Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellowship 2025 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellowship 2025. The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) is the one international program that arranges, funds, and helps fellowships for threatened and displaced students at partnering larger schooling establishments worldwide.

These yr-lengthy fellowships assist momentary tutorial positions at establishments of larger studying wherever on the planet the place IIE-SRF fellows can proceed their work in security. In most instances, IIE-SRF fellows are eligible to apply for a second and closing yr of fellowship assist. They have awarded IIE-SRF fellowships to 1,134 students from 62 international locations, inserting them at 510 host accomplice establishments in 59 international locations around the globe.

Benefits

The IIE-SRF fellowship bundle consists of the next:

• A yearlong analysis and/or educating appointment at a better schooling establishment in a secure location wherever on the planet;
• A fellowship grant of up to $25,000 (most awards are eligible for renewal for a second and closing yr);
• Individual medical insurance protection;
• Funding for relocation to the host establishment;
• Professional growth assist by way of useful resource guides and entry to tutorial networks; CV and canopy letter evaluate; letters of reference; profession mentorship and advising on publish-fellowship alternatives; and (in some instances) monetary assist for convention attendance and language coaching;
• Opportunities by way of IIE-SRF or accomplice occasions, media, or different venues to share or promote the guy’s tutorial work and/or discuss their home nation;
• Dedicated assist from IIE-SRF and its companions – earlier than, throughout, and after the fellowship.

Eligibility

• Open to professors, researchers, and public intellectuals who face threats and can’t proceed their work of their home international locations. 
• Scholars from any nation and in any tutorial subject or self-discipline might qualify.
• Applicants are assessed based mostly on tutorial {qualifications} and expertise, the standard and/or potential of their work, and the urgency of the threats that they face.

Preference is given to students who:

• maintain a Ph.D. or highest diploma of their subject and have vital educating and/or analysis expertise at a college, school, or different establishment of larger studying;
• have a longtime document of revealed analysis;
• exhibit superior tutorial accomplishment or promise;
• are dealing with or have not too long ago fled from quick, focused threats to their lives and/or careers of their home international locations or international locations of residence;
• will profit their home and/or host tutorial communities.

Application

The required application supplies embody:

• Application Form
• Current CV or resume. Be certain your CV consists of the next info:
  • Academic levels (diploma-granting establishment, subject, and date of diploma award);
  • Current place (location, dates of employment, skilled title, and duties);
  • Previous tutorial positions (in chronological order, together with location, dates of employment, skilled title, and duties);
  • An in depth listing of your tutorial publications (journal articles, books, chapters, exhibitions, and so on.) together with full citations with the identify of publication, authors, title of work, date of publication, and web page numbers, if doable;
  • Other related tutorial work (together with supervision of grasp’s and Ph.D. theses, convention shows, grants/honors/awards, skilled affiliations, and so on.).
• Academic assertion. Provide a radical assertion detailing your tutorial {and professional} background and expertise, together with a radical description of your tutorial analysis pursuits. Please ensure to embody an outline of the actions that you’ve got undertaken in your tutorial positions in addition to a proof of the actions (analysis, educating, publishing, and so on.) you’d undertake throughout a fellowship. Your tutorial assertion ought to be a minimal of one web page.
• Personal assertion. Provide a radical assertion explaining why you might be making use of to IIE-SRF for assist. Include a transparent and detailed account of the threats or dangers that you’ve got been dealing with and the explanations that you simply can’t proceed your work in your home nation presently. Your private assertion ought to be a minimal of one web page.
• Reference letters. IIE-SRF requires a minimal of three (3) reference letters that include the weather listed under. In some instances, further letters could also be requested. Letters from colleagues each inside and out of doors of your home nation are most popular. Note that IIE-SRF requires authentic reference letters. Letters shouldn’t use an identical or AI-generated textual content, and every referee ought to communicate to their particular data of your tutorial background and/or circumstances. When doable, have your referees compose their letters on official letterhead and ship them to IIE-SRF instantly at [email protected].
  • Two (2) tutorial/skilled letters of reference from tutorial or skilled colleagues who can communicate intimately to your analysis, publications, educating, or different tutorial expertise. When applicable, letters ought to describe your distinctive experience and contributions to particular mental points or questions.
  • Two (2) private letters of reference from colleagues or different individuals who’re conscious of your circumstances and may describe the threats that you’ve got been dealing with.
• A replica of your Ph.D. or highest diploma.
• Samples of your most present analysis publications.
• If you may have already secured a dedication from a college or different establishment to host your fellowship, please present a letter from the host indicating their intent to host, if you’re awarded. Please word that that is not a requirement.

Submit all application supplies by way of electronic mail to [email protected]. If you shouldn’t have entry to electronic mail, you might ship your supplies by way of fax or publish to:

Scholar Rescue Fund
Institute of International Education
One World Trade Center, thirty sixth Floor
New York, New York 10007
USA

Fax: +1-212-205-6425

For extra info, go to IIE-SRF Fellowship.