Call for Proposals
CENTER FOR POLICY STUDIES
INTERNATIONAL POLICY FELLOWSHIPS, 2004

All applications must be submitted online at www.osi.hu/ipf by August 1, 2003

The Central European University Center for Policy Studies (CPS) is calling for proposals for its year 2003 International Policy Fellowships (IPF) program, which is affiliated with the CPS and the Open Society Institute-Budapest. Broadly speaking, an open society is characterized by a reliance on the rule of law, the existence of a democratically elected government, a diverse and vigorous civil society, and respect for minorities and minority opinions. Launched in late 1999, the CPS works with a broadening circle of policy analysts and institutions to promote the development of policy center networks throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia, as well as countries in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Center undertakes policy research and advocacy that furthers the open society mission and disseminates quality analyses in accessible formats.

The CPS International Policy Fellowships are intended to support the analytical policy research of open society leaders and to provide these Fellows with professional policy training. The program aims to improve the quality of analysis in countries where the Soros foundations work by ensuring that these leaders are able to conduct research in their home region while maintaining local affiliations and a high degree of mobility and intellectual freedom. Fellows participate in four training seminars in Budapest over the course of the fellowship year conducted by professors of public policy from around the world and gain vital skills including how to write professional policy documents, identify appropriate policy instruments, and effectively advocate policies-skills that are underdeveloped in countries where the Soros foundations work. Good policy analysis is characterized by elements including a reliance on well-researched data; comprehensive, non-ideological assessment of relevant factors and options; explicitly stated criteria for assessing options; consideration of the interests and groups affected; and the clear presentation of feasible recommendations for action as well as how these recommendations should be communicated and implemented.

Outstanding Fellows from Eastern Europe may be nominated to participate in additional training and research opportunities including a three-month International Junior Public Policy Scholar Fellowship in Washington, D.C. in affiliation with the Woodrow Wilson Center's East European Studies program. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States' official memorial to President Wilson, was established by congressional legislation in 1968. Meant to reflect and continue Woodrow Wilson's commitment to a deeper understanding of issues crucial to global peace and stability, the Center serves as an international, interdisciplinary, non-partisan scholarly institute which fosters scholarship in the humanities and social sciences and encourages dialogue between the academic and policy communities. East European Studies, housed at the Woodrow Wilson Center, provides a non-partisan forum for bringing historical and contemporary understanding of the former communist states of Eastern Europe and the Baltics to the nation's capital and throughout the country. For more details on the Wilson Center and its East European Studies program, please see further details at the end of this announcement and visit the Center's website at www.wilsoncenter.org.

Applicants are encouraged to submit individual, practical and policy-oriented research proposals in the following subject areas. The product of each fellowship will be a detailed analysis of a major issue to be published in English and translated into other languages:

2003 Fellowship Issue Areas
1. Administrative Remedies
2. Church-State Relations: Regulation, Establishment and Discrimination
3. Corruption in Revenue Collection and Budget Expenditure
4. Cultural Policies and Cultural Heritage
5. Diversity and Transparency in Education.
6. Electoral Reforms, Minority Representation, and Democratic Accountability
7. Equal Opportunity Policies: Putting Equality Into Practice
8. Effective Policies for Addressing Environmental Liabilities
9. Information Policy
10. Land Reform
11. Scaling Up Microfinance to Increase Access to Financial Services
12. Migration and Citizenship Policy
13. Public Health
14. The Policy Process and the Policymaking Environment

Terms of the International Policy Fellowship Award
Fellows will be provided with a one-year stipend, expenses including travel, and needed communications equipment to work full-time on research of their design in one of the above areas. The amount of the award will vary depending on standards in the Fellow's country of residence and the budgetary needs of the proposal.

To Apply: Application Requirements and Procedures
All initial queries must be entered online via the internet directly into the IPF application database found at www.osi.hu/ipf. Those who have no possibility to access the internet (including from public libraries, internet centers, or national Soros foundations) should send an e-mail to fellows@osi.hu or call the IPF offices at (36 1) 327-3863 to discuss the best alternate application solution. Finalists will be interviewed by telephone at the expense of IPF. Successful applicants will be notified in November or December 2003 and no later than January 15, 2004. The fellowship research cycle will approximate the period from January 2004 to March 2005. Applications sent by mail, fax or e-mail will not be considered unless you received prior approval from IPF staff to use an alternative method of application.