Application at the Pastorales Forum

If you would like to apply for a three-year scholarship, starting in  Winter Semester, please send us the following documents by

the end of January of a given year (in German or in English):

1. Essay on the topic of your project (about 3 pages of theses, objectives, procedure, raw outline), either dissertation or Habilitation (post-doc).
2. CV with signature; postal address, telephone number, email address
3. Copy of Matura (high-school-leaving) certificate + translation, copy of university diploma + translation
4. Request of your bishop or religious order for granting a scholarship. From this letter it should be clear for which future activity this further education will qualify you.
5. Letter of recommendation from the university professor about your academic suitability
6. Declaration of commitment : In the case of a scholarship grant, you undertake to work for at least three years in your country of origin, ideally in the theological-academic or ecclesiastical sphere. If you fail to comply with this obligation and do not return to your country of origin, you are required to repay one third of the scholarship paid to you within the following five years to the Pastorales Forum (exceptions only by special agreement). The regulation also applies if you have not completed the planned course for which you have received a scholarship within five years. We ask you to formulate and sign this document yourself.

Please send these documents as pdf to office@pastorales-forum.net

It is recommended that you start with your admission to the doctoral programme at the University of Vienna, we can only grant a fixed scholarship after a successful admission to the doctorate programme. Applicants will be then invited to an interview where they can present the project personally.

For further information, please contact Mrs. Dr. Adela Muchova at office@pastorales-forum.net. She will be happy to consult all necessary details with you.

Proposals for a dissertation or a habilitation
(These topics are preferred for a scholarship)

Fundamental Pastoraltheology

• Pastoral history in a country or in a cultural region
• History of the pastoral theology of a linguistic region
• Pastoral theology today in a country or in a cultural region
• New theoretical approaches in pastoral theology in a country or in a cultural region
• Church documents of the Pastoral
• Pastoral in the media era
  
  

Pastoral Theology of Parishes/Communities

• Community development in a region
• Pastoral role distributions in communities
• Parishioners and spiritual movements
• Models and experiences in categorical pastoral care
• Church and society in a pastoral region
• Priestly role-models and priestly life stories
  
• Cooperation between the Church and civil society in social welfare
  
  

Religious education

• Educational challenges in school religious education
• Focus of the education and training of teachers of religion
• Religious education in the family, schools, parishes, movements
  
  

other topics

• Pastoral and relationship culture
• Counselling in theology and the practice of pastoral care
• Analysis and interpretation of religious sociological research results
• Pastoral initiatives in internationalyl compared