Affiliated Members are either affiliated with or employed at one of the Cluster's partner research organisations, or have established a strong research collaboration with cluster members at the level of Key Researchers or higher. They contribute to the research tasks of the Cluster and take an active part in its activities. They participate in the General Assembly and other meetings without voting rights, but are not able to submit applications for Cluster funding. Affiliate Membership is open to doctoral students, collaborating researchers in the structures defined by the Cluster, visiting researchers from target and other countries, as well as alumni of the Cluster. Their research should intersect in meaningful and fruitful ways with that of the Cluster.

How to apply?

• browse through the list of Key Researchers, Research Nodes and Transversal Working Groups and seek communication with one or more Cluster members regarding your possible participation as an Affiliated Member
• write a 1-2 page application letter that summarizes your research project, explains how it connects to the topics of the Cluster, indicates which Research Node(s) and Transversal Working Group(s) you see yourself most closely aligned with, and names the Key Researchers whose projects are of interest to you
• send your CV + publications and the 1-2 page application letter to office.eurasia(at)oeaw.ac.at  .

Please submit your applications for Membership no later than 1 October 2026. The next COE EurAsia Research Committee will decide about new memberships until end of October 2026.

You have an idea for a contribution to the EurAsia-Blog on derStandard.at?

This is how you get your piece online:

• Suggest your topic to Oliver Schmitt (oliver.schmitt(at)univie.ac.at) or Robert Rollinger (robert.rollinger(at)uibk.ac.at).

• Draft a contribution at the length of 6000 characters including spaces, in German or English.

• Forward your draft to science writer Heike Kossdorff, who is editing the EurAsia Blog.

• Provide a picture that illustrates your piece with photo credits and copy right.

• Provide a short CV.

• Provide links to open access texts on your topic, if available.

Please use the new FWF Grant-Doi (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8) on all printed or online textual representation!

Standard expression: [...] in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence.

Journal articles, edited volumes and monographs of a scholarly nature, as well as contributions to newspapers and magazines and similar outlets that reach a general public, no matter whether they are published in print or in digital format (paywall or open access).

1. Publications that have benefited from Cluster funding must include an acknowledgement.
   Examples are all publications by scholars employed by the cluster when (some of) the research was conducted, edited volumes resulting from Cluster-(co-)funded conferences, or articles or (parts of) monographs which have received research funds from the Cluster.
   
   Example: 
   “This project was funded by / has received funding from / has received partial funding from the FWF Cluster of ‘Excellence COE 8, EurAsian Transformations’ (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8).”
   
   It should also feature the EurAsia logo and the FWF logo where possible, for example on the impressum page of a book.

2. Publications by cluster members, affiliated members of guests, or which have benefited from the intellectual context of the Cluster in a more general sense should also acknowledge this. This includes all publications that relate to the Case Studies outlined in the original application, and o subsequent work for which the Cluster has provided inspiration.
   
   Example: 
   “This publication has benefitted from the research environment of the Cluster of Excellence COE 8 ‚EurAsian Transformations‘ (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8).”

3. Regarding contributions to newspapers and magazines, it will be necessary to follow their guidelines. Sometimes it may be possible to add a line acknowledging the Cluster (as above), sometimes you may wish to mention the Cluster in your text (or in an interview), sometimes none of the above is feasible.

4. In the author biography, whenever possible, mention your membership in the Cluster together with your institutional affiliation.
   
   Example:
    “NN is Senior Group Leader xxx in the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘EurAsian Transformations’ (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8)”

(see https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/about-us/what-we-do/open-science/open-access-policy).

 
The FWF requires that Peer-Reviewed Publications resulting from its funded projects be published in open-access.

There are three options to fulfil this requirement:

1. Publication in OA journals or on OA platforms (usually free)

2. Gold open access: Printed publications or OA publications by commercial publishers charge OA fees.

3. Green open access: Self-archiving of submitted manuscript version on a registered institutional repertory or platform, which is free. Publishers differ much in accepting that before, at or a certain period after publication (Which the FWF does not accept any more. Please check with your publisher before signing a publication agreement!)

Please note that the COE is unable to fund open access costs.

FWF policy has changed recently: “The Open-Access Block Grant replaced the Peer-Reviewed Publication program on January 1, 2024. Authors now need to contact their research institutions directly before submitting an article to a journal or publication platform to learn more about potential OA funding options and any conditions they may be subject to.” All participating institutions in the COE are covered by the FWF Open Access Block Grant. You should approach your institution to benefit from this funding.

(https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/funding/portfolio/communication/open-access-block-grant).

Please take these requirements serious; publications will not be eligible as results of the COE if they are not accessible in open access (some exceptions are permitted, but must be justified in each individual case).

The COE EurAsia-Logo is available in the cloud file COE EurAsian Transformations Project Resources). The logos of FWF are available here.

1. In public presentations: place the FWF logo and the EurAisa logo on at least one side.

2. In book publications: place the FWF logo and the EurAsia logo on the impressum page, along with the following text (please adapt as appropriate):

“The research for this publication was funded by / has received funding from / has received partial funding from the FWF Cluster of Excellence COE 8, EurAsian Transformations’ (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8).”

1. Cluster publications are featured under a separate heading on our website.
   Please send the details of your publication (including any links) as soon as it appears to Rita Garstenauer and Jeanette Kilicci.

2. In addition, enter your publication as soon as possible in ORCID, as its data automatically appears in Researchfish, the impact monitoring platform used by the FWF. If you do not yet have an ORCID account, please create one (https://orcid.org).