-entry by Nomos Verlag, topic to evaluate by the writer.

Eligibility

Applications could be submitted for younger lecturers by a recommending professor. Their doctoral or grasp’s thesis should meet the next necessities:

• It has been accomplished inside the final two years (no sooner than 30 April 2024).
• It has acquired not less than magna cum laude (within the case of a doctoral theses) or respectively the second-highest grade.
• It is a scholarly examination of soppy energy, worldwide cultural relations and Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy and their significance and effectiveness.
• It advances the ideas of soppy energy, worldwide cultural relations and Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy. It has sensible relevance or gives applicability of the analysis findings to cultural coverage, to establishments or intercultural apply. It should be the applicant’s personal unbiased and sound achievement. Recommendation by a professor is required.

Application

Submissions are made by the recommending professor by way of e-mail and should embody the next: 

• Complete textual content of the submitted work in PDF format
• Abstract
• Letter of advice from the professor
• Copies of the entire evaluation in German or English or documentation in keeping with native apply of the finished evaluation or grading
• Declaration that the submitted work is your personal unbiased work and the date of completion or publication
• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications, if related
• Applicant’s contact data (e-mail deal with, institutional affiliation) 

The work could also be submitted in German or English. 

The application should be despatched by e-mail in a single single PDF file (max. 15 MB) to: [email protected]. Subject: Submission ifa Research Award – Name of the applicant

For extra data, go to ifa Research Award.