Academy of International Affairs NRW Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: June 29, 2025

Applications are open for the Academy of International Affairs NRW Fellowship 2026-2027. The Academy of International Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia (AIA NRW) affords fellowships for excellent students and practitioners in Bonn, the German UN-City, to conduct initiatives that target vital questions within the discipline of worldwide politics. AIA NRW gives knowledgeable platform and distinctive surroundings that fosters dynamic and vibrant change in a world, interdisciplinary setting.

Applicants can apply to 1 of the next two tracks:

• Academic Track: For initiatives which have an specific educational focus, linking as much as ongoing or rising educational debates, and supply a transparent goal on how they contribute to a greater understanding of worldwide politics.
• Practitioner’s Track: For initiatives that mirror on worldwide politics from the attitude of sensible expertise in a related skilled discipline and supply a transparent goal on how they contribute to a greater understanding of worldwide politics.

Benefits

• AIA NRW’s fellowship programme is dedicated to bringing collectively teachers and practitioners for a vigorous and significant change and affords wonderful educational and administrative assist. Fellowships can take the shape of paid/unpaid leaves, compensation prices paid to the home establishment, or a stipend on the idea of the applicant’s present revenue.
• AIA NRW gives lodging for the fellows and their households and covers journey bills to and from Bonn.
• Fellows are allotted with workplace area and the required infrastructures to conduct their initiatives in addition to some additional funding for analysis bills.

Eligibility

• Open to each senior and youthful students (submit-doc stage and upwards) from all educational disciplines and practitioners from politics, diplomacy, media, enterprise and civil society.
• Applications that deal with the main focus subject or different important questions within the discipline of International Politics are welcome. Both particular person and tandem initiatives might be thought of.

Application

Applicants must submit form for applicants and the next paperwork compiled in a single PDF:

• A letter of motivation;
• A proposal of their envisaged educational mission at AIA NRW (max. 5 pages together with an summary; together with guiding (analysis) questions, a quick abstract of the state of analysis within the respective discipline, a selected work plan/timetable and focused outputs in addition to the anticipated added worth of the keep in Bonn within the specific surroundings of AIA NRW);
• A brief CV (max. 2 pages).

Additionally for the tutorial observe:

• An entire checklist of publications, and
• Electronic copies of 2-3 current journal publications.

For extra info, go to AIA NRW Fellowship.