The Open Society Fellowship 2025 for thinkers and practitioners worldwide.

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Application Deadline: 16 December, 2024.⁠

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Open Society Fellowship. Since 2008, the Open Society Fellowship has supported heterodox thinkers and practitioners from around the globe. This yr’s fellows might be chosen solely from seven cities—chosen as a result of they’re home to a dynamic circle of public intellectuals and cultural producers engaged in high-level vital debate. The fellowship will assist elevate new voices to participate in international conversations on probably the most urgent problems with our time – from human rights and social justice to local weather change and inequality—and present established public intellectuals new audiences for their work. Four fellowships might be granted in every of the seven cities, for a complete of 28 fellowships. Selection is very aggressive.

The Seven Cities:

• Beirut, Lebanon
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania
• Jakarta, Indonesia
• Lagos, Nigeria
• Taipei, Taiwan

Requirements

• Fellows could also be teachers, journalists, documentarians, think-tank specialists, playwrights, poets, architects, city planners, novelists, visible artists, cultural empresarios, or practitioners in different fields.
• They are unique and contrarian intellects, engaged on elementary open-society considerations—similar to justice, equality, rights, local weather—however past the bounds of present pondering.
• Their initiatives will assist us see the world in additional advanced methods. Successful candidates might be deeply rooted within the native political, financial, and cultural milieu, but in addition conversant with problems with the area and the planet.

Support

• Fellows will obtain a residing stipend for one yr of $100,000, in addition to as much as $20,000 for venture bills, for full-time work on their fellowship. In addition, they are going to be supported to attend fellowship-related occasions.
• The time period of the fellowship is one yr, however fellows are allowed to request an extension, with out additional compensation, for as much as a further yr.

Application Process:

The fellowship software requires a canopy letter; a CV; a three-page venture description; and a draft venture price range.

Application Timeline:

• Fellowship purposes have to be obtained no later than 5PM New York time on Monday, 16 December, 2024.
• Applicants might be notified about whether or not they have obtained the fellowship by Friday, 28 February, 2025.

All requests for extra info have to be directed to: [email protected]

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Open Society Fellowship