Summer Fellowship Opportunity in Austria for Grad Students Interested in Global Change
An excellent summer opportunity for graduate students interested in relating their work to global change issues is available for students who want to study abroad. The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located just outside Vienna, Austria, each year sponsors a fellowship program for graduate students. About 50-60 students from around the world spend the summer working closely with IIASA senior researchers on projects relevant to each student's thesis topic. They end the summer with an international network of colleagues interested in various aspects of global change issues, and often have produced a paper that can be published.
The application deadline is January 19. For students selected to participate, funding is available for travel and living support, principally from IIASA’s nineteen National Member Organizations (NMOs). The U.S. NMO funds both American citizens and non-citizens who are studying in the U.S.
Please contact Tanja Huber, IIASA’s YSSP Coordinator, with general questions about the program. She can be reached at ysspsupport@iiasa.ac.at.
IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2009
Summer Fellowship in Austria for Graduate Students in Natural and Social Sciences, Math, Policy and Engineering
Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located in Schloss Laxenburg near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely with IIASA’s senior scientists on projects within the Institute’s 3 theme areas.
Funding is available to cover travel to IIASA and a modest living allowance.
APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 19 JAN 2009
2009 YSSP DATES: 1 JUNE - 31 AUGUSTWHAT IS IIASA AND WHAT ARE ITS PROGRAM AREAS?
IIASA is an international institution, supported by the U.S. and 18 other governments, engaged in scientific research aimed at providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance in the following areas:
Energy and Technology
· Energy
· New Technologies
· Dynamic Systems
· Integrated Modeling Environment
Natural Resources and Environment
· Land Use and Agriculture
· Forestry
· Evolution and Ecology
· Atmospheric Pollution & Econ. Devt.
· Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Population and Society
· World Population
· Risk and Vulnerability
· International Negotiation
· Population and Climate Change
· Health and Global Change Initiative
Detailed information about each program is on the IIASA Website: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
· You are an advanced graduate student;
· Your field is compatible with ongoing research at IIASA;
· Your research and career would benefit from working alongside 50 or so contemporary young
scientists from a score or more of other nations, and senior scientists from around the world;
· You would like to explore the policy implications of your work.
HOW DO YOU APPLY?
An on-line application form, along with more information, is at http://www.iiasa.ac.at/yssp/register/
General Questions: Tanja Huber, YSSP Coordinator ysspsupport@iiasa.ac.at
U.S. contact: Margaret Goud Collins, Program Director for the U.S. Committee for IIASA
National Academy of Sciences mcollins@nas.edu
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