JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Applications are open for the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2025. UNU affords Postdoctoral Fellowships to supply younger students and policymakers, particularly from the growing world, with a multidisciplinary context inside which to pursue superior analysis and coaching which can be {of professional} curiosity to the profitable applicant and of direct relevance to the analysis agenda of their chosen thematic programme. Since the beginning of the Fellowship Programme at UNU-IAS in 1996, greater than 250 younger researchers – 70% of whom are from the growing world – have benefited from collaboration with UNU and Japanese students.

Jointly organized by the UNU and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is designed to supply promising, extremely certified younger researchers with the OPPORTUNITY to conduct superior analysis in sustainability underneath host researchers at home universities and analysis establishments throughout Japan in cooperation with UNU-IAS.

This fellowship is aimed toward candidates who’ve accomplished their doctorates previously six years (with the interval of maternity/paternity go away subtracted) and have skilled and/or analysis expertise. UNU-IAS Tokyo acts because the nominating authority for the JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Nominated fellows will probably be thought of members of their host establishments and are required to hold out their analysis underneath the supervision of their host researcher. It is feasible for fellows to conduct analysis at UNU-IAS if mutually agreed upon by the host college.

Costs

The fellowship supplies:

• Airfare: a spherical-journey air ticket (primarily based on JSPS laws)
• Maintenance allowance: JPY 362,000 per thirty days
• Miscellaneous: a settling-in allowance of JPY 200,000 and abroad journey insurance coverage

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a doctoral diploma on the time of application (obtained on or after 2 April 2019 with the interval of maternity/paternity go away subtracted, counting 4 weeks as a month) or be scheduled to obtain a doctoral diploma by the tip of July 2025 after passing the dissertation protection.
• Applicants should be residents of nations which have diplomatic relations with Japan.
• Japanese nationals (together with twin citizenship holders) and everlasting residents of Japan aren’t eligible to apply. Those who’ve beforehand been awarded a Standard or Pathway Fellowship underneath the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan are additionally not eligible.

Application

Interested and eligible candidates are invited to fill out the application type by January 31, 2025 (23:59 JST). The type should be crammed out in English.

Note that the host researcher should be confirmed earlier than making use of for the fellowship. Applicants are chargeable for discovering and negotiating an settlement with a number researcher at a Japanese establishment because the UNU-IAS Fellowship Committee can not assist the method. Furthermore, UNU-IAS researchers are not eligible to change into host researchers. 

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For extra info, go to JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship.