Funded projects
Here you will find a list of all our sponsored projects
2024
Project | Applicant |
Collaboration in the working group of Prof. Peter Macheroux (TU Graz) | Dekel Cohen Hoch |
Promotion of artistic research in the field of composition (KUG) | Dganit Enso Elyakim |
Funding for the lecture by Prof. Nienass at the Graz International Summer School 2024 (Gusegg) | Roberta Maierhofer |
Sponsorship of the lecture by Prof Siman at the Graz International Summer School 2024 (Gusegg) | Roberta Maierhofer |
DHF Visiting Professorship for Dr Maja Hultmann (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) at the Centre for Jewish Studies | Susanne Korbel |
Sponsorship of the 5th & 6th semesters of his Bachelor's programme in Early Music (KUG) | Jonathan Berk |
Funding for her Master's programme in Harp (KUG) | Abigail Lozneanu |
DHF Guest Professorship for Anna Shirav Ph.D. (Tel Aviv University) at the Faculty of Catholic Theology | Katharina Pyschny |
Funding for her research into the lives of Jewish veterinarians and their descendants during and after the Second World War | Lisa Rettl |
Funding for 2 semesters of his Master's degree in Music Theatre Coaching and Orchestra Conducting (KUG) | Naor Shani |
2023
Project | Applicant | |
3rd & 4th semester Bachelor's programme Harpichord and Basso Continuo at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Jonathan Berk | |
4-semester Master's programme in Music Theatre Correpetition (Orchestral Conducting) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Naor Shani | |
4-semester Master's degree programme Master of Music - Harp at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Abigail Lozneanu | |
Participation in archaeological excavations in Tel Moza as a representative of the Department for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the University of Graz | Patrick Marko | |
Research trip to visit archives in Graz on the topic: Bringing Else Frenkel-Brunswik Out of the Shadows: Tracing the Untold Jewish History of the Political Psychology of Predjudice | Leor Zmigrod | |
Compulsory semester in Heidelberg as part of the Joint Master's Programme Jewish Studies | Regina Bacher | |
10 scholarships for musicians to participate in the International Summer Academy 2023 of the Institute for Early Music | Susanne Scholz | |
Participation in the International Summer Academy 2023 of the Institute for Early Music | Eviatar Etienne Gaber | |
Participation in the 2023 International Summer Academy of the Institute for Early Music | Lidor Ram Mesika |
2022
Project | Applicant |
Lecture "The Holocaust: "The Holocaust Then and Now. Spanning the Void." by Prof. Dr. Nils Roemer, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, UT Dallas Texas, USA on 9 November 2022 (University of Graz) | Eva-Maria Trinkaus |
Sponsorship of 2 semesters harpsichord and basso continuo at the KUG | Jonathan Berk |
Funding for 2 semesters of the Master's programme in Composition at KUG | Shiri Riseman |
Research on the estate and works of Karl Israelson-Ilbing at the Avieand Sarah Arenson Built Heritage Research Centre in Haifa | Antje Senarclens de Grancy |
Dr Marc Volovici (DHF Lecture) in the course of a workshop on the topic of "Interrelationships" | Olaf Terpitz |
Master's programme "Opera Coaching/Conducting" for 2 semesters at the KUG | Shani Naor |
Stay in Israel at Tel Aviv University to participate in a workshop | Patrick Wiedner |
Roberta Maierhofer for Anat Gilboa (DHF Lecture at the GUSEGG 2022) | Roberta Maierhofer |
7 scholarships for the GUSEGG-Graz International Summer School Seggau 2023 | Roberta Maierhofer |
Lectures by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert & Anat Gilboa at the conference Religious Discourses in Western Democracies - Initiative Christian-Jewish Study Week in Conversation with Islam (25-28 July 2022) at Seggau Castle | Irmtraud Fischer |
2021
Project | Applicant |
Lecture by Prof Asher Biemann (University of Virginia) on the topic "Crisis and Rediscovery of Humanity: Jewish Thinkers immediately around 1945" | Olaf Terpitz |
5 scholarships for the GUSEGG-Graz International Summer School Seggau 2022 "Re-Measuring, Re-Calculating, Re-Counting: State - Society - Religion in Transition" | Roberta Maierhofer |
Lecture at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences | Peter Macheroux |
Scholarships for the Summer Academy of the Institute 15 Early Music and Performance Practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | Susanne Scholz |
2020
Project | Applicant |
The Political Philosophy of Zionism | David Haunschmied |
Further research on the Holocaust in Israeli art at the Centre for Jewish Studies in Graz | Anat Gilboa |
Fieldwork for PhD thesis on contemporary social, political and academic reappraisal/dealing with the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina | Richard Newell |
Extension of funding for the KUG Early Music Summer School into summer semester 2021 due to COVID | Susanne Scholz |
Elazar Benyoëtz between languages, cultures and religions | Anna Rosa Schlechter |
Study visit to Graz | Tom Friedner |
2019
Project | Applicant |
Study visit at the Hebrew University | Benedict Dopplinger |
Scholarship for participation in the Summer School Beer Sheva | Jakob Gruber |
Scholarship for participation in the Summer School Beer Sheva | Lukas Stadler |
Scholarship for participation in the Summer School Beer Sheva | Andrea Elisabeth Kreditsch |
Invitation as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University (The Sacler Faculty of Medicine) and further working meetings | Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond |
Lecturer support and 2 student scholarships for the event "Religious Discourses in Western Democracies - Initiative Christian-Jewish Study Week in dialogue with Islam" | Irmtraud Fischer |
7 research grants for the conference "Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe" | Olaf Terpitz |
6 two-week language scholarships for German in Graz | Hebrew University Jerusalem |
5 scholarships for the Graz University International Summer School Seggau | Application: GUSEGG |
One-month research stay in Jerusalem for archive and library research for the dissertation "Der vergessene Leichnam. The cultural significance of the dead body in medieval Ashkenaz" | Anna Lidor-Osprian |
Research stays in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the dissertation "Where is Jasenovac? Locating the legacy of a concentration camp between competing narratives of denial and distortion" | Richard S. A. Newell |
four scholarships Summer Academy of the Institute 15 Early Music and Performance Practice of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz at Vorau Abbey | Susanne Scholz |
Student scholarships for the excursion "Vienna and Budapest: The Jewish Expierence" | CJS - Susanne Korbel |
Scholarship for participation in the joint seminar " The Jewish Experience in Europe: Vienna and Budapest" with the lecture on "Jews in China" | Xu Xin |
2018
Project |
Travel expenses for lecture and workshop at the institute of Prof Matti Mintz (Psychobiology Research Unit) at Tel Aviv University |
Travel expenses for Hebrew course at Ben Gurion University in Israel |
Research stay in Israel |
Research stay in Jerusalem |
6 scholarships for students of the Hebrew University for German courses in Graz |
Excursion support for six students "The Jewish Experience in Europe: Vienna and Budapest" |
Scholarship KUG Graz |
Semester abroad at the Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya in Israel |
5 scholarships for the Graz University International Summer School Seggau |
Scholarships for Israeli students for the Summer Academy for Early Music 2019 |
2017
Project |
Travel expenses for speaker at the summer school: "Christian-Jewish Bible Week in dialogue with Islam" |
Research semester in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Research stay in Israel from April to October 2017 |
Travel and accommodation expenses for speakers at the "Doing Gender in Exile" conference |
Participation in the 2017 Summer University at Ben-Gurion University |
6 language scholarships for the summer of 2017 |
Internship at the Leo Baeck Institute |
6 Scholarships for language courses for summer 2018 |
7 Scholarships for the Graz University International Summer School |
Travel expenses for speakers at a conference for young researchers |
Excursion support for 8 students of the course "The Jewish Experience in Europe: Vienna and Budapest" |
Travel and accommodation costs and registration fee for Israeli students for the summer academy "Early Music" |
Exhibition project at Graz University Library on the subject of "Book burnings" |
2016
Project |
Travel grant to New York for research work on the dissertation "Between Budapest, Vienna and Central Park. Jews and ('popular') cultural transformations" |
Project on Austrian exiles ("Duneraboys") at the National Archives of Australia (research visit, two-month travel grant) |
Master's degree in orchestral conducting at the KUG |
Research stay in Jerusalem for the project "Louise and Egon: War letters from a Jewish woman to her husband in 2017" |
Travel expenses support to US archives for the master's thesis on the ancient historian Franz Schehl |
Research stay in London for the project: "The Jewish Displaced Person Camp Admont 1946 - 1949" |
M.A. Government Programme in "Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security Studies" at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzlia for 11 months |
Support for the travel and accommodation costs of four Israeli speakers at the Navigating the Unknown conference |
Translation project: Gerschon Schoffmann: Not Forever. Selected stories |
2014
Project |
German courses for students in Graz |
Seven scholarships for the "Jewish Studies" module of the International Summer School Seggau 2014 |
Scholarship for a two-month stay at Tel Aviv University |
Scholarship for archive research for the project: "Austrian art and antiques dealers in exile" |
Five scholarships for a one-week excursion to Odessa under the title "Harbour City - Jewish Odessa" |
2013
Project |
German courses for students in Graz |
3 scholarships for the summer school in Beer Sheva |
Scholarship for composition studies at the KUG |
2012
Project |
Language courses in Graz |
Archive research in Israel for the book project: "Jewish Bad Gleichenberg" |
Archive research in Israel for the thesis project: Aliyah - Jewish immigration to the State of Israel |
2x participation in summer school in Beer Sheva |
2x scholarship for studies at the KUG |
Scholarship for studies at the FH Joanneum |
Scholarship for a research stay in the USA on the topic: Improving Water Management: Comparing Innovative Legal and Policy Regimes of the Jordan River and the Colorado River |
Research stay in Israel on the topic: Epidemiological study of enteral fed children in Israel |
Study visit to Heidelberg at the University for Jewish Studies |
2010
Project |
Scholarship for German courses in Graz at the Centre for Austrian Studies / Hebrew University |
"Jewish Migration from Austria to Canada 1945 to 1955" |
2x study in Graz as part of the Joint Degree "Jewish Studies. History of Jewish Cultures" |
4x participation in the summer university in Beer Sheva |
2x scholarship for participation in the summer school in Seggauberg |
Nazi rule in the district of Oberwart with special consideration of the persecution of the Jewish population" |
"Magical Techniques in the Jewish Babylonian and Mandaic Incantation bows" |
The Hebrew prose of SY Agnon in comparison with that of Franz Kafka |
Studies at the KUG |
2009
Project |
Language - Nation - Identity. The "Jewish languages" in the Habsburg Monarchy (research stay in Israel) |
8 scholarships for the Graz University Summer School 2010 "Jewish Studies" |
Scholarship for her music studies in Graz |
Black Milk. Withheld letters from the death camps of Tansnistria (project funding in Czernowitz) |
Study visit to Israel at the Interdisciplinary Centre Herzlija (IDC) |
Lecture at the Austrian Pharmacological Society on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Otto Loewi's appointment to Graz |
The Bible as a frame of reference for Stella Rotenberg's poetry (research stay in London) |
2 study visits to Israel at the Hebrew University |
Study visit to Graz |
8 language scholarships for German in Graz |
Research stay in Graz |
2008
Project |
Support for the Summer University of Music Graz / Early Music |
Travel grant for guest lecture in Graz |
3x grant for research stay in Israel |
Grant for research stay in Canada on the topic of "Jewish migration literature in francophone Canada" |
3x grant for studies in Graz |
2007
Project |
Language course at the Rothberg International School, Jerusalem |
Studies at the Department of Neoantology at the Medical University of Graz |
Synagogues in Vienna (1823-1938). From Classicism to New Building |
"The Experts" - The Involvement of Austrian Art Specialists from Museums and the Art Trade in the Nazi Theft of Art and Cultural Property. |
Scholarships for students from Israel for the "International Summer Academy for Early Music Graz" |
Study visit to the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (Israel) |
Language course at the Rothberg International School, Jerusalem |
Language course at the International School at the University of Haifa |
Viennese Jewry in the suburbs around 1900 |
8 language scholarships for German courses in Graz |
2006
Project |
Language course at the Rothberg International School, Jerusalem) |
The Israeli Palestinian Dialogue: Foms, Aspects and Challenges |
Organic Farmers' Local Knowledge |
Language behaviour and language awareness among francophone Jewish immigrants in Israel |
Euopean Forum / Centre for Austrian Studies (Hebrew University): 8 language scholarships for German courses in Graz. |
2005
Project |
Old-New Narratives of Fascism: a Critical Account |
The Image in Yiddish Literature. On book illustrations in the circle of El Lissintzky |
"A single people of brothers". Myth and reality in the Zionist concept of the united Jewish nation 1897-1914. |
The Austrian-Jewish Identity of Stefan Zweig and Franz Werfel as Reflected in their Jeremiah. |
European Forum / Centre for Austrian Studies (Hebrew University): 8 language scholarships for German courses in Graz. |