Một nhận xét về cách phát ngôn của những người đứng đầu

 

Những nhận xét sau đây của GS Nguyễn Văn Tuấn nên được xem là lời khuyên cho những ai đang hoặc sẽ đảm đương cương vị lãnh đạo một đơn vị xã hội nào đấy (một cơ quan, một phòng trong một cơ quan, một gia đình, một đơn vị quân đội, một quốc gia…)

 

GS Nguyễn Văn Tuấn

21-07-2014

Những người lãnh đạo giỏi và có bản lĩnh họ không chỉ nói, mà còn thực hiện những gì họ nói. Ngay cả cách nói, mỗi một lần phát biểu họ đều để lại những câu mà báo chí có trích trích dẫn (quotable words) hay làm cho người nghe phải suy nghĩ vì nó có cái wisdom trong đó. Chẳng hạn như khi nói về những việc làm liên quan đến tai nạn máy bay MH17, thủ tướng Úc nói “Mục tiêu của chúng ta là đảm bảo phẩm giá, sự tôn trọng, và công lí cho người quá cố và người đang sống.” Đó là một câu có thể trích dẫn.

Nhìn lại giới lãnh đạo VN, tôi thấy hình như họ không có cái tư chất về ăn nói của chính khách phương Tây. Chính khách VN quen với đường mòn chữ nghĩa mang đậm bản chất XHCN nên họ chỉ loanh quanh những câu chữ quen thuộc. Họ không nói được cái gì cụ thể, mà chỉ xoay quanh các khẩu hiệu quen thuộc, kiểu như “dân giàu, nước mạnh, dân chủ, công bằng, văn minh.” Đọc qua nhiều bài phát biểu của các lãnh đạo VN tôi nhận ra vài đặc điểm chính (có thể chưa đủ) như sau:

Thứ nhất là tính chung chung, không có một cái gì cụ thể. Có thể nói rằng thói quen phát biểu chung chung là đặc điểm số 1 của chính khách VN, họ không có khả năng nói cái gì cụ thể, tất cả chỉ chung chung, ai muốn hiểu sao thì hiểu. Ví dụ như phát biểu “Đặc biệt là, tình hình Biển Đông hiện đang diễn biến rất phức tạp, nghiêm trọng, đòi hỏi toàn Đảng, toàn dân, toàn quân ta phải hết sức tỉnh táo, sáng suốt, tăng cường đoàn kết, cả nước một lòng, kiên quyết bảo vệ độc lập, chủ quyền và toàn vẹn lãnh thổ của Tổ quốc; đồng thời giữ vững môi trường hòa bình, ổn định để xây dựng và phát triển đất nước.” Đọc xong đoạn văn chúng ta chẳng có thông tin nào, mà tất cả chỉ là những rhetoric tầm thường, giống như những khẩu hiệu được nối kết với nhau. Chúng ta cũng không có thêm thông tin, ngoại trừ một chữ rất chung chung là “phức tạp”. Hai chữ “phức tạp” có thể nói là rất phổ biến ở VN, đụng đến cái gì họ không giải thích được, không mô tả cụ thể được, thì họ bèn thay thế bằng hai chữ “phức tạp” mà chẳng ai hiểu gì cả. Cả một đoạn văn 74 chữ, chúng ta không thấy một ý nào cụ thể và không thể trích dẫn bất cứ câu nào.

Thứ hai là dùng nhiều sáo ngữ. Ví dụ tiêu biểu cho đặc điểm này là bài nói chuyện nhân kỉ niệm 40 năm ngày kí Hiệp định Paris: “Hiệp định Paris là đỉnh cao thắng lợi của mặt trận ngoại giao nước ta thời kỳ chống Mỹ, cứu nước, là mốc son trong trang sử vàng của nền ngoại giao cách mạng Việt Nam.” Chú ý những chữ “mốc son”, “sử vàng”, “mặt trận ngoại giao”, tất cả đều là những sáo ngữ. Có một loại sáo ngữ khác là chúng mang tính tích cực nhưng không có ý nghĩa thực tế. Vì dụ như bài diễn văn nhân dịp kết thúc một đại hội đảng, có đoạn: “Sau hơn 15 năm thực hiện Nghị quyết Trung ương 5 khóa VIII về văn hóa, tư duy lý luận về văn hóa của chúng ta đã có bước phát triển …. Nhiều phong trào văn hóa đem lại hiệu quả thiết thực. Truyền thống văn hóa gia đình, dòng họ, cộng đồng… được phát huy.” Chúng ta chú ý thấy nào là “phát triển”, “phát huy”, “hiệu quả thiết thực”, nhưng vì chúng không có một dữ liệu cụ thể nào nên tất cả chỉ là rỗng tuếch về ý nghĩa. Thật vậy, đọc xong đoạn phát biểu này chúng ta không thấy bất cứ một điểm cụ thể nào để nhớ hay để làm minh hoạ. Chẳng có một ý tưởng nào để đáng nhớ.

Một trong những sáo ngữ chúng ta hay thấy trong các bài phát biểu là “đánh giá cao”. Ví dụ như “tôi cám ơn và đánh giá cao bài phát biểu rất tốt đẹp của Ngài Thủ tướng Hà Lan”, “tôi đánh giá cao và chân thành cám ơn sự hỗ trợ của Chính phủ …”. “Đánh giá cao” hình như là một thuật ngữ đặc thù xã hội chủ nghĩa nó vẫn còn sống sót đến ngày hôm nay. Thoạt đầu nghe qua “đánh giá cao” thì cũng hay hay, nhưng nghĩ kĩ thì thấy câu này chẳng có ý nghĩa gì cả. Thế nào là đánh giá cao, cao cái gì? Tôi thấy nó là một sáo ngữ cực kì vô duyên và vô dụng.

Thứ ba là không có thông tin (lack of information). Có nhiều lãnh đạo VN quen tính nói rất nhiều, nhưng nếu chịu khó xem xét kĩ chúng ta sẽ thấy họ chẳng nói gì cả. “Chẳng nói” vì những gì họ nói ra không có thông tin, tất cả chỉ là những câu chữ lắp ráp vào nhau cho ra những câu văn chứ không có dữ liệu. Do đó, có khi đọc xong một đoạn văn chúng ta chẳng hiểu tác giả muốn nói gì. Chẳng hạn như phát biểu về hiến pháp, ông chủ tịch QH nói: “Chúng tôi cũng hiểu rằng một bộ phận, một số người trong các tầng lớp nhân dân và ngay một số ĐBQH cũng còn ý kiến khác. Tuy nhiên tuyệt đại nhân dân và Quốc hội có thể khẳng định đã đồng tình cao với bản Hiến pháp thông qua lần này. Với quyền năng nhân dân trao cho Quốc hội, chúng ta đã thể hiện được đại đa số nguyện vọng của toàn dân, của Quốc hội với tinh thần làm chủ của nhân dân, chúng ta sẽ biểu quyết theo tinh thần đó.” Câu cú và cấu trúc ý tưởng chẳng đâu vào đâu. Lúc thì quyền năng nhân dân trao cho Quốc hội, lúc thì nguyện vọng của toàn dân, của Quốc hội, lại còn đèo theo một câu “tinh thần làm chủ của nhân dân”. Câu chữ cứ nhảy nhót loanh quanh, chẳng đâu vào đâu, và cuối cùng là chẳng có gì để nói!

Thứ tư là ngôn ngữ khẩu hiệu. Có thể nói rằng rất rất nhiều bài nói chuyện và diễn văn của các lãnh đạo VN chỉ là những khẩu hiệu được lắp ráp vào với nhau. Có những khẩu hiệu quá quen thuộc nên chẳng ai chất vấn tính chính xác của nó. Ví dụ như câu “Trong niềm tự hào, chúng ta thành kính tưởng nhớ và bày tỏ lòng biết ơn vô hạn với Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh vĩ đại – vị lãnh tụ thiên tài, Anh hùng giải phóng dân tộc, danh nhân văn hóa thế giới …”, có lẽ chẳng ai để ý đến chữ “danh nhân văn hóa thế giới”. Nếu người bình thường phát biểu như thế thì chắc người ta cũng lắc đầu bỏ qua, nhưng lãnh đạo mà phát biểu như thế thì chẳng có gì sáng tạo, chỉ lặp lại những câu chữ đã có trước đây.

Một loại ngôn ngữ khẩu hiệu khác mang tính tự hào. Tự hào là một “đặc sản” của các vị lãnh đạo VN, đi đâu cũng nghe họ nói về tự hào. Điều này cũng hiểu được, vì làm lãnh đạo thì phải gieo niềm tự hào vào người dân. Nhưng gieo không đúng chỗ và gieo mãi thì có thể trở thành phản tác dụng. Thử đọc bài diễn văn có đoạn “Chúng ta tự hào về đất nước Việt Nam anh hùng, nhân dân Việt Nam anh hùng, tự hào về những con người giản dị bằng những việc làm tốt của mình ở mọi lúc, mọi nơi đã góp phần làm nên vẻ đẹp văn hóa của con người Việt Nam, đất nước Việt Nam; góp phần quyết định để xây dựng đất nước ta ngày càng giàu mạnh.” Tôi tự hỏi có cần quá nhiều tự hào như thế. Đất nước anh hùng, con người anh hùng, vẻ đẹp văn hoá, v.v. nhưng tại sao đất nước vẫn còn nghèo và phải “ăn xin” hết nơi này đến nơi khác và ăn xin kinh niên, con người vẫn còn đứng dưới hạng trung bình trên thế giới. Thay vì tự ru ngủ là anh hùng và giàu mạnh, tôi nghĩ lãnh đạo phải nói thẳng và nói thật là đất nước vẫn còn rất nghèo, tài nguyên chẳng có gì, và cả nước đang phải đương đầu với ngoại xâm.

Thứ năm là loại ngôn ngữ hành chính hoá. Nếu chú ý kĩ chúng ta sẽ thấy phần lớn những bài nói chuyện, bài diễn văn các lãnh đạo đọc là họ nói với đảng viên, với quan chức, công nhân viên, với quân đội, v.v. chứ không phải nói với người dân. Có lẽ chính vì thế mà ngôn ngữ của họ thường mang tính hành chính. Có những chữ mà hình như họ sử dụng quá nhiều nên chẳng ai để ý ý nghĩa thật của nó, như “Trong thời kỳ đổi mới, đẩy mạnh công nghiệp hóa, hiện đại hóa và hội nhập quốc tế, đối ngoại phải tiếp tục là mặt trận quan trọng góp phần phát triển đất nước, bảo vệ Tổ quốc.” Đối với người dân bình thường, ít ai hiểu công nghiệp hoá, hiện đại hoá, hội nhập quốc tế là cái gì. Có thể nói đó là những ngôn ngữ xa lạ đối với người dân.

Những bài diễn văn của các chính khác phương Tây thường rất sinh động, thực tế, và có khi … vui. Khán giả cảm thấy gần gũi với diễn giả. Ngược lại, những bài diễn văn của lãnh đạo VN thường cứng nhắc, công thức, và lúc nào cũng tỏ ra hết sức nghiêm trọng (dù sự việc chẳng có gì nghiêm trọng). Khán giả nghe họ đọc hơn là diễn. Một phần có lẽ do lãnh đạo VN chưa quen với văn hoá hài, và họ cũng muốn tỏ ra là người quan trọng. Dù gì đi nữa thì những bài nói chuyện của lãnh đạo VN rất khó gần với người dân do ngôn ngữ cứng đơ và kém thân thiện, và cách họ triển khai bài nói chuyện quá xa rời công chúng.

Dĩ nhiên, những đặc điểm này không phải là độc quyền của các lãnh đạo VN, mà thỉnh thoảng các chính khách phương Tây cũng vướng phải. Khi họ vướng phải, người dân biết vị chính khách đó có vấn đề, hoặc là không nắm vững vấn đề, hoặc là lúng túng. Vì không nắm vững vấn đề nên họ nói chung chung. Có người nghĩ nói chung chung là nói “đa tầng”, nhưng thật ra đó chỉ là cách nguỵ biện thô thiển. VN nói về hội nhập quốc tế, nhưng với loại ngôn ngữ đặc thù XHCN trên đây, tôi nghĩ các lãnh đạo VN sẽ rất khó gần với lãnh đạo thuộc thế giới văn minh.

Nguồn: FB Nguyen Tuan

Funding sources

Countries. Alphabetical order

Canada

International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
IDRC is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. IDRC funds research activities that are designed to provide direct benefits to developing countries and their citizens.

Germany
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) aims at strengthening regional and interdisciplinary networking between the scientists and scholars sponsored by the foundation, at supporting worldwide contacts and at introducing young scientists to the work of the Humboldt Foundation and to research in Germany. The program each year enables 500 young highly qualified scholars resident outside Germany who hold doctorates to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany (age limit: 40 years).
Submission Deadline: Anytime

German Academic Exchange Service
http://www.daad.de/en/index.html
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst supports and promotes all areas relating to science, research, language, teaching and very much more. The 200 and more programmes range from short-term exchanges for research or teaching purposes through to doctoral scholarships lasting several years for graduates from developing countries, from information visits by delegations of foreign university vicechancellors through to the long-term regional programmes conceived to establish efficient higher education systems in the Third World.

Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation
http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/fellowship/en/start.html
The purpose of Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation is to promote science and research focussed on the interrelationship between humanity, environment and technology, and particularly to support interdisciplinary approaches to these issues.

Heinrich Böll Foundation
http://www.boell.de/asp/frameset_en.html
The Heinrich Böll Foundation, is a legally autonomous and intellectually open political foundation. Its foremost task is political education in Germany and abroad with the aim of promoting informed democratic opinion, socio-political commitment and mutual understanding.

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
http://www.rosalux.de/engl/home.htm
The Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation is particularly active in adult and youth political educational in the Federal Republic of Germany and has developed into a nationwide institution in this field. The Foundation has, the possiblity to offer financial assistance to advanced students, post-graduates and scholars from other countries.

Volkswagen Foundation
http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/english.html
The Volkswagen Foundation provides financial support for academic research in all fields in Germany as well as other countries. The main thrust is to stimulate new interdisciplinary developments, to help create highly qualified research capacities, and to establish novel path-breaking fields of research.
Submission Deadline: Anytime

Greece

Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Foreigners' Fellowship Programme
http://www.onassis.gr
Annual programme of research grants and educational scholarships which is addressed to non Greeks, full members of National Academies, University Professors of all levels (PhD holders), postdoctoral researchers, post-graduate students and PhD candidates.

Israel

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
http://www.academy.ac.il/
A major role of the Israel Academy is to promote and coordinate scholarly contacts between Israel and the international community, partly on the basis of international agreements for scientific cooperation, and partly by representing Israel in international scientific organizations. The Academy is the signatory to over thirty international agreements providing for reciprocal visits by Israeli and foreign scholars and joint scientific workshops.
Submission Deadline: Anytime
Israel Science Foundation
http://www.isf.org.il
The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) is Israel's major research funding organization. Set up by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the ISF supports academic research in all fields.
Japan

Asahi Glass Foundation
http://www.af-info.or.jp/eng/subsidy/grant.html
The Asahi Glass Foundation supports research in leading-edge scientific and technological fields and recognizes individual and organizational efforts to solve issues of concern to people around the world. Human and social sciences research assistance is awarded for projects that endeavour to find solutions to serious problems that have arisen as a result of rapid social change.

Canon Foundation in Europe
http://www.canonfoundation.org/pages/main.htm
The Canon Foundation in Europe is a philanthropic, grant-making institution, active in the promotion of international cultural and scientific relations between Europe and Japan. Annually, it grants up to 15 fellowships to young, highly qualified, Master's or Doctor's degree European and Japanese researchers, not older than 40 years. The fellowships are awarded regardless of disciplines and existing employment positions.

Toshiba International Foundation
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/tifo/english/doc05/index.htm
The Foundation strives to contribute to the development of international understanding by promoting exchange activities, including the organization and sponsorship of symposia and seminars that further worldwide understanding of Japan. The Foundation also participates in programs designed to support development of international communities.

Toyota Foundation
http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/e_guide/eken.htm
The Toyota Foundation is a grant-making organization dedicated to the goals of realizing greater human fulfilment and contributing to the development of a human-oriented society. In general grants are awarded to individuals or to individuals on behalf of a group, and not to organizations. Activities supported may include individual or group research projects, conferences or public seminars, publications, or other modalities.

Nehterlands

International Institute for Asian Studies
http://www.iias.nl/iias/fellowships.html
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral research centre. Its main objective is to encourage the study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in this field. The institute focuses on the humanities and the social sciences and, where relevant, on their interaction with other sciences.

The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP)
http://www.nuffic.nl/nfp/
The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) are demand-oriented fellowship programmes designed to foster institutional development. The overall aim of the NFP is to help alleviate qualitative and quantitative shortages of skilled manpower and to do so within the framework of sustainable capacity-building directed towards reducing poverty in developing countries.
Available to nationals of 57 selected countries.
The NFP offers fellowships for master's degree programmes, for PhD studies, for short courses, tailor-made training, refresher courses.

Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
http://www.fct.mces.pt/
Financial support for post-doctoral fellowships in Portugal is available to all citizens of the European Union.
Spain

Fundación Caja Madrid
http://www.fundacioncajamadrid.org/Fundacion/fun_inicio
La Fundación Caja Madrid mantiene un amplio Programa de Becas, para licenciados y titulados superiores en España, destinadas a la ampliación de estudios de postgrado en el extranjero en economía, sociología, ciencias políticas, derecho político y constitucional.

Fundación Carolina
http://www.fundacioncarolina.es/
La Fundación Carolina, con sede en la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, ofrece un programa de becas dirigidas a jóvenes titulados superiores, profesionales e investigadores de los países que integran la Comunidad Iberoamericana de Naciones.

Jaume Bofill Foundation
http://www.fbofill.org/
The Jaume Bofill Foundation is concerned with promoting initiatives conducive to achieving a better understanding of society in Catalonia (Spain). Supports research projects in social sciences falling within its general program.

Fundación La Caixa
http://www.estudis.lacaixa.comunicacions.com/webes/estudis.nsf/wurl/bqbshomecos_esp
It offers post-graduate scholarships for young Spanish graduate students in universities and research centres in Europe and USA.

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
http://www.becasmae.es/
El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación de España y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, ofrecen becas para extranjeros para estudios de postgrado en universidades y centros superiores públicos y privados en España.

Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
http://wwwn.mec.es/univ/
1- Programa de becas postdoctorales en España y extranjero, para la realización de trabajos de investigación.
2- Becas predoctorales y postdoctorales en universidades y centros de investigación de Estados Unidos.

Switzerland

Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences
http://www.fors.unil.ch
The Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences FORS was created in accordance to the law on research of the Federal Government. Its purpose is to provide services, to conduct research and to publish and disseminate research findings in the social sciences. The Foundation's activities specifically comprise the following:
- preparing, documenting and providing data of all kinds, such as are needed to conduct studies in the social sciences;
- advising researchers and other interested parties on the collection and use of data;
- developing methods and procedures for collecting and analysing data;
- promoting the application of the findings obtained.

World Society Foundation
http://www.uzh.ch/wsf/
The World Society Foundation is designed to encourage and support research on world society-its structure, historical development, and current transformation. Research proposals eligible for grants should focus on the various processes of social integration within world-wide systems (world culture, world economy, world politics and intergovernmental systems). These processes and their consequences may be studied from different levels of analysis, focusing on units such as individuals, sub-national regions, nations, transnational social networks etc.

United Kingdom

Aga Khan Foundation
http://www.akdn.org/
The mission of the Aga Khan Foundation is to develop and promote creative solutions to problems that impede social development, primarily in Asia and East Africa. It provides a limited number of scholarships each year for postgraduate studies.

Economic and Social Research Council
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/index.asp
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. It aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and quality of life. The Small Grants Scheme is part of the ESRC e-Social Science Initiative. The scheme aims to encourage applications that are particularly novel or experimental, or based around the theme of social shaping or the socio?economic impact of e-science. See the ESRC website for details, guidance notes and an application form.

Leverhulme Trust
http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/grants_awards/
The Leverhulme Trust makes awards for the support of research and education. The Trust emphasises individuals and encompasses all subject areas; its financial support is organised into grants and awards which vary in size, purpose and application procedure.

Newton International Fellowship
http://www.newtonfellowships.org/
Are you at the beginning of your research career - with the potential to be world-class?
Is your research in the natural or social sciences, engineering or humanities?
Do you want to build and maintain links with leading researchers in the UK?
Then apply now for a Newton International Fellowship

USA

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/
The Center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law and others.

Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc.
http://www2.coca-cola.com/citizenship/foundation_coke.html
Primary support for education including higher education, science and engineering. Funds organizations outside the US that promote higher education. Guidelines and application form are posted on the foundation's web site.

Earhart Foundation
The Fellowship Research Grants Program is open to individuals who have established themselves professionally and who are affiliated with educational or research institutions. Areas of interest include economics, the environment, social and economic policy. Individuals or organizations interested in this foundation should submit a letter requesting the application guidelines.
The Earhart Foundation, David Kennedy, President, 2200 Green Road, Suite H, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA

Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org/
Asset Building and Community Management Program: Grant making aims to help low-income people and communities build the financial, human, social and natural resource assets they need to overcome poverty and injustice. Categories are Economic Development and Work-Force Development: Support given to organizations that help improve the ways low-income people develop marketable job skills and acquire and retain reliable employment that provides livable wages
Community & Resource Development Program: Environment and Development sub-program gives grants helping people and groups acquire, protect and improve land, water, forests, wildlife and other natural assets in ways that help reduce poverty and injustice.
Applications are considered throughout the year.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation places a priority on the study of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world and also encourages related research projects in neuroscience, genetics, animal behaviour, the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities which illuminate modern human problems. In addition to the program of support for postdoctoral research, ten or more dissertation fellowships are awarded each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
http://www.horowitz-foundation.org/
Research grants in the social sciences

Grantlink
http://www.grantlink.org/
GrantLink is a comprehensive source of information on grant support for social science and public policy researches. GrantLink covers all social science and public policy disciplines, including but not necessarily limited to, anthropology, business, economics, demography, geography, health sciences, history, international affairs, law, management and decision sciences, political science, psychology, public administration, public finance, sociology, and statistics.

J. Paul Getty Trust
http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/index.html
The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to advanced scholarship in the arts and humanities. It offers public programs and a residential program for international scholars and provides non residential grants to support scholars throughout the world

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
http://www.gf.org/
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, except the performing arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, colour, or creed. Fellowships are not available for students. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Lindbergh Foundation
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org
Yearly, the Lindbergh Foundation provides grants to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Application guidelines and procedures are posted on the foundation's website.

National Endowment for Democracy
http://www.ned.org/
The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, nonprofit organization created to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. It makes hundreds of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

RGK Foundation
http://www.rgkfoundation.org
The foundation commits funding worldwide to support medical research, educational research and community development. In these areas, the foundation supports programs and conferences that promote academic excellence in universities and colleges that raise literacy levels and that support the health and well being of children.

Russel Sage Foundation
http://www.russellsage.org/
The Russel Sage Foundation is the principal American Foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Located in New York City, it is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The foundation also publishes, under its own inprint, the books that derive from the work of its grantees and Visiting Scholars.

Social Science Research Council
http://www.ssrc.org
Founded in 1923, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent non-profit organization with ongoing research projects on every continent, most of which are designed to encourage innovation and to help social scientists engage broader constituencies. Fellowship and dissertation funding opportunities available.

Spencer Foundation
http://www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm
The Foundation's research programs provide funding for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. Research projects vary widely, ranging from medium-sized studies that can be completed within a year by an individual researcher to more extensive collaborative studies that last several years.

William T. Grant Foundation
http://wtgrantfoundation.org
The William T. Grant Foundation works to improve the lives of young people by investing in high quality research on how contexts such as family and programs affect youth, how these contexts can be improved, and how scientific evidence affects influential adults. Major grants are available for research encompassing: evaluations (of systems, policies, etc ), policy analysis, communication , capacity building
Submission Deadline: Anytime

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships
The Center offers residential Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities for the entire U.S. academic year (September through May), or for a minimum of four months during the academic year, to individuals in the social sciences and humanities who submit outstanding project proposals on a broad range of national and/or international issues. Fellows are selected through a multi-level peer review process. Proposed topics should intersect with questions of public policy or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance.

Funding sources

Countries. Alphabetical order

Canada

International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
IDRC is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. IDRC funds research activities that are designed to provide direct benefits to developing countries and their citizens.

Germany
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) aims at strengthening regional and interdisciplinary networking between the scientists and scholars sponsored by the foundation, at supporting worldwide contacts and at introducing young scientists to the work of the Humboldt Foundation and to research in Germany. The program each year enables 500 young highly qualified scholars resident outside Germany who hold doctorates to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany (age limit: 40 years).
Submission Deadline: Anytime

German Academic Exchange Service
http://www.daad.de/en/index.html
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst supports and promotes all areas relating to science, research, language, teaching and very much more. The 200 and more programmes range from short-term exchanges for research or teaching purposes through to doctoral scholarships lasting several years for graduates from developing countries, from information visits by delegations of foreign university vicechancellors through to the long-term regional programmes conceived to establish efficient higher education systems in the Third World.

Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation
http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/fellowship/en/start.html
The purpose of Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation is to promote science and research focussed on the interrelationship between humanity, environment and technology, and particularly to support interdisciplinary approaches to these issues.

Heinrich Böll Foundation
http://www.boell.de/asp/frameset_en.html
The Heinrich Böll Foundation, is a legally autonomous and intellectually open political foundation. Its foremost task is political education in Germany and abroad with the aim of promoting informed democratic opinion, socio-political commitment and mutual understanding.

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
http://www.rosalux.de/engl/home.htm
The Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation is particularly active in adult and youth political educational in the Federal Republic of Germany and has developed into a nationwide institution in this field. The Foundation has, the possiblity to offer financial assistance to advanced students, post-graduates and scholars from other countries.

Volkswagen Foundation
http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/english.html
The Volkswagen Foundation provides financial support for academic research in all fields in Germany as well as other countries. The main thrust is to stimulate new interdisciplinary developments, to help create highly qualified research capacities, and to establish novel path-breaking fields of research.
Submission Deadline: Anytime

Greece

Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Foreigners' Fellowship Programme
http://www.onassis.gr
Annual programme of research grants and educational scholarships which is addressed to non Greeks, full members of National Academies, University Professors of all levels (PhD holders), postdoctoral researchers, post-graduate students and PhD candidates.

Israel

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
http://www.academy.ac.il/
A major role of the Israel Academy is to promote and coordinate scholarly contacts between Israel and the international community, partly on the basis of international agreements for scientific cooperation, and partly by representing Israel in international scientific organizations. The Academy is the signatory to over thirty international agreements providing for reciprocal visits by Israeli and foreign scholars and joint scientific workshops.
Submission Deadline: Anytime
Israel Science Foundation
http://www.isf.org.il
The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) is Israel's major research funding organization. Set up by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the ISF supports academic research in all fields.
Japan

Asahi Glass Foundation
http://www.af-info.or.jp/eng/subsidy/grant.html
The Asahi Glass Foundation supports research in leading-edge scientific and technological fields and recognizes individual and organizational efforts to solve issues of concern to people around the world. Human and social sciences research assistance is awarded for projects that endeavour to find solutions to serious problems that have arisen as a result of rapid social change.

Canon Foundation in Europe
http://www.canonfoundation.org/pages/main.htm
The Canon Foundation in Europe is a philanthropic, grant-making institution, active in the promotion of international cultural and scientific relations between Europe and Japan. Annually, it grants up to 15 fellowships to young, highly qualified, Master's or Doctor's degree European and Japanese researchers, not older than 40 years. The fellowships are awarded regardless of disciplines and existing employment positions.

Toshiba International Foundation
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/tifo/english/doc05/index.htm
The Foundation strives to contribute to the development of international understanding by promoting exchange activities, including the organization and sponsorship of symposia and seminars that further worldwide understanding of Japan. The Foundation also participates in programs designed to support development of international communities.

Toyota Foundation
http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/e_guide/eken.htm
The Toyota Foundation is a grant-making organization dedicated to the goals of realizing greater human fulfilment and contributing to the development of a human-oriented society. In general grants are awarded to individuals or to individuals on behalf of a group, and not to organizations. Activities supported may include individual or group research projects, conferences or public seminars, publications, or other modalities.

Nehterlands

International Institute for Asian Studies
http://www.iias.nl/iias/fellowships.html
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral research centre. Its main objective is to encourage the study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in this field. The institute focuses on the humanities and the social sciences and, where relevant, on their interaction with other sciences.

The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP)
http://www.nuffic.nl/nfp/
The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) are demand-oriented fellowship programmes designed to foster institutional development. The overall aim of the NFP is to help alleviate qualitative and quantitative shortages of skilled manpower and to do so within the framework of sustainable capacity-building directed towards reducing poverty in developing countries.
Available to nationals of 57 selected countries.
The NFP offers fellowships for master's degree programmes, for PhD studies, for short courses, tailor-made training, refresher courses.

Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
http://www.fct.mces.pt/
Financial support for post-doctoral fellowships in Portugal is available to all citizens of the European Union.
Spain

Fundación Caja Madrid
http://www.fundacioncajamadrid.org/Fundacion/fun_inicio
La Fundación Caja Madrid mantiene un amplio Programa de Becas, para licenciados y titulados superiores en España, destinadas a la ampliación de estudios de postgrado en el extranjero en economía, sociología, ciencias políticas, derecho político y constitucional.

Fundación Carolina
http://www.fundacioncarolina.es/
La Fundación Carolina, con sede en la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, ofrece un programa de becas dirigidas a jóvenes titulados superiores, profesionales e investigadores de los países que integran la Comunidad Iberoamericana de Naciones.

Jaume Bofill Foundation
http://www.fbofill.org/
The Jaume Bofill Foundation is concerned with promoting initiatives conducive to achieving a better understanding of society in Catalonia (Spain). Supports research projects in social sciences falling within its general program.

Fundación La Caixa
http://www.estudis.lacaixa.comunicacions.com/webes/estudis.nsf/wurl/bqbshomecos_esp
It offers post-graduate scholarships for young Spanish graduate students in universities and research centres in Europe and USA.

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
http://www.becasmae.es/
El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación de España y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, ofrecen becas para extranjeros para estudios de postgrado en universidades y centros superiores públicos y privados en España.

Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
http://wwwn.mec.es/univ/
1- Programa de becas postdoctorales en España y extranjero, para la realización de trabajos de investigación.
2- Becas predoctorales y postdoctorales en universidades y centros de investigación de Estados Unidos.

Switzerland

Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences
http://www.fors.unil.ch
The Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences FORS was created in accordance to the law on research of the Federal Government. Its purpose is to provide services, to conduct research and to publish and disseminate research findings in the social sciences. The Foundation's activities specifically comprise the following:
- preparing, documenting and providing data of all kinds, such as are needed to conduct studies in the social sciences;
- advising researchers and other interested parties on the collection and use of data;
- developing methods and procedures for collecting and analysing data;
- promoting the application of the findings obtained.

World Society Foundation
http://www.uzh.ch/wsf/
The World Society Foundation is designed to encourage and support research on world society-its structure, historical development, and current transformation. Research proposals eligible for grants should focus on the various processes of social integration within world-wide systems (world culture, world economy, world politics and intergovernmental systems). These processes and their consequences may be studied from different levels of analysis, focusing on units such as individuals, sub-national regions, nations, transnational social networks etc.

United Kingdom

Aga Khan Foundation
http://www.akdn.org/
The mission of the Aga Khan Foundation is to develop and promote creative solutions to problems that impede social development, primarily in Asia and East Africa. It provides a limited number of scholarships each year for postgraduate studies.

Economic and Social Research Council
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/index.asp
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. It aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and quality of life. The Small Grants Scheme is part of the ESRC e-Social Science Initiative. The scheme aims to encourage applications that are particularly novel or experimental, or based around the theme of social shaping or the socio?economic impact of e-science. See the ESRC website for details, guidance notes and an application form.

Leverhulme Trust
http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/grants_awards/
The Leverhulme Trust makes awards for the support of research and education. The Trust emphasises individuals and encompasses all subject areas; its financial support is organised into grants and awards which vary in size, purpose and application procedure.

Newton International Fellowship
http://www.newtonfellowships.org/
Are you at the beginning of your research career - with the potential to be world-class?
Is your research in the natural or social sciences, engineering or humanities?
Do you want to build and maintain links with leading researchers in the UK?
Then apply now for a Newton International Fellowship

USA

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/
The Center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law and others.

Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc.
http://www2.coca-cola.com/citizenship/foundation_coke.html
Primary support for education including higher education, science and engineering. Funds organizations outside the US that promote higher education. Guidelines and application form are posted on the foundation's web site.

Earhart Foundation
The Fellowship Research Grants Program is open to individuals who have established themselves professionally and who are affiliated with educational or research institutions. Areas of interest include economics, the environment, social and economic policy. Individuals or organizations interested in this foundation should submit a letter requesting the application guidelines.
The Earhart Foundation, David Kennedy, President, 2200 Green Road, Suite H, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA

Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org/
Asset Building and Community Management Program: Grant making aims to help low-income people and communities build the financial, human, social and natural resource assets they need to overcome poverty and injustice. Categories are Economic Development and Work-Force Development: Support given to organizations that help improve the ways low-income people develop marketable job skills and acquire and retain reliable employment that provides livable wages
Community & Resource Development Program: Environment and Development sub-program gives grants helping people and groups acquire, protect and improve land, water, forests, wildlife and other natural assets in ways that help reduce poverty and injustice.
Applications are considered throughout the year.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation places a priority on the study of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world and also encourages related research projects in neuroscience, genetics, animal behaviour, the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities which illuminate modern human problems. In addition to the program of support for postdoctoral research, ten or more dissertation fellowships are awarded each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
http://www.horowitz-foundation.org/
Research grants in the social sciences

Grantlink
http://www.grantlink.org/
GrantLink is a comprehensive source of information on grant support for social science and public policy researches. GrantLink covers all social science and public policy disciplines, including but not necessarily limited to, anthropology, business, economics, demography, geography, health sciences, history, international affairs, law, management and decision sciences, political science, psychology, public administration, public finance, sociology, and statistics.

J. Paul Getty Trust
http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/index.html
The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to advanced scholarship in the arts and humanities. It offers public programs and a residential program for international scholars and provides non residential grants to support scholars throughout the world

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
http://www.gf.org/
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, except the performing arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, colour, or creed. Fellowships are not available for students. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Lindbergh Foundation
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org
Yearly, the Lindbergh Foundation provides grants to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Application guidelines and procedures are posted on the foundation's website.

National Endowment for Democracy
http://www.ned.org/
The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, nonprofit organization created to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. It makes hundreds of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

RGK Foundation
http://www.rgkfoundation.org
The foundation commits funding worldwide to support medical research, educational research and community development. In these areas, the foundation supports programs and conferences that promote academic excellence in universities and colleges that raise literacy levels and that support the health and well being of children.

Russel Sage Foundation
http://www.russellsage.org/
The Russel Sage Foundation is the principal American Foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Located in New York City, it is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The foundation also publishes, under its own inprint, the books that derive from the work of its grantees and Visiting Scholars.

Social Science Research Council
http://www.ssrc.org
Founded in 1923, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent non-profit organization with ongoing research projects on every continent, most of which are designed to encourage innovation and to help social scientists engage broader constituencies. Fellowship and dissertation funding opportunities available.

Spencer Foundation
http://www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm
The Foundation's research programs provide funding for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. Research projects vary widely, ranging from medium-sized studies that can be completed within a year by an individual researcher to more extensive collaborative studies that last several years.

William T. Grant Foundation
http://wtgrantfoundation.org
The William T. Grant Foundation works to improve the lives of young people by investing in high quality research on how contexts such as family and programs affect youth, how these contexts can be improved, and how scientific evidence affects influential adults. Major grants are available for research encompassing: evaluations (of systems, policies, etc ), policy analysis, communication , capacity building
Submission Deadline: Anytime

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships
The Center offers residential Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities for the entire U.S. academic year (September through May), or for a minimum of four months during the academic year, to individuals in the social sciences and humanities who submit outstanding project proposals on a broad range of national and/or international issues. Fellows are selected through a multi-level peer review process. Proposed topics should intersect with questions of public policy or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance.

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