Contest for ideas - Projects of young scholars

Young scholars are a well of research ideas. The Cairo Department of the German Archaeological Institute made a contest out of it. Every M. A. and Ph.D. student affiliated with the Department was invited to submit an application for a short-term project. There were just a few guidelines to provide a setting for creativity. The project applications should either deal with confined research topics, or be a part of an existing project, or explore if further and in-depth research of a topic might be productive. Besides giving an opportunity to young scholars, the First Director Stephan J.  Seidlmayer wanted to survey ideas floating in his team.

Eventually, four projects were selected:

"Dokumentation von sekundären Spuren auf archäologischen Objekten: Möglichkeiten, Machbarkeit und Standardisierung" (Kyra Gospodar & Ann-Kathrin Jeske)

"Entwicklung virtueller und augmentierter Realität der Gräber von Dahschur" (Matthieu W. Götz)

"The iconographic, textual and scientific analysis of coffins from el-Hibe in the Egyptian Museum Cairo – towards the restoration and study of an important group of Late Period coffins" (Katharina Stövesand)

"Analyse der Farbigkeit von Felsinschriften" (Elisabeth Wegner)

Since this call was such a success, Stephan Seidlmayer made the decision to have regularly a contest of ideas.