The Centre for Fundamental Rights is hosting a series of lunchtime talks and workshops to support research career development. The next event in this series will focus on Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft's (DFG) funding opportunities for postdoctoral researchers, in particular individual research grants and the Emmy Noether Programme.
Dr. Grit Heidemann-Schirmer, Associate Third Party Funding at the Hertie School, will introduce the different funding opportunities for postdoctoral researchers offered by the DFG. Prof. Anuscheh Farahat and Dr. Eliška Drápalová, recipients of DFG grants, will share their experiences of the research design, application, and grant management processes.
PhD and postdoctoral researchers at the Hertie School, as well as other members of the Hertie School’s community are invited to attend. Please note that the number of participants in each seminar is limited. Timely and binding registration is advisable, places will be awarded on a "first come, first served" basis.
Registration is now closed.
Speakers
Eliška Drápalová is a research fellow at the WZB. She obtained her PhD in Political Economy from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Eliška was a postdoctoral fellow at the Organizations, Management and Leadership Cluster of the Hertie School in Berlin as well as the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a comparative political scientist and administration scholar interested in the quality of government and regulation in cities, smart cities and the effect of technology on public administration.
Anuscheh Farahat is a Professor of Public Law, Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since 2017 she leads an Emmy-Noether research group on the role of constitutional courts in transnational solidarity conflicts in Europe funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Anuscheh is also a Senior Research Affiliate at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. Anuscheh publishes widely on issues of constitutional law, migration and citizenship law, and international human rights law. Her book on migrant citizenship and transnational migration in Germany (Progressive Inklusion: Zugehörigkeit und Teilhabe im Migrationsrecht, Springer Verlag, 2014) has received multiple awards, including the Herman-Mosler-Prize 2015 of the German Society of International Law.
Grit Heidemann-Schirmer holds a doctoral degree in History of Art from the University of Art Berlin. For more than 4 years she was a Research Fellow at the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre 640 "Changing Representations of Social Order" at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After that she specialized in the management of public funding. As of 2019, Grit is working at the Hertie School in the third-party funding department with a focus on DFG projects and national foundations.
