Scholarship Programme

The goal of the Scholarship Programme is to foster academic research in South Caucasus countries. The Programme aims to support:

• Young researchers to conduct individual and interdisciplinary research that contributes to the development of social sciences in the countries of the South Caucasus.
• The development of a regional network of social scientists in the South Caucasus.

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Call for project proposals for HBF Alumni 2003-2011

- As a result of nine-year experience of working in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, the Heinrich Boell Foundation has contributed to the training of qualified staff for the Academy as well as for Civil Society. The alumni of the HBF are now the authors of many new topics and initiatives in different spheres of public life. The Foundation considers it important to support sharing the accumulated experience in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia and giving the birth to new ideas or initiatives based on the obtained knowledge. With this purpose, South Caucasus Regional Office of Heinrich Boell Foundation announces small grants competition for its former scholarship holders. more»

The collapse of the Soviet empire, like the earthquakes that brought down Austria-Hungary and the German Empire in 1918 and the fascist regimes in 1945, seemed a brilliant opportunity for democracy. All the new states that stumbled out of the ruins of the Soviet bloc, except Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, seemed indeed to be moving toward democracy in the early 1990s. And all the countries of East Central Europe and the Balkans, subjected to Communist authoritarian in 1945, have now reached it or seem about to do so. Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. more»

Looking through the Glass Darkly

- I call my lecture “Looking through the glass darkly” a quote from 1 Corinthians 13:12.  Originally, this referred to our inability to perceive God clearly.   I am using it as a metaphor for Westerners – both public officials and academics - who looking through the glass, see one dimensional images of the Caucasus.  The way many Westerners perceive Caucasia (and I include myself) tells us more about ourselves, perhaps, than it does about the reality of South Caucasian politics. Stephen Jones more»

Bakuriani Summer School 2011

- On 10-14 July 2011, the Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF) organized a summer school in Bakuriani.  more»

Bazaleti Summer School 2010: State, Society and Conflict in the Transcaucasus

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On 18-24 July 2010, the Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBS), in partnership with the Georg-Eckert Institut and with a financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) organized a summer school: State, Society and Conflict in the Transcaucasus in Bazaleti, Georgia.

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„Conflict and Transformation in the South Caucasus“

- Organised by the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Bakuriani, Georgia, 6-10 October 2009

The one-week summer school brought together twenty young researchers and NGO staffers from the South Caucasus and ten experts in the field of post-communist transformation, national identity, conflict management, state building and Europeanization. The organisers were Iris Kempe and Nino Lejava on behalf of Heinrich Böll Foundation and Tobias Debiel and Corinne Heaven on behalf of the Institute for Development and Peace.

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South Caucasus: Seeking for New Identity

- On 25-31 of July 2009, in village Bakuriani a regular 6th Summer School was held under the framework of the South Caucasus Regional Scholarship Program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Current year scholarship holders and alumni of the Foundation, as well as fellows from Germany participated in the Summer School. N. Lejava more»

From the year 2004 on far more than 80 young scientists took part in our scholarship program. Coming from various disciplines the researchers worked in the fields of contemporary history, critical sociology and sustainable development. more»