Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to ask for your help in
publicizing an excellent summer opportunity for
graduate students interested in relating their
work to global change issues. 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 the 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. IIASAs work spans a wide variety
of disciplines, and YSSP fellows have come from
an array of disciplines: natural or social
sciences; mathematics or engineering; law or
management; energy studies or demography; risk
or climate; policy or international relations.
Id be very grateful for your help in
publicizing the YSSP Program for 2010. The
application deadline is January 18, and we want
to spread the word about this great opportunity
as widely as possible. Please help by
forwarding the announcement to as many
appropriate graduate students, graduate
department secretaries, university careers
offices, and listservs as possible, and post the
flyer anywhere you think a potential applicant
might see it. (The information appended below
is identical to the information on the flyer.)
The question most frequently raised concerns
funding. For students selected to participate,
funding is available for travel and living
support, principally from IIASAs sixteen
National Member Organizations (NMOs). The U.S.
NMO funds both American citizens and non-citizens who are studying in the U.S.
Please contact me if you have questions about
U.S. participation, or Tanja Huber, IIASAs YSSP
Coordinator, with general questions about the
program. She can be reached at
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected].
Very truly yours,
Maggie Goud Collins
Margaret R. Goud Collins, Ph.D.
Program Director, US NMO Committee for IIASA
Program Officer, US National Committee, DIVERSITAS
The National Academies
phone: (508)548-2502
email: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2010
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 IIASAs senior scientists on
projects within the Institutes 3 theme areas.
Funding is available to cover travel to IIASA and a modest living allowance.
APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 18 JAN 2010
2010 YSSP DATES: 1 JUNE - 27 AUGUST
WHAT IS IIASA AND WHAT ARE ITS PROGRAM AREAS?
IIASA is an international institution, supported
by the U.S. and 15 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/>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/>http://www.iiasa.ac.at/yssp/register/
General Questions: Tanja Huber, YSSP
Coordinator <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
U.S. contact: Margaret Goud
Collins, Program Director for the U.S. Committee for IIASA
National
Academy of Sciences <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
