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The Esperantic Studies Foundation offers Interlingual Research
Grants of
up to
$10,000 to support publishable research on issues it considers
to be
relevant to
its mission. This program is particularly designed to benefit
postdoctoral
researchers and junior faculty who are in the process of
establishing a
research
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Examples
of research funded by ESF include:
Researcher:
Dr. Nergis Ertürk (2006)
Project: Missed Encounters: Modernity and the Crisis of Language. An investigation
of
a linguistic crisis in western European and Turkish literary modernism during
the
late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries.
Researcher:
Dr. Sho Konishi (2006)
Project: The emergence of the Esperanto movement in Japan: Interlingualism and
the vision of cooperatist anarchist modernity.
Researcher:
Dr. Thomas Cooper (2005)
Project: An investigation of the role of translation in the (re)creation of a
transnational literary consciousness in the linguistically diverse region of
Central Europe.
Researcher:
Dr. Nancy Nicholson (2005)
Project: Linguistic Human Rights for Ethnic Minorities:
Language Planning for Interpreting Services at the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and
Implications for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
as well as Future International Tribunals.
Researcher: Dr. Aleksandr Melnikov
Project: An investigation of the ways that the culture of the
Esperanto speech community is reflected in Esperanto texts,
especially those in the various literary genres.
Researchers: Dr. Alvino E. Fantini & Dr. Timothy G. Reagan
Project: Esperanto
and Education: Toward a Research Agenda
Researchers: An international team of researchers, educators
and technology developers
Project: Interkulturo: education across language barriers using
Esperanto as a bridge language.
Eligibility
All individuals and organizations are eligible to apply for
Interlingual Research Grants. ESF particularly welcomes
applications from graduate students planning dissertation
research and from untenured faculty members.
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How to Apply
You
may apply at any time. Before applying, you may contact any
officer of ESF to discuss your plans and ideas. When ready
to apply, send us a written statement describing:
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- your qualifications, including relevant education, skills, knowledge, experience,
or prior published and unpublished research (you may include transcripts,
certificates, and copies of written work);
- the problem on which you propose
to conduct research;
- the research you propose to conduct;
- the
expected value of your proposed research to theoretical
knowledge,
practical solutions,
or both;
- where and in what form(s) you hope to publish
your research results;
- how the proposed research will relate
to other
work you have done and expect
to do;
- the human and institutional resources available
to you for your conduct of the research;
- the equipment,
supply,
service, travel, and other costs
you expect to incur in conducting the research;
- the minimum
amount of direct support that you would need to receive
from
us
in order to conduct the research,
and a proposed schedule for the payment of direct support;
- the
period of time during which you expect to conduct
the research;
- if applicable, the
amount or proportion of support, if any, that the
institution with which you are affiliated would require
as
compensation for its indirect costs in
hosting your research;
- the names and addresses (including
Internet mail addresses and telephone numbers)
of at least three
persons who are qualified to attest
to your qualities as a researcher or research group.
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Funding Schedule
If we offer an Interlingual Research Grant to you, we shall divide
the grant amount into installments to be paid during your research
period and after submission of your final report. Typically,
we offer to pay installments totaling two-thirds of the grant
during the research period and a final installment of one-third
of the grant within one month after you submit a final report
satisfactory to us.
Recipients of Interlingual Research Grants may also be invited
to participate in occasional ESF meetings or conferences.
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Send completed applications to
our administrative office c/o the information provided on our Contact page. |
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