Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellowship 2025-2026 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 27, 2025

Applications are open for the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellowship 2025-2026. The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) is the one international program that arranges, funds, and helps fellowships for threatened and displaced students at partnering greater schooling establishments worldwide.

These 12 months-lengthy fellowships help non permanent tutorial positions at establishments of greater studying anyplace on the planet the place IIE-SRF fellows can proceed their work in security. In most instances, IIE-SRF fellows are eligible to apply for a second and remaining 12 months of fellowship help. We have awarded IIE-SRF fellowships to 1,166 students from 62 nations, inserting them at 522 host associate establishments in 59 nations world wide.

Benefits

The IIE-SRF fellowship package deal contains the next:

• A yearlong analysis and/or instructing appointment at a better schooling establishment in a protected location anyplace on the planet;
• A fellowship grant of up to $25,000 (most awards are eligible for renewal for a second and remaining 12 months);
• Individual medical insurance protection;
• Funding for relocation to the host establishment;
• Professional improvement help by useful resource guides and entry to tutorial networks; CV and canopy letter evaluate; letters of reference; profession mentorship and advising on submit-fellowship alternatives; and (in some instances) monetary help for convention attendance and language coaching;
• Opportunities by IIE-SRF or associate occasions, media, or different venues to share or promote the guy’s tutorial work and/or discuss their home nation;
• Dedicated help from IIE-SRF and its companions – earlier than, throughout, and after the fellowship.

Eligibility

• Open to professors, researchers, and public intellectuals who face threats and can’t proceed their work of their home nations. 
• Scholars from any nation and in any tutorial area or self-discipline could qualify.
• Applicants are assessed primarily based on tutorial {qualifications} and expertise, the standard and/or potential of their work, and the urgency of the threats that they face.

Preference is given to students who:

• maintain a Ph.D. or highest diploma of their area and have important instructing and/or analysis expertise at a college, school, or different establishment of greater studying;
• have a longtime document of printed analysis;
• show superior tutorial accomplishment or promise;
• are dealing with or have lately fled from quick, focused threats to their lives and/or careers of their home nations or nations of residence;
• will profit their home and/or host tutorial communities.

Application

The required application supplies embrace:

• Application Form
• Current CV or resume. Be positive your CV contains the next data:
  • Academic levels (diploma-granting establishment, area, and date of diploma award);
  • Current place (location, dates of employment, skilled title, and tasks);
  • Previous tutorial positions (in chronological order, together with location, dates of employment, skilled title, and tasks);
  • An in depth checklist of your tutorial publications (journal articles, books, chapters, exhibitions, and many others.) together with full citations with the title of publication, authors, title of work, date of publication, and web page numbers, if potential;
  • Other related tutorial work (together with supervision of grasp’s and Ph.D. theses, convention displays, grants/honors/awards, skilled affiliations, and many others.).
• Academic assertion. Provide an intensive assertion detailing your tutorial {and professional} background and expertise, together with an intensive description of your tutorial analysis pursuits. Please make sure to embrace an outline of the actions that you’ve got undertaken in your tutorial positions in addition to an evidence of the actions (analysis, instructing, publishing, and many others.) you’d undertake throughout a fellowship. Your tutorial assertion must be a minimal of one web page.
• Personal assertion. Provide an intensive assertion explaining why you’re making use of to IIE-SRF for help. Include a transparent and detailed account of the threats or dangers that you’ve got been dealing with and the explanations that you just can’t proceed your work in your home nation presently. Your private assertion must be a minimal of one web page.
• Reference letters. IIE-SRF requires a minimal of three (3) reference letters that comprise the weather listed beneath. In some instances, further letters could also be requested. Letters from colleagues each inside and outdoors of your home nation are most popular. Note that IIE-SRF requires authentic reference letters. Letters shouldn’t use equivalent or AI-generated textual content, and every referee ought to communicate to their particular data of your tutorial background and/or circumstances. When potential, have your referees compose their letters on official letterhead and ship them to IIE-SRF immediately at [email protected].
  • Two (2) tutorial/skilled letters of reference from tutorial or skilled colleagues who can communicate intimately to your analysis, publications, instructing, or different tutorial expertise. When applicable, letters ought to describe your distinctive experience and contributions to particular mental points or questions.
  • Two (2) private letters of reference from colleagues or different individuals who’re conscious of your circumstances and might describe the threats that you’ve got been dealing with.
• A replica of your Ph.D. or highest diploma.
• Samples of your most present analysis publications.
• If you might have already secured a dedication from a college or different establishment to host your fellowship, please present a letter from the host indicating their intent to host, in case you are awarded. Please be aware that that is not a requirement.

Submit all application supplies through electronic mail to [email protected]. If you should not have entry to electronic mail, it’s possible you’ll ship your supplies through fax or submit to:

Scholar Rescue Fund
Institute of International Education
One World Trade Center, thirty sixth Floor
New York, New York 10007
USA

Fax: +1-212-205-6425

For extra data, see FAQ and go to IIE-SRF Fellowship.