Charlemagne Prize Fellowship 2025-2026 (up to €25,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 17, 2025

Applications are open for the Charlemagne Prize Fellowship 2025-2026. As a contribution to European integration and for the trade of the younger era in Europe, the Charlemagne Prize Academy goals to determine future challenges and issues of European society and, by awarding analysis fellowships yearly, to develop approaches to options at an early stage, that are mentioned in dialogue with representatives from science, politics, enterprise, and the general public to decide their feasibility and practicability.

The Charlemagne Prize Fellowship is an endowed one-yr non-resident programme of the European Charlemagne Prize Academy, addressing European junior researchers, subsequent-era coverage consultants, innovators, and thought leaders that work towards a greater European Union.

Benefits

• Expanding your community: Together with a bunch of different Fellows and inside a rising group of Academy alumni, the Fellowship throughout the Charlemagne Prize Network contains thrilling associate organisations and lots of spectacular personalities that you’ll meet throughout networking occasions, the Charlemagne Prize Summit, and the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony in spring. You will get the OPPORTUNITY to have interaction with specialists on an educational in addition to on knowledgeable degree, relying in your profession prospects.
• Financial assist of up to €25,000 on your artistic and particular person analysis venture. The grant will show you how to to implement your concepts and codecs independently.
• Administrative and scientific assist: You will likely be assigned a mentor, who’s an professional in your analysis area and who will assist you with the implementation of your concepts and analysis. By attending networking occasions and receiving assist in attaining your milestones, you’ll have the possibility to focus in your particular person analysis progress.
• Time on your ideas: The Fellowship programme permits you to implement a person venture earlier than coming into the skilled world or academia independently. This may very well be a step that was not doable throughout earlier research, and a possibility for coaching and additional engagement with scholarly work.
• Acclimatisation to the worldwide stage: Presenting your individual work and fascinating with worldwide determination-makers will practice your confidence and abilities to promote your concepts and to work on constructive approaches.
• Standing out from the group: The Charlemagne Prize Fellowship presents the chance to mark an distinctive path in your CV, appropriate to particular person plans and ambitions.

Eligibility

• Have a postgraduate diploma (ideally Master’s diploma or equal);
• Younger than 35 years of age;
• Professional English language abilities (minimal C1)
• Citizen of an EU member state or resident in Europe throughout venture implementation;
• Submission of an modern analysis proposal, appropriate with the annual focus;
• Current and potential relevance of the proposed analysis query;
• Proposal of a number establishment during the Fellowship.

Applicant’s Profile

• college graduates, younger professionals and workers of scientific, political, financial, or cultural establishments/organisations.
• people or teams that would really like to analysis a specified matter inside a interval of 12 months.
• dependable personalities with earlier analysis expertise.

Application

They extremely encourage graduates from all educational fields, younger professionals, and workers of scientific, political or public establishments and organisations to hand of their analysis concepts for the analysis yr. The application interval will run from 1 July to 17 August 2025.

You will want to add the next paperwork in English:

• Your CV (pdf) – obligatory
• Your Research Proposal (pdf) – obligatory
• Supporting paperwork, references, and certificates (as one pdf file) – non-compulsory

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For extra info, go to Charlemagne Prize Fellowship.