Research Initiatives

Mandel initiatives (for Members of the Ph.D. honors program)

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities seeks to encourage research-driven initiative among members of the Ph.D. honors program. To this end, grants will be offered in the 2025-2026 academic year to support creative academic activities outside the regular curriculum. These may include: international collaborations with students from Israel and abroad, organizing workshops and study groups (including support for projects initiated by Havruta), and similar initiatives.

Students are encouraged to collaborate with institutes and researchers both within and beyond the faculty and to raise additional funds and resources. All activities must take place in the Mandel Building.

Mandel commons (For all programs of the Mandel school)

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Study in the Humanities seeks to encourage research entrepreneurship among all participants in the various programs in the building in a way that crosses programs and stages in the academic career. Therefore, in the coming 2025/26 academic year, we are offering grants to finance creative academic activities outside of the regular program, such as: organizing workshops and learning groups that include members from all programs (Buber fellows, MA and PhD honors programs, Mandel- Scholion Center). Of course, colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities and other places are also welcome to participate and raise additional funds and resources. Applicants for this grant are not required to submit item E on the list of documents and should submit their application through the relevant scholarship page on the scholarships website.

The activity must take place in the Mandel Building.

Applicants for both CFA's will provide the following documents:

  1. application form
  2. A file describing the importance of the project and the nature of the activity (up to one page)
  3. A Budget plan according to explanations on the registration website (up to one page)
  4. A letter on behalf of the relevant party you are collaborating with if there is such a party (institution/researcher/institute/other)
  5. A letter of recommendation from a faculty member at the Hebrew University in the relevant field, addressing the importance of the project.
  6. CVs of the organizers (up to one page)

The call for proposals for the 2025/26  has closed.
A call for proposals for the 2026/27 academic year is expected to be published during the summer.

The application must be submitted through the scholarship submission system:

 https://scholarships.ekmd.huji.ac.il

For additional information contact Abigail Rosenstein, Honors Program Coordinator