In the second phase of EHRI, that started in May this year, the EHRI Fellowships Programme has undergone considerable changes, all concerned with more flexibility. In the new programme, the call is not once a year, but has an open character, with cut-off dates to allow for evaluation. Fellows can request to stay between one to six weeks at the institution of their choice. This time no less than fifteen EHRI partner institutions offer fellowships. Although the EHRI fellowships programme especially would like to support PhD candidates with limited resources, fellowships are also available for researchers, archivists, and curators. Disciplines include historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists, conservationists, sociologists, musicologists, art historians, employees of memorial sites, and many more.

The EHRI Fellowships Call for 2016-2018 is already online.

EHRI fellowships offer access to the holdings of the host institution(s) as well as time to visit nearby archives etc. and include a stipend for housing and living expenses as well as travel to and from the inviting institution.

Fifteen EHRI partner institutions are offering EHRI Fellowships for 414 weeks between 2016 and 2018:

• NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CEGESOMA), Brussels, Belgium
• Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
• Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Munich, Germany
• King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities, London, United Kingdom EHRI Fellowships at KCL’s Department of Digital Humanities are limited to researchers who wish to explore the application of digital tools and methods to Holocaust-related datasets. Access is provided to the Department’s unique methodological expertise in regard to digital scholarship.
• Yad Vashem – The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority (YV), Jerusalem, Israel For EHRI Fellowships at YV, preference is given to archivists, conservation and preservation specialists, museum curators and the like wishing to engage in methodological access.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington (D.C.), United States of America EHRI Fellowships at the USHMM are restricted to collections infrastructure specialists, such as archivists, cataloguers, collection managers, conservators, curators, film and oral history specialists, librarians, digital curators, and others wishing to expand their knowledge and gain expertise in museum practices, collections access, and infrastructure development. Duration of fellowships should be between 4–6 weeks. For USHMM fellowships designed for scholars to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust, please see: www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/fellowship-competition.
• Bundesarchiv, Berlin / Ludwigsburg / Freiburg / Koblenz / Bayreuth, Germany
• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, London, United Kingdom
• International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen, Germany
• Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute / Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Warsaw, Poland
• The Shoah Memorial – Museum, Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Paris, France
• Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien / Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), Vienna, Austria
• Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, Romania
• Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center / Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC), Milan, Italy

EHRI is offering an open call, with evaluation cut-off dates every nine months, i.e. on 30 September 2015, 30 June 2016, 31 March 2017 and finally on 31 December 2017 – any proposal submitted after the evaluation cut-off date will automatically be included in the following evaluation round by the panel of experts. For the prerequisites and application details, please visit www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-fellowship-call-2016-2018.

Who were the EHRI fellows in 2014, 2013 and 2012?