Opus Magnum

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Grant Name

Opus Magnum

Funder

VolkswagenStiftung

Country or Region

Germany

Research Field

Arts and Humanities

Cultural or Population Studies

General Humanities Topics

Social Sciences

Deadline

February 1, 2022 (Expired)

Grant Size

Upper €180,000EUR Depending on the basic salary in the respective classification (W3/W2), up to 55,000 euros can be allocated for the substitute professorship per semester, and a lump sum of 5,000 euros for (student/research) assistants as well as recurring non-personnel and non-recurrent expenses. The maximum sum that can be allocated is therefore 180,000 euros over three semesters.

Contact Info

Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Program Director szoelloesi-brenig@volkswagenstiftung.de

Eligibility

This program addresses all full professors in the humanities, cultural studies, and (theoretical) social sciences at German universities. In exceptional cases, interested professors may also be considered from other disciplines. Applying professors should be at least three years before retirement at the time of application. Extraordinary professors (apl. Prof.) are not eligible for applying.

Description

This funding initiative aims at providing established professors of the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences at German universities with the opportunity to concentrate full-time on the writing of an extensive scholarly treatise - an Opus Magnum with an outreach beyond their own specific academic field. This funding opportunity entails release from their official teaching and administrative duties. Since the funding is mainly to cover the costs of a substitute professorship, the initiative serves at the same time to provide a career perspective for young academics, who are given the opportunity to temporarily assume responsibility for an established and renowned professorship.Under Opus Magnum, the foundation understands a book of fundamental significance, which owing to its special quality, originality and outreach sets itself apart from a regular academic book. For example, a work that
- constitutes a first comprehensive review of a research field that refers in detail to the state of re-search in neighboring disciplines,
- sheds completely new light on a subject area via a critical examination of common interpretation patterns and thereby opens up a new field of research,
- innovatively links up preparatory research of different kinds and provenance, generating new insights via such a synthesis.Funding is not available for editing volumes, translations, textbooks, manuals, commentaries, and advice literature. Eligibility This program addresses all full professors in the humanities, cultural studies, and (theoretical) social sciences at German universities. In exceptional cases, interested professors may also be considered from other disciplines. Applying professors should be at least three years before retirement at the time of application. Extraordinary professors (apl. Prof.) are not eligible for applying.

Website

https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/our-funding-portfolio-at-a-glance/opus-magnum

Funding resources
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link