Centrul pentru Cercetarea Istoriei Relatiilor Internationale si Studii Culturale "Grigore Gafencu"

Updated:

April 25, 2012

The “Grigore Gafencu” Junior Award

It was established in November 2009 to increase scientific emulation and to honor the most outstanding results obtained in a calendar year as a result of research in one of these areas of research:

Modern History;
Contemporary History;
History of international relations;
Diplomatic history;
Gafencu Gregory's life and personality;

The prize is open to young researchers (aged up to 35 years when submitting application), members or associates of the "Grigore Gafencu" Research Center for the the History of International Relations and consists of providing a fixed amount of minimum 500 lei coming from donations or sponsorships.

The application file will consist of:

application form - download from here:Premiul Grigore Gafencu.doc
submission of a representative work published or defended in that year (scientific article, chapter from a book chapter, from a Ph.D. thesis or MA dissertation) sent both electronically and on paper (these will be returned later to applicants);
whenever works are published in Romanian, the article / chapter must necessarily be accompanied by a comprehensive summary in a foreign language of international circulation of at least 1,500 words;

The awards regard only the quality of the works submitted, but it would be an advantage if they were presented at international or national prestige conferences or are the results of international and national grants, for which evidence demonstrating this will be filed;

Applications will be submitted electronically to the e-mail postmaster@centrulgafencu.ro. The work on paper will be sent either by mail to the Gafencu Center (postal date will be the latest deadline for closing the application) or be filed with the Gafencu Center by the deadline for closing the application.

The jury for the award of this prize will be appointed by the director of the research center and its scientific board and will include at least one outstanding foreign and one Romanian researcher coming from other research institutions.

If none of the candidates does meet quality criteria, the prize is carried over to next year.

Application deadline for first edition of the prize award is Friday, October 15, 2010;

Award Ceremony will take place in the first half of December 2010.

What We Do

The research center bearing Grigore Gafencu`s name is focusing on research and study of the history of the European international relations, an area of investigation covered with specialists and young researchers for the period starting with the mid-19th century and focused on the 20th century. The center has already been involved in a number of national research grants founded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and in international grants. The center is also issuing its own review, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, which has been opened ever since its inception to the voluntary contributions of fellow researchers from all around Europe and beyond.

Additionally, the center has been engaged from the very beginning in developing connections with other European institutions of research. Thus far, the center and its members are involved in academic exchanges with such universities from Finland (University of Helsinki and University of Turku), France (Universite de Poitiers, Universite de Savoie), Greece (University Democritus of Komotini), Italy (Universite ca Foscari di Venezia) and Spain (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha). The center is aiming at maintaining and developing these fruitful contacts and to promote new ones with other prestigious institutions of research at academic level whose scopes are similar and bordering its purposes.

About Us

"Grigore Gafencu" Research Center for the the History of International Relations and Cultural Studies, although young, is in terms of staff members and young researchers one of the best represented such research center in the Valahia University of Targoviste. The purpose of the center is to pay a quality tribute to the memory and activity of the prestigious Romanian diplomat and analyst Grigore Gafencu (1892-1957). A former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania (1938-1940) and his country`s envoy to Soviet Union in the fateful years of 1940-1941, Gafencu has moved to Switzerland since 1941. In exile, Gafencu wrote one of the earliest books approaching the causes of the World War II (Preliminaires de la Guerre a l'est. De l'accord de Moscou (23 Aout 1939) aux hostilites en Russie (22 Juin 1941), Egloff, Friburg, 1944), providing an exceptional insight on those troubling European events. The conclusion Gafencu drew from the developments leading to World War II has played their part in making him an active supporter of the ideas of European unity.

News and Events

Sedinta

Membrii grantului "Utopia versus realism în politica externa a României de la Primul Razboi Mondial pâna în 1975" sunt invitati la o sedinta de proiect pe data de 26 aprilie, orele 16.

Call for papers

Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, Call for papers,

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