Deadline:
January 02, 2025
Program Starts: May 23, 2025
Program Ends: July 04, 2025
Location(s)
Germany Poland
Overview
FASPE is a set of innovative programs for students in professional schools designed to address contemporary ethical issues through a unique historical context. Fellowships provide business, journalism, law, medical, and seminary students with a 12-day trip to Germany and Poland where the actions of professionals during the Holocaust and in Nazi Germany serve as a backdrop for an intensive course of study on the current ethical challenges in their fields.
Details
2025 Program Dates:
- Law, Business, and Design and Technology: May 23, 2025 - June 6, 2025
- Medical, Seminary, and Journalism: June 20, 2025- July 4, 2025
We will begin accepting applications for the 2025 Fellowships on August 30, 2024.
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) provides a unique historical lens to study contemporary ethics in the professions.
Prior to World War II, German professionals were highly regarded internationally. In many respects, they set the standard for a commitment to quality of practice and for independence from state and political influence. Yet, leaders and practitioners in each of the professions, and often the institutions they represented, became intimately involved in designing, enabling and/or executing the crimes of Nazi Germany. FASPE studies the perpetrators to display the power and role of professionals, to ask the basic questions of how and why professionals abandon their ethical guideposts and to create a compelling context for the study of contemporary ethical issues.
FASPE offers fellowships to students pursuing professional degrees in business, journalism, law, medicine and religion, as well as to early-career professionals in these fields. Fellows in each of FASPE’s five programs spend two intensive weeks in Germany and Poland, visiting Auschwitz and key historical sites in Berlin and Krakow, and participating in rigorous seminars led by experts in their respective fields. Fellows begin their studies by examining the roles their professional counterparts played in Germany and elsewhere from 1933-1945, and then draw on historical, cultural, philosophical, literary and discipline-specific sources to explore the ethical issues facing their fields today.
FASPE also provides shorter programs to mid-career professionals that integrate history and contemporary ethical issues. These include tailored onsite ethics training at corporations, law firms and other professional settings, as well as a condensed version of the program in Europe in which the FASPE fellows participate.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
FASPE is for students in business, medical, law, seminary, and journalism graduate programs. Business executives who completed their MBA/MSC in the past two year, working journalists who completed their undergraduate degree in the past five years or a graduate degree in the past two years, working attorneys who completed their JD in the past year, and working clergy who completed their graduate studies in the past two years are also eligible.
Dates
Deadline: January 02, 2025
Program starts:
May 23, 2025
Program ends:
July 04, 2025
Program Starts: May 23, 2025
Program Ends: July 04, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
FASPE is committed to covering all program costs and related travel so that financial ability does not affect participation. Costs covered include:
- Roundtrip economy-class airfare from the US to Europe.
- All transportation costs for group travel and activities in Germany and Poland.
- All admission fees.
- All program materials.
- All hotel costs.
- All group meal costs.
- Pocket money to cover non-group meals.
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
