Pia Schöngarth M.A.
Manager Fellowship Programme, Alumni officer
Fellowship and Guest Programme
IEG Fellowship Programme
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) awards 6- to 12-month fellowships to doctoral students and postdocs from Germany and abroad. Funding is available for research projects covering the early modern period to contemporary history that deal with the religious, political, social, and cultural history of Europe. Comparative, transfer history, and transnational projects are particularly welcome, as are questions relating to intellectual and religious history or environmental history and projects that use digital methods.
Call for Applications
Fellowships for doctoral students are announced twice a year, and fellowships for postdocs are announced once a year. Fellowships for digital humanities are announced once a year.
Good reasons for a fellowship at the IEG
- Full concentration: The institute enables its fellows to concentrate on completing their dissertation or pursuing their own research project.
- Secure accommodation: Fellows live and work in the institute building in Mainz—the fellowships are linked to a residency requirement in Mainz.
- Exchange, learning, and transfer: In an international atmosphere of discussion, fellows hone their methods and research questions for interdisciplinary historical research on Europe. The IEG offers a wide range of academic activities and international cooperation partners.
- Internationality: Living and working together with young and experienced international researchers from all over the world, presenting one’s own research in English.
- Academic infrastructure: For their research, fellows have access to the institute’s special library, including workspaces, as well as the academic infrastructure of Mainz.
- Mainz flair: In the heart of Mainz, there are many opportunities to enjoy leisure activities, culture, sports, and festivals in addition to the scientific program.
- Experience history: A building with over 400 years of history and an institute with its own unique history. What better place to conduct historical research?
- Network and contacts: As a fellow, you will become part of the Leibniz Association, get involved in our alumni network, and make new friends and numerous important contacts for your future research and professional life.
Alumni testimonials
“The contact with scholars working at the IEG has been very helpful in finding the necessary support to work on my dissertation. Especially helpful has been being in touch with my mentor […]. Other doctoral and postdoctoral fellows, researchers, and professors at the IEG have provided me with an exciting intellectual setting to learn and share ideas and historical knowledge.”
Carla Andrés Bauzá, Fellow 2024-2025
“The excellent conditions at the IEG have not only helped me to advance enormously with the writing, but have provided me with incredible emotional and material support for this final phase of the writing. I am very grateful to the IEG Doctoral Fellowship programme for offering me this space and support to finish the final phase of my current research. My stay at the IEG has also served me to establish contact with several researchers and institutions in the German academic environment whose existence I was unaware of. […] Ultimately, my presence at the IEG has also helped me to come into contact with new lines of research, theoretical tools and new methodologies that have influenced my research and will do so in the future. Although I was already familiar with the tools of Global and Transnational History, the presence in a non-Spanish academic environment has allowed me to expand the horizons of my research towards less nationally based, more global and comparative perspective.”
Javier Martínez Dos Santos, Fellow 2025
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