Deadline: 19th November 2023 | Call For Applications: 2024 – Fellowship In Rest And Resilience (Funded)
| Title: | Call For Applications: 2024 – Fellowship In Rest And Resilience (Funded) |
| Organisation: | Rest and Resilience |
| Fund/Grant: | €1000 |
| Deadline: | 19th November 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | All |
Since 2015, the taz Panter Foundation and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have collaborated to offer the annual Rest & Resilience Fellowship.
RSF is a global human rights organisation that works to protect press and information freedom across the globe. The taz Panter Foundation promotes independent initiatives’ social participation in Germany and around the world, as well as critical journalism, in close collaboration with the tageszeitung (taz).
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The Fellowship Initiative
- For a maximum of six months, we are inviting two journalists from nations with restricted press and information freedom to Berlin. The media professionals take time off from their regular responsibilities throughout their stay in order to recuperate from their demanding work environments and broaden their horizons both personally and professionally. After the six months are up, the fellows head back to their home nations with a revitalised sense of purpose and a new outlook on journalism.
- Participants are free to entirely disengage from public life if they so want. However, participation in the many seminars offered by the fellowships is highly recommended as they provide as a means of networking and additional training. Apart from that, staying in Berlin provides the chance to meet German editorial offices, exchange with foreign journalists, learn German language classes, and, if needed, receive individual psychosocial counselling.
Benefits
- Visa and airfare expenses
- Berlin furnished flat
- Health insurance for travel throughout the six-month stay in Berlin
- A grant of €1,000 per month
- Psychological assistance
- Workshops (such as those on stress management and digital safety training)
- Opportunities for personal training or for working as a professional journalist
Eligibility
- The candidate is certain of how the six-month fellowship in Berlin will improve their existing circumstances.
- Note: The fellowship is intended to be utilised for professional and/or personal growth; the recipient journalist can return home with renewed perspective and vigour.
- Many years of experience working as a journalist for a living.
- Please take note: RSF does not have the authority to invite anybody who are not professional journalists, even though we much value the work that human rights advocates perform.
- Individual threat profile as a result of journalistic job or challenging working circumstances brought on by outside variables.
- Demonstrated proficiency in the English language. The candidates need to have good communication skills in a formal setting.
- A passport that can be independently renewed or reapplied for, and that is valid for at least a year at the time of application.
- A level of health that allows for extended travel and a six-month stay in the host nation, together with enough autonomy to do daily tasks independently in an unfamiliar environment.
- Capacity and readiness to return to one’s home nation following the fellowship.
Application
- The application, duly filled out and signed.
- A scan of your passport, which is good for an additional year or can be renewed on its own.
- Your tabular curriculum vitae (CV).
- A one to two page motivation letter outlining your reasons for applying to the Rest & Resilience Fellowship.
- Please list the precise elements that complicate or jeopardise your particular working environment. Kindly indicate how you intend to utilise your time in Berlin and how it will benefit your future employment in your native country.
For more information, visit Rest and Resilience Fellowship.
