<div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CARTI seeks to assist the motivated  young academics who are in  crucial early stages of their careers to gain  critical competence with  the foundational and current scholarship and  active involvement in  international intellectual exchange and debate in  their subject areas.  With the support of CARTI, the Fellows engage  state-of-the-art  resources, theories, methodologies and approaches to  their research and  teaching in the subjects and areas of importance to  the academic and  social development in the region. <br><br>CARTI is  committed to  enrichment and innovation in higher education in the  humanities and  social sciences and emphasizes the significance of  original and  critical scholarly work in the development of university  teaching and  curricula.
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</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CARTI is implemented through Junior and Senior Fellowships.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Junior Fellowships (deadline Nov. 7, 2011)<br></b></span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/junior" mce_href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/junior">Junior Fellowships</a> support individuals in early stages of their formal doctoral studies (such as <i>aspirantura</i>)   and focus on developing ideas and skills for original academic   research. Junior Fellowships provide a medium for testing and   challenging the theories, methods, and assumptions in the core of   individual research agendas, while at the same time guiding and   assisting the fellows in their first independent research efforts.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/junior" mce_href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/junior">View further information about CARTI Junior Fellowships</a>.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" mce_style="color: #000000;"><b>Senior Fellowships<b> (deadline Nov. 7, 2011)</b></b></span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/senior" mce_href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/senior">Senior Fellowships</a> are available to young scholars who have recently received their   doctoral (e.g., candidate of science) degrees. The fellowships support   innovative and critical &nbsp;research agendas and development of   international research and teaching partnerships with special emphasis   on presentation of scholarly work and integrating the new scholarly   thinking and outcomes and experience of research into university   teaching.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/senior" mce_href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/senior">View further information about CARTI Senior Fellowships</a>.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The program provides fellows with opportunities for:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
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<li><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">enhancing  familiarity with the state-of-the-art in their disciplines  and  association with the current thinking in their fields, by improving   access to seminal scholarship, relevant international expertise and   contemporary debates within the international scholarly community;</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">conducting  individual and collaborative original, innovative and  high quality  research with critical discussion and peer feedback on the  research  process and outcomes, enhanced by advanced training in and  practice of  research design and contemporary methodologies and tools of  academic  research; </span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> applying research experience and outcomes to development of  teaching  and     curriculum at the region's universities and promoting  research  work as integral     part of students' learning; </span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> peer collaboration and mobility on regional and international level;</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">development of skills and venues for publicizing scholarly work.</span></li>
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</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Through  its mentoring scheme, CARTI helps to establish and supports  active  direct collaboration of the Fellows with advanced International   Scholars engaged in the studies and teaching in the similar subjects.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>International Scholars</b></span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All  CARTI junior and senior fellows work in collaborative  partnerships  with individually appointed CARTI international scholars.  The  international scholars can be proposed by the fellows or selected by   CARTI and are advanced academics, prominent in the fields of   scholarship relevant to the fellows' projects, who represent   universities outside the program's target region. The international   scholars advise and collaborate with the fellows in enhancing their   research projects at the planning stages and in the course of their   implementation by offering feedback and critique, and through joint   research activities, discussion of sources, methods, progress and   findings of the research.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CARTI  supports the program of exchange visits between fellows and   international scholars. The international scholars assist the fellows in   accessing the relevant resources and facilities at their home   institutions and facilitate their contacts with international academic   networks.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/international" mce_href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/international">View further information about CARTI International Scholar Fellowships</a>.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Academic Subjects and Working Language</b></span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CARTI  is open to support academic research in a wide range of  subjects and  topics in the humanities and social sciences. The proposed  projects  will typically be concerned with the study, revision and  application of  the foundational scholarly thinking to analysis and  explanation of  specific issues and research questions, rather than aim  at policy  development or implementation. The program strongly encourages  and  helps develop original and innovative research agendas that have  the  bearing on the important issues within the communities and societies  of  the scholar’s country and wider region and research of comparative   nature. The supported projects can also pursue critical exploration and   original interpretations of the foundational scholarship in the  academic  subjects, as well as the study of other regions and countries  of the  world, that have pronounced relevance for developing the  scholarly  explanations of region-specific issues and phenomena. CARTI  makes a  special effort to create spaces for and support for  interdisciplinary  discussion and research.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">While  CARTI supports research and teaching in the local languages,   operational knowledge of English and ability to work with academic   resources and participate in training activities in the English language   is highly desirable and considered an advantage in the selection   process.</span></p>