GEI Fellowship

30-September-2026

The research library at the Georg Eckert Institute represents a unique tool for international textbook research. The Institute relies on permanent and close academic contact with domestic and foreign researchers and practitioners in the fulfilment of its important role. In order to promote the exchange of ideas internationally and to further develop international textbook research – with an emphasis on comparative approaches –, the Institute has developed a fellowship programme with the support of the Association of Friends of the Georg Eckert Institute.

Fellowships are designed to encourage:

Individual research projects that focus on international understanding through education and schools; research aimed at reducing prejudice and identifying alternative perceptions as well as stereotyped and adversarial images in educational media, and their origins.
International education and didactics research on the methods, content and objectives of teaching in the subject areas in which the Institute's library specialises; research into the governmental, institutional and social frameworks in which this teaching takes place.
Academic research on issues of perception and reception in the fields of history, geography and social science.
Studies on textbook development in the subjects in which the Institute specialises which aim to identify new paths for textbook production based on comparative international textbook research.

The length of the fellowship is 2-4 weeks. Fellows receive a monthly stipend of 800 Euros and are accomodated in one of the Institute's guest apartments.

Learn more about the GEI Fellowship.

[All information is taken from the institution's website.]