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On the former constraints on Eastern European science: A case illustration of the AvH-fellowship accessability to scholars of the former Czechoslovakia

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A survey is presented showing an above-average performance by candidates of several Central/Eastern European countries in the world-wide competition for the Alexander von Humboldt fellowships in the period before 1989, in spite of various administrative obstacles imposed by their countries. The success rate can be linked to the traditionally relatively high level of educational standards there. The administrative obstacles are illustrated by taking the former Czechoslovakia as an example, and also by way of a personal case study.

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  1. Department of Knowledge-Based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, 441, Toyohashi, Japan

    Zdeněk Slamina

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Dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the 1988 denunciation of author’s personal letters.

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Slamina, Z. On the former constraints on Eastern European science: A case illustration of the AvH-fellowship accessability to scholars of the former Czechoslovakia. NTM N.S. 6, 238–244 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02914225

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