UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship 2025 (Funding available) – YOA

Deadline: February 3, 2025

Applications are open for the UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship 2025. To redress gender inequalities and promote inclusive and efficient policymaking, UNIDIR is convening the 2025 version of the Women in AI Fellowship. This is designed as a capability-constructing intervention that endows girls diplomats with up-to-the-minute data of the coverage, authorized and technical points of AI, together with its gendered implications. Women in AI Fellows purchase the knowhow, expertise, sources and networks required to have interaction successfully in multilateral AI dialogue in the sector of worldwide peace and safety.

Structure

The Women in AI Fellowship includes every week-lengthy, in-person coaching in Geneva. The Fellowship is structured round three key pillars for a holistic and efficient programme of studying:

• Education – UNIDIR offers the Fellows with a substantive introduction to AI know-how, together with its strengths and limitations; an summary of the doable and noticed use circumstances of AI in safety functions; associated worldwide safety issues surrounding AI; background to and present multilateral discussions round AI coverage and governance; and insights into the hyperlink between gender and army AI. Learning actions are led by UNIDIR researchers in collaboration with related consultants and stakeholder organizations.
• Exploration – Apart from lectures, UNIDIR facilitates the Fellows’ interactions with stakeholders participating in sensible functions of AI in technical and tutorial settings. This will permit Fellows to obtain focused briefings and to realize a greater sense of the ecosystems concerned in AI design, growth, deployment and governance.
• Networking – UNIDIR additionally streamlines Fellows’ engagements with related stakeholders to allow the forging of sturdy connections with the diplomatic group, the personal sector and civil society. This features a) the group of a reception with the diplomatic group in Geneva, and b) a sequence of digital conferences with a gaggle of multi-sectoral consultants working on the intersections of gender, safety and know-how. The Fellows additionally profit from and develop into part of the UNIDIR Expert Network on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain.

Funding

• UNIDIR will choose as much as 30 Fellows, of which 10 shall be absolutely sponsored by UNIDIR and the remainder will take part at their very own or their sponsoring organizations’ expense. Priority for sponsorship shall be given to Fellows from growing international locations.

Eligibility

Open to girls diplomats who:

• Are junior to mid-profession stage;
• Are representatives of UN Member States;
• Have a powerful command of each written and spoken English;
• Have an curiosity in safety, know-how and/or gender.

Application

Interested candidates or their diplomatic representations are invited to submit the next supporting paperwork by e mail to [email protected] with the topic line “2025 UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship Application”:

• Copy of passport;
• Curriculum vitae of not more than two pages;
• Two advice letters, one among which must be from the applicant’s nationwide authorities or diplomatic illustration to the UN;
• A one-web page letter of curiosity detailing the applicant’s expertise and curiosity in the areas coated by the Fellowship, in addition to an overview of how they envisage utilizing data gained in the course of the programme.

For extra data, go to UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship.