
<br />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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<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CARTI is implemented through Junior and Senior Fellowships.</span></span></span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Junior Fellowships</strong></span></span></span></h4>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a 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 <em>aspirantura</em>)  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></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/junior">View further information about CARTI Junior Fellowships</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Senior Fellowships</strong></span></span></span></h4>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a 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  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></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/senior">View further information about CARTI Senior Fellowships</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The program provides fellows with opportunities for:</span></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 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></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> peer collaboration and mobility on regional and international level;</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">development of skills and venues for publicizing scholarly work.</span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>International Scholars</strong></span></span></span></h4>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/carti/grants/international">View further information about CARTI International Scholar Fellowships</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Academic Subjects and Working Language</strong></span></span></span></h4>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></p>
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