Wolfgang Ritter Foundation Awards Scholarships to Six International PhD Students › view all

                                                                                                                                                                               _{(source: Constructor University)}

Six Constructor University PhD students from six different countries have been awarded scholarships from Bremen’s Wolfgang Ritter Foundation to support their doctoral research.  Among them are BIGSSS Regular Fellows Mastewal Bitew and Alice Cimenti, who have received the funding to allow them to focus entirely on the final stages of their PhD projects.

Alice Cimenti is researching social issues pertaining to diversity and inclusion. Her project focuses on changing attitudes towards diversity among adolescents in Italy. Mastewal Bitew has dedicated his research to furthering understanding and awareness of the distinct identity and experience of Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia.

The Wolfgang Ritter Foundation is one of Bremen’s largest science-oriented foundations, providing numerous awards, scholarships and funding opportunities for young scientists and graduate-level research. Best known for awarding the annual Wolfgang Ritter Prize – one of the most highly endowed awards for scientific achievements in business administration and economics – the foundation has partnered with Constructor University since 2017 to promote emerging international research talent, funding more than 60 PhD students through the scholarship program in that time. 

We congratulate Alice Cimenti and Mastewal Bitew on this achievement.