July 19, 2013

Application Form 2014-2015 ( pdf / word )

The Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University apologizes for the delay of call for the SRC Foreign Visiting Fellow Program of the next academic year. The delay was caused by Hokkaido University’s attempt to restructure the whole foreign visitors system, which affected the SRC foreign visitors system as well. Hokkaido University decided to postpone this plan and the SRC finds it possible to run its foreign visitors system largely as it did, at least for the next academic year of 2014-2015. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the thirty-sixth round of the Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program for 2014-2015. Because of the delay of start, the SRC urges all potential applicants to prepare necessary documents intensively, by the deadline on September 20, 2013. Moreover, we kindly ask applicants to understand the conditions described below are tentative due to the changing situation within our university.

 

Foreign specialists in studies of the former Soviet and East European countries, who are interested in spending several months at the Slavic Research Center during the academic year of 2014-2015 (June to March), may submit applications for this program. Applicants should choose their preferred period of stay at SRC:

1. Ten months (from June 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015)
2. Five months in Summer (from June 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015)
3. Five months in Winter (from November 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015)

Within each period, applicants will be able to name a shorter preferred period. For example, the applicant can select a four-month stay in winter with concrete data such as from November 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015. However, applicants, who would prefer a five-month stay at SRC, are not permitted to name a period including both Summer and Winter dates (for example, applying for a period from August 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 is not acceptable).

After the selection process, the Slavic Research Center reserves the right to ask nominated applicants either to shorten a requested ten-month-stay to five months or to change the date of the five-month stay at the Center.

 

1.Conditions of Awards

 

The Center undertakes to provide the following:

1. One round-trip air ticket (economy-class) between the place of work of a fellow and Sapporo. Fellows are welcome to bring their family, but at their own expense. Fellows must pay shipping and customs clearance charges for their own luggage.
2. A living allowance of around 480,000 yen per month (subject to change). In addition, there is a one-time financial allowance of around 80,000 yen for professional trips in Japan. (Please be aware that the sum of taxation on your income in Japan will depend on whether a Tax Treaty exists between Japan and your country. The treaty will help you avoid double taxation.)
3. Accommodation (either a flat in the University’s Foreign Scholars’ Residence or a furnished flat outside the University campus). The kind of accommodation that SRC can provide foreign fellows will depend on the rules of flats in the University’s Foreign Scholars’ Residence which SRC will receive from University Administration in the academic year of 2014-2015.
4. In both cases you will have to pay monthly rent. Gas, electricity, water, heating and telephone must be paid separately at the university resident (the University’s Foreign Scholars’ Residence has a poor condition for internet connection), but they are included in the case of the flat outside the campus.
5. A travel allowance for daily commuting to and from the Center.
6. An office at the Center (with the use of a personal computer) and access to all the University and library facilities. No secretarial service is provided.
7. The visiting scholar, who will stay more than 2 months, must subscribe to social insurance (health insurance) and pension. The insurance will pay 70% of your medical expenses. If your stay will be within 2 months, you are strongly recommended to subscribe an overseas health insurance in your own country.
8. The visiting scholar is expected to spend either 5 or 10 months at the Slavic Research Center, but is free during that period to engage in a limited amount of travel for professional purposes within Japan. Foreign travel must be approved by the director in accordance with the regulations.

The above-mentioned conditions are preliminary and changes may occur when the details of the program are finally determined in the 2014-2015 academic year.

 

2.Obligations

 

Fellows have the following obligations to the Center:

1. The Center will expect fellows to give at least two presentations at academic meetings held at SRC or outside SRC but in Japan.
2. The Center will further expect fellows to contribute an article during or immediately after their stay in Sapporo to the Center’s international refereed journal Acta Slavica Iaponica on a subject within the broad confines of Slavic, Russian, and East European studies.

The visiting scholar is also expected to be available for talks and consultation with members of staff and graduate students.

 

3.Applications and References

 

Applicants should submit applications for this program by the deadline (September 20, 2013). Applications can be sent by e-mail.

 

Application form 2014-2015 ( pdf / word )

 

Each applicant is expected to have at least two letters of reference sent directly to the Center: one letter from the institution to which the applicant is attached, testifying that he or she will be free during the period of the stay in Sapporo, and another confidential letter from a recognized specialist in their field. It is the responsibility of applicants to make sure that letters of reference should arrive at the Center by the deadline. Referees can send their signed letters either by post or by e-mail.

 

4.Selection

 

The selection will be conducted in October-November 2012, carefully examining the applicants’ research plans, academic publications, possible contributions to the SRC’s projects and other factors.

Preference is given to those who have both permanent academic positions and PhD degrees (or their equivalents).

 

5.Notification

 

Applicants will be informed of the selection results by the end of November, 2013.

 

6.Correspondence
 

Correspondence concerning this program should be addressed to:

Head, Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program

Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato / Ms Mika Osuga

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

Kita-9, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0809, Japan

Tel.:  (+81) 11-706-2388

Fax. : (+81) 11-706-4952

E-mail: src@slav.hokudai.ac.jp

*Information about the SRC is available through the Internet: Website: http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html