Einstein Center Chronoi (EC-C) is now accepting applications for fellowships for the calendar year 2023. We welcome project proposals that fit the annual theme “Synchronization and Synchronicity”.

Einstein Center Chronoi has been founded to enable researchers from Berlin along with guests from all over the world to address issues on the topic “Time and Awareness of Time in Antiquity” in an interdisciplinary research environment. The EC-C yearly appoints fellows from the humanities, but also social, natural and life sciences, who represent a broad spectrum of academic backgrounds and qualifications. EC-C fellows, who ideally work in collaboration with a tandem partner in Berlin, are invited to work at the EC-C in Berlin to conduct innovative and interdisciplinary research on the topic of "time" and exchange ideas with other researchers at the EC-C to contribute to its research agenda.

The EC-C’s annual theme for the year 2023 will be “Synchronization and Synchronicity”.
We distinguish between "synchronization" i.e. natural or artificial processes that lead to simultaneity between things or phenomena, and "synchronicity", i.e. simultaneity as the result of such synchronization processes stated (or constructed) by individuals or communities. An example of "synchronization" is a change in funerary practices in different cultural areas; an example of "synchronicity" is when ancient scholars map solar and lunar rhythms or different time calculations on to each other as they develop a calendar.

Applicants are encouraged to contact a Berlin-based tandem partner from one of the partner institutions of the EC-C. This tandem partner will serve as a collaboration partner within the framework of the applicant’s proposed research at the EC-C. Fellowship applicants should further demonstrate that their projects are laid out for the time of the fellowship and that they will be able to show some (preliminary) results from their research done during their time at the EC-C. Fellowship applicants are expected to have a doctoral degree and actively contribute to the structure and development of the EC-C. Moreover, fellows will be invited to contribute to the Chronoi Bookseries Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Management published by De Gruyter.

Please note the following:
- Due to the international character of the EC-C, the form should be filled out in English;
- The duration of a fellowship can be between 1 and 12 months within the calendar year 2023. It is possible for fellowships starting in 2023 to extend into 2024 (if within the 12-month limit).

More information on conditions, rules and regulations of the fellowship is included in the application form (in particular on page 7), which can be found on our website https://www.ec-chronoi.de/apply.

Please submit your application form electronically to fellowship-applications@chronoi.org by February 28, 2022.

For general inquiries, please contact sekretariat@chronoi.org or fellowship-applications@chronoi.org.