ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme 2025/2026 for junior to mid-level government officials and researchers (Fully Funded to Hamburg, Germany)

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Application Deadline: March 6, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025/2026 ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme. The nineteenth version of the programme is scheduled to begin on 7 July 2025 and finish on 31 March 2026.

In cooperation with the Nippon Foundation, the Tribunal runs an annual capacity-building and coaching programme on dispute settlement underneath the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (‘UNCLOS’).

The full-time programme, which runs for 9 months and begins in July every year, takes place on the seat of the Tribunal in Hamburg, Germany. Contingent upon the provision of funds, a name for functions is mostly introduced every year throughout the month of January or February. 

The programme is geared toward junior to mid-level government officials and researchers primarily from creating international locations who’re presently engaged on points associated to the regulation of the ocean, maritime regulation or dispute settlement. It gives individuals with a singular alternative to develop their authorized abilities and deepen their sensible information of dispute settlement within the regulation of the ocean underneath UNCLOS.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be between the ages of 25 and 40.
• Applicants will need to have a primary college diploma in regulation and show a capability to undertake impartial scientific analysis, study and coaching.
• Applicants have to be:

1. junior to mid-level government officials from an administration or government company, coping with ocean affairs or maritime issues in addition to authorized points relating thereto; or
2. researchers from an institute (educational or government) coping with ocean-related or maritime issues in addition to authorized points relating thereto.

• Applicants should point out the analysis subject which they intend to pursue throughout the programme. The analysis subject ought to handle authorized problems with relevance to the State involved relating to the implementation of UNCLOS, specifically Part XV thereof.
• The administration or institute nominating the applicant should point out on the nomination type the duties carried out by the applicant and clarify the extent to which the coaching programme will profit the establishment/State involved.
• Applicants will need to have a superb information of one of many official languages of the Tribunal (English and French) and a working information of the opposite language. The lectures and actions of the Programme are primarily held in English.

Benefits

• All individuals’ prices, together with journey, lodging, medical insurance coverage and a month-to-month allowance, are lined by the Nippon Foundation.
  

Application Procedure:

Procedure

The following paperwork have to be submitted so as for an application to be processed:  

• Fellowship Application Form to be duly accomplished, signed and submitted by the applicant.
• Nomination Form to be duly accomplished, signed and straight submitted by the nominating company. The submitted type have to be typed.

In the case of government officials, the nominating company needs to be a related governmental physique. For researchers, the nominating company could be the institute or educational division of the college to which they’re affiliated.

Nominating businesses are invited to submit two copies of the Nomination Form:

1. One scanned model of the signed unique; and
2. One digital model.

The Nomination Form could also be ideally despatched by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to: (+49 40 35607-245) or by publish to:

Office of the Registrar
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Am Internationalen Seegerichtshof 1
22609 Hamburg
Germany

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme