It brings together junior and senior scholars for a week each year to confront a focused and novel research topic through hands-on contact with instruments, techniques, as well as the study of texts. Approximately a dozen fellows meet with five or six senior scholars, experts in the topics for an intensive seminar under the sponsorship of one of the five participating institutions. To promote interactions of junior and senior scholars around a focused topic across national boundaries. To stimulate research in new areas of the history of science. Senior scholars and topics Prof.
Applications are open to scholars from all nationalities.
As a rule, post-doctoral applicants should have received the Ph.D. or equivalent in the History of Science within the past seven years. Exceptions are possible, but will need special justification.