Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship 2025-2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 4, 2025

Applications are open for the Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship 2025-2026. The Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship is aimed toward mid-profession professionals with demonstrable management potential within the discipline of cyber safety or cyber coverage within the Western Balkans. The fellowship is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The fellowship is delivered at Cranfield University, on the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Shrivenham Campus).

Programme Structure

This ten-week fellowship supplies fellows with an understanding of coverage and legislative approaches in cyber safety and its implications for nationwide safety, industrial OPPORTUNITY, crime prevention, and the precise to privateness.

The fellowship will give attention to:

• Cyber threats, together with: the menace panorama, menace and danger evaluation, the implications for nationwide safety, and the relevance of web governance buildings; and the safety of important nationwide infrastructure;
• The economics of on-line enterprise, cyber safety, shopper consciousness and shopper safety, know-how adoption challenges, the relevance of open supply, and efficient know-how adoption by customers;
• Cyber-crime and web legislation, together with the financial impression of cyber-crime, home and worldwide approaches to countering cyber-crime, web legislation, legislation enforcement considerations, privateness considerations, the use and abuse of social media, and accountability in our on-line world;
• Relevant points and challenges specific to the UK and the Western Balkans

Benefits

Each fellowship contains:

• Full programme charges
• Living bills all through the fellowship
• Return financial system airfare from the Western Balkans to the UK

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Chevening Cyber Security Fellowship, you have to:

• Be a citizen and at present reside in one of many following: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro or Serbia;
• Return to your nation of citizenship on the finish of the interval of the fellowship;
• Have a postgraduate stage qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) on the time of application;
• Have no less than 5 years’ related work expertise previous to making use of;
• Have important work expertise in cyber safety or cyber coverage points, both as a coverage formulator, commentator, or tutorial;
• Have a superb working data of English to be assessed in your application kind and in case you are invited to interview;
• Agree to stick to all related pointers and expectations of the fellowship;
• Not maintain British or twin British citizenship;
• Not be an worker, a former worker, or relative of an worker of His Majesty’s Government, or have been throughout the final two years from the opening of Chevening purposes (together with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK college, or a workers member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
• Not have acquired UK Government scholarship funding (together with Chevening) throughout the final 5 years. You will solely be eligible to apply for a Chevening Fellowship after a interval of 5 years following the completion of your first UK Government-funded scholarship.

Application

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For extra data, go to Chevening Fellowship.