Scholarships for Faculty

Invitations are made for scholars outside of the EU member states in the field of journalism and mass communication to apply to spend time at one or more of the partner institutions of the Erasmus Mundus programme, Journalism and Media within Globalisation: The European Perspective.

Funding of up to 13,000 euros for a stay of three months is available for visiting the Danish School of Journalism, Aarhus; the Departments of Media Studies and Social Science at Aarhus University; the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University, London; Institute for Media and Communication, University of Amsterdam; Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Hamburg; and the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University, Wales.

Applications are invited from scholars whose research interests relate to the core values of the programme and who can contribute to the teaching of the courses offered. The consortia members are particularly interested in building further links with partner institutions outside the European Union, especially in the Global South, and scholars who can contribute to such developments are particularly encouraged to apply. Scholars coming from consortium partner institutions, and following the lines of the consortium policy for scholarships have first priority.

The ability to make a contribution to the research culture of the partner institutions is sought and the opportunity to further research is provided. Applicants are asked to submit a study plan outlining their research and teaching interests and how they will pursue them at the partner institutions.

This programme is expected to be granted four scholarships for 2008-10.

The grant agreement for scholarships breaks down as follows: 3 month x 4,000 euro plus 1,000 euro as a fixed amount. If the period is more than three months no more than 13,000 euro will be paid.

Further information is available from Inger Munk: imu@djh.dk

For application for a scholarship, please send a letter of motivation, a CV and the study plan including which partner institutions you would like to visit during your stay in Europe (please make arrangements with these institutions before sending the application). The length of a scholarship is normally 3 months, but can be more or less and can be taken together or spread over the two year period. Please indicate the period/s of your intended stay during the 2008-10 academic period.

Read 'From Ottawa to Aarhus: the problems of the press in a comparative perspective ', by recent Erasmus Mundus scholar Christopher Dornan, Carleton University, Canada

"It was my privilege to be in residence at the Danish School of Journalism as a 2006 Erasmus Mundus scholar. I must thank the DSJ for the warmth of its hospitality and the Erasmus Mundus program for the opportunity to devote uninterrupted time to my work in such a collegial institution."
	Chris Dornan

Read 'Diversity and the media through the lens of the Erasmus Mundus', by recent Erasmus Mundus Scholar Isabel Awad, Stanford University, USA.

"For someone interested in journalism and cultural diversity, there may hardly be an opportunity as valuable as being a visiting scholar within the Erasmus Mundus program. Not only did this scholarship take me to multicultural Amsterdam, it also offered me an opportunity to discuss the relationship between media and cultural diversity with 36 students coming from all over the world, with diverse backgrounds and journalistic experiences."

Isabel Awad

Read 'Reflections on Erasmus Mundus from the developing world' by recent Erasmus Mundus Scholar Simon Burton, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

"The Erasmus Mundus visiting scholars program provides a truly remarkable opportunity for non-European resident academics and practitioners: for travel; for teaching; for research consolidation and new partnerships; but above all, it offers the possibility of a dialogue - with colleagues, students, friends, and, of course, with oneself, as one encounters both the 'new' and the familiar through engaging with an extraordinary range of people associated with the program."

Simon Burton

Read ''Why I don't feel so bad anymore' by recent Erasmus Mundus scholar Sandy Tolan, University of California Berkeley.

"We're going to take a world tour. A tour through this very room in Aarhus. A tour through the aspirations, dreams of the people in it. 41 people from 20 countries. Let's start with the aspirations for a free press, for freedom of expression. In some places people fight for a free press. In some places people die for it. In some places people are too intimidated by power, or simply too lazy, to exercise the freedoms they do have. They take them for granted. I would say there aren't many people here who do that."

Sandy Tolan

Eligible beneficiaries for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship: A third-country scholar is a national of a third country other than those from EEA-EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) and candidate countries for accession to the European Union (presently Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Turkey); who is not a resident of any of the Member States or the participating countries; who has not carried out his or her main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the Member States or the participating countries; and who has outstanding academic and/or professional experience.