Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 24, 2025

Applications are open for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program 2026. Where else may an economist, a painter, an astrophysicist, and a poet work collectively to deal with essentially the most urgent problems with our time? The Bellagio Center helps leaders to advance novel options and develop partnerships that will at first appear unlikely — unlocking breakthroughs important to humanity’s nicely-being.

The Rockefeller Foundation believes good concepts can come from anybody, anyplace. For greater than 60 years, the Bellagio Center Residency Program has supported innovators, trailblazers, changemakers, and champions to advance particular breakthrough tasks. Bellagio seeks to encourage collaboration throughout sectors and professions, political affiliations, and nationwide borders. In sharing their data, approaches, and views, residents strengthen their work and collectively remodel the problems that outline our current and form our future.

Based in Lake Como, Italy, the 4-week residency gives individuals the OPPORTUNITY to unleash their creativity and advance groundbreaking work. Residents can make the most of targeted, uninterrupted work time on this distinctive setting 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.

Benefits

• Up to 4 (4) weeks at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy.
• Room and board with a non-public studio for working.
• A shared group 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 goal of making a greater world.

Eligibility

Open to:

• University- and assume-tank-primarily based lecturers, researchers, professors, and scientists working in any self-discipline. These tasks ceaselessly advance a scholarly self-discipline or area of study and infrequently result in a broadcast e-book or article.
• Artists and writers — together with however not restricted to composers, fiction and non-fiction writers, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers, dancers, musicians, and visible artists — who share within the Foundation’s mission of selling the nicely-being of humanity and produce work that conjures up change and motion. Art tasks might be within the analysis, manufacturing, and/or publish-manufacturing stage.
• Senior-level policymakers, nonprofit leaders, journalists, personal-sector leaders, and public advocates in quite a lot of fields and sectors. These tasks can take many alternative varieties, together with books, articles, organizational plans, and coverage briefs.

Application

The first step within the application course of is a Pre-Application Questionnaire to confirm eligibility. Eligible candidates can then full an internet 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.

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For extra data, go to Bellagio Center Residency Program.