Cooperation

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President of the Dominican Republic visits the GIGA
In the presence of the President, representatives of the GIGA and the influential Dominican think tank FUNGLODE (Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo) signed a cooperation agreement.

GIGA signs cooperation agreement with University of Virginia
GIGA signed in June 2010 a cooperation agreement with the University of Virgina. Cooperation will include research collaboration and the exchange of researchers and Ph.D. students. In an initial phase, joint activities will be connected to the research theme of 'regional powers' and political science research on Asia. For further information please contact PD Dr Dirk Nabers or PD Dr Patrick Koellner.

Cooperation Agreements

Through the signing of cooperation agreements, the GIGA has been able to build its collaboration with leading universities and think tanks and lay the foundation for formal cooperation in the areas of research and knowledge transfer.

To date, cooperation agreements have been finalised with the following institutions:

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
University of Salamanca, Spain (USAL)
Universidad Torcuato de Tella, Buenos Aires , Argentina (UTDT)
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (ICS-UL)
Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway
Pontificia Universidad Católica Chile, Santiago de Chile (PUC-Chile)
Universidad do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien (UERJ)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PUC-Rio)
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Santiago de Chile (FLACSO-Chile)
Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt (ACPSS)
Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, Madrid, Spain (FRIDE)
Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, Santo Domingo, Dominikanische Republik (FUNGLODE)

Joint Professorships

The GIGA co-operates with the University of Hamburg and other universities by joint hiring processes for professorships.

The GIGA's President and Vice-President (Prof. Dr. Robert Kappel and Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte) hold professorships at the University of Hamburg. Joint hiring processes for the directors of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies and the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies are currently carried out.

The GIGA and the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen have appointed Juliane Brach to the position of junior professor, effective April 1, 2009, following a joint hiring process. The position includes employment as a research fellow at the GIGA: Dr. Juliane Brach is an academic staff member at IMES and in RP3.

The GIGA and the Faculty of Economic Sciences at Georg August University of Göttingen have appointed Jann Lay to the position of junior professor for economics with a focus on research on developing countries, effective April 1, 2009, following a joint hiring process. The position includes employment as a research fellow at the GIGA: Jun. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay is an academic staff member at ILAS and in RP3.

Visiting Scientists

The GIGA values international exchange between researchers and is willing to host visiting researchers. Of special interest are those scientists who work on subjects coherent with the GIGA's research profile.
Our tight financial situation forces us to require guaranteed third-party funding. Scholarships are often granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Robert Kappel,

List of current visiting researchers at the GIGA

Hamburg Welcome Center

For new residents from both Germany and abroad, the Hamburg Welcome Center helps to arrange immigration documents for qualified employees and students and provides free advice on the following topics: accommodation, economy and labour, school education and university studies, children and family, and culture and leisure.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is very interested in promoting scientific collaborations in the humanities, social sciences and legal sciences with both Islamic countries and Asian threshold countries, such as China and India. To better reach the scientific elites of these countries, the foundation has made the following offer for the coming years:

10 additional Humboldt research fellowships per year for postdocs in the humanities, social sciences and legal sciences from Islamic countries.

10 additional Humboldt research fellowships per year for postdocs in the humanities, social sciences and legal sciences from threshold countries in Asia (China, India and others).

Information on the programmes is available at: www.humboldt-foundation.de/new.
Should you have questions or wish for further information, please contact the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at: info@avh.de
or per mail or fax at: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Jean Paul Str. 12, 53173 Bonn, Germany, Phone: 49-228 833-0, Fax: 49-228-833-114.

Cooperation Partners

The GIGA cooperates with universities and research institutes in Germany, Europe and the regions under study. Similarly, the area studies research institutes and programmes are in close contact with national and international area studies networks.
The institutes were instrumental in setting up the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD), the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA), the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), and the German Association of Research on Latin America (ADLAF).