The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program 2026

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Application Deadline: June 5, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program. Based in Lake Como, Italy, the four-week residency provides contributors the chance to unleash their creativity and advance groundbreaking work. Residents can benefit from targeted, uninterrupted work time on this distinctive surroundings whereas collaborating in an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural cohort. They kind lasting bonds and keep related to The Rockefeller Foundation lengthy after their residency ends as members of the Bellagio Network.

The Bellagio Center Residency Program is for thinkers, doers, and dreamers working in any self-discipline or space of study. Projects might be primarily based on any matter however should reveal clear social affect and charitable objective. We search for functions that produce novel options and approaches, in addition to new information and artwork that conjures up change.

Resident Requirements

Residents Are:

• Leaders with vital achievement and recognition of their subject
• Forward-looking, with a observe document of advancing breakthrough concepts or actions which have had large affect
• Aligned with The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission to advertise the well-being of humanity
• Curious and collaborative — open to giving and receiving suggestions from a various group of fellow residents
• Excited to stay lively within the Bellagio Network after their residency

Benefits

• Up to 4 (4) weeks at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy
• Room and board with a personal studio for working
• A shared neighborhood of as much as 14 students, artists, and practitioners from world wide
• Travel funding
• Future participation in a world community of Bellagio Center alumni, united within the shared objective of making a greater world

Selection Process:

Bellagio Center residents are chosen by way of an annual open name for functions, in addition to an inner referral course of. In each instances, people should submit an application and undergo a aggressive assessment course of.

The first step within the application course of is a Pre-Application Questionnaire to confirm eligibility. Eligible candidates can then full a web-based Expression of Interest to share extra about their skilled background and proposed mission. The Rockefeller Foundation will invite a shortlist of candidates to submit a full application. An exterior assessment panel will inform the number of finalists to proceed to the interview stage. Final selections might be made by the top of December 2025.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program