University of Bonn SDG Fellowships 2025-2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the University of Bonn SDG Fellowships 2025-2026. Through this fellowship program, tenured school (within the rank of professor) on the University of Bonn can invite worldwide postdoctoral fellows for a joint analysis mission on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as set forth by the United Nations in its Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The scientists ought to analysis and educate along with a professor from the University of Bonn for one or two semesters.

The University of Bonn at present has a big quantity of collaborations with universities and analysis institutes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As proven by the SDG index, implementing the Sustainable Development Goals poses appreciable challenges for a lot of nations in these areas. Based on the seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal, “Partnerships for the Goals,” researchers within the above-talked about areas are given choice for the Bonn SDG Fellowships. The objective is to help proficient researchers and construct and strengthen networks by means of them. The funding is for a interval of a minimum of 3 and no more than 12 months.

Funding

The funding can cowl the next:

• A journey allowance (relying on nation of origin)
• A scholarship of €3,000 per thirty days (further funds for members of the family: as much as €300 for a partner and €250 per child)
• A analysis expense allowance of as much as €500 per thirty days.

Insurance advantages will not be included within the scholarship.

Eligibility

• Open to Post-doctoral researchers (with international citizenship) invited by a professor of the University of Bonn for a joint analysis mission.
• The fellow ought to have a protracted-time period affiliation (analysis or educate) at a college or analysis institute within the above-talked about areas past her/his fellowship and show confirmed experience in an space of analysis from the thematic spectrum of the SDGs.

Selection Criteria

Project proposals are evaluated in two classes:

• Academic Quality and Mutual Benefit (50%): high quality of the analysis mission to be labored on through the keep in Bonn; work on a subject that contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as set forth by the United Nations in its Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development; relevance of the analysis subject to developments within the area of origin; fellow’s contribution to tutorial life in Bonn (e.g. through public lectures, seminars or colloquiums); fellow’s integration into the host institute (place of work, integration into current educating and analysis actions)
• Strategic Relevance and Potential for Future Cooperation (50%): Intensity of the present cooperation; plans for lengthy-time period analysis relationships between the man and the host institute in Bonn; connection to Bonn’s analysis profile ; how the analysis shall be shared with broader tutorial communities 

In case two proposal rating the identical, the class “Academic Quality and Mutual Benefit” shall be given precedence.

Application

Application should embrace:

• Online type
• Project description (PDF of max. 8 pages), consisting of:
  • Abstract of the proposed mission (as much as 250 phrases)
  • Outline of the analysis mission to be labored on through the fellow’s keep in Bonn; write your proposal for a multidisciplinary viewers
  • Reasons for the man’s invitation and an outline of his or her contribution to analysis and educating on the University of Bonn, a top level view of the actions by means of which the man will enrich college life on the University of Bonn throughout his or her keep there
  • An overview of the collaboration between the applicant and the man to this point
  • An define of the combination of the man into the host institute (place of work, participation in educating and analysis actions)
  • An define of comply with-on worth: (a) plan for the result of the keep, (b) plan for rising the collaboration sooner or later.
• Fellow’s CV (PDF)
• A financing plan (use the next Excel file)

The application should be submitted by a full-time professor on the University of Bonn along with the man.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to University of Bonn SDG Fellowships.