CERGE-EI, with financial support provided by the Global Development Network (GDN) announces a research competition in all fields of the social sciences. Proposals are invited from economists, demographers, political scientists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Projects with a significant commercial aspect or that propose funding the distribution of previous results (such as book preparation) rather than original research are explicitly excluded.

The sponsors have identified several priority areas of research. While funding for research in other areas will
be provided, projects in these areas will receive priority:
I. Enterprise Development and Behavior including Corporate Governance and Restructuring
II. Labor Markets including Retirement, Social Assistance and Health Economics
III. Globalization including Regional and International Economic Policy Coordination
IV. The Reform Process including Public Finance, Fiscal Burden, and Taxation
V. Education including Educational Policy, Reform, Funding and Outcomes
VI. Urban Policy / Development, Rural Policy / Development

Funding Details
Maximum funding will be US $20,000 although it is expected that the vast majority of grants awarded will be for substantially smaller amounts. Grants in excess of US $15,000 will be granted only in exceptional cases.
The median grant awarded to start in January 2009 was approximately US $8,200. Grants must begin no later than 31 December 2009 and end no later than 31 December 2010, although a six-month no-cost extension request may be made during the year.
Applicants must be residents of any of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo (UNMIK), Latvia, Lithuania, fYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Applicants must be resident for the substantial majority of each year in the country from which they are applying although they may be of any nationality or citizenship.
Further details in the attachment!
In the interest of diversity, no grants will be made to persons who have served as a principal researcher in a
GDN Regional Research Competition-funded grant in the past three years.

Four complete printed copies of all proposals including all of the components detailed below must be
postmarked by 15 July 2009. Final award decisions will be announced in December 2009.

For further information see attachment and contact:
research.competition@cerge-ei.cz

Note: In addition to the normal research competition, there will be a special set of grants to support research
dealing with the post-communist experience of cities. These grants have slightly different rules and an
application deadline of 07 June 2009. For more information see:
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/gdn/Cities_Announcement.pdf

Source: http://www.cerge.cuni.cz/gdn/regional_research_competition/