Guest Researchers

The IRS is an interdisciplinary institute and welcomes guest researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Since its foundation, the IRS has hosted geographers, political scientists, economists, sociologists, historians and scholars from planning science. Cooperation amongst guest researchers and IRS scholars (on lectures, publications and third-party funding applications for example) enhances the institute's research efforts and contributes to the institute's ongoing development.

At the IRS, guest researchers benefit from an excellent research infrastructure, and from the institute's close ties to universities and non-university research institutes in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. During their stay, guest researchers are invited to participate in and contribute to workshops and conferences held at the IRS. The institute can provide three fully equipped workspaces for guests.

Current Guest Researcher

Osnabrück University

Since 2013 the IRS has supported international guest researchers with an institutional scholarship programme in order to finance their stay at the institute. Even in the age of digitalization, excellent research requires personal contact and joint working periods; the "IRS Fellowship Programme" shall enable this intensive academic collaboration. more infos

Selection of Current and Former Guest Researchers

Financing your stay

IRS Fellowship Programme

DAAD scholarships

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions  (European Commission): Postdoctoral Fellowships

European Research Council (ERC)

In almost all countries national funding schemes exist that allow researchers to conduct research abroad. Please check with your national funding organization(s) if there are programs providing funding for researchers to come to Germany.

Travel and accommodation

The IRS can easily be reached by all means of local transport; from Berlin you can travel to the institute in less than 30 minutes (see directions). Unfortunately, we cannot provide accommodation for guests, but there are suited apartments available for rent – either in

Erkner

or Berlin.