Bertha Challenge Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 28, 2025

Applications are open for the Bertha Challenge Fellowship 2026. This yr, they’re opening application to filmmakers and legal professionals alongside investigative journalists and activists to apply with a physique of labor talking clearly to the query for 2026: How is the collusion between governments and firms driving the assault on the rule of regulation, civil rights and a free press? How will we push again to guard democratic accountability?

The Bertha Challenge goals to assist groundbreaking initiatives by offering time to work solely on a targeted undertaking, areas through which to attach with a various world cohort of Bertha Fellows and companions and the assets to develop and ship a physique of labor that talk on to the Challenge query.

Benefits

The Fellowships supply:

• Income for every Bertha Challenge Fellow for one yr, not exceeding USD $64,900 and commensurate with the applicant’s present or equal wage on the host group.
• A Project Fund of as much as USD $10,000 for every Bertha Challenge Fellow to supply a culminating physique of labor that responds to the Bertha Challenge query and is directed in direction of a particular viewers.
• Access to a Connect Fund of as much as USD $5,000 particularly designed to encourage collaboration between Fellows.
• Peer and mentor assist within the type of common digital check-ins with Bertha employees and a group of Bertha Challenge Fellows and alumni.
• Network growth by the worldwide cohort of Bertha Challenge Fellows.
• A world convening of Bertha Challenge Fellows initially of the Fellowship yr.

Eligibility

• Applicants might come from and work in any nation, however to make sure that this cohort of Bertha Challenge Fellows is ready to be absolutely participatory, they require all candidates to be proficient in spoken and written English and capable of ship their remaining work in English.

Fellowship Requirements

Bertha Fellows will spend their time working of their home nations and are required to:

• Work full-time for one yr to ship their Bertha Challenge undertaking.
• Attend an in-particular person world convening that may happen in direction of the start of the Fellowship.
• Develop and ship a culminating physique of labor that responds to the Bertha Challenge query.
• Participate in two digital conferences per thirty days, and sometimes facilitate these conferences.

Application

All candidates should submit:

• A accomplished on-line application form
• A short resume/ CV in English of not more than two pages.
• A listing of two-4 referees together with title, relationship to applicant and make contact with particulars.
• A signed MoU from the possible host group – together with commensurate wage and well being and pension advantages supplied.
• Examples of earlier work.

For extra data, go to Bertha Challenge.