FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme for Researchers from Africa 2026/2027 – YOA

Deadline: September 12, 2025

Applications are open for the FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme for Researchers 2026/2027. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) invites researchers primarily based in an African nation with a accomplished doctoral diploma and a minimal of eight years of publish-doctoral expertise to apply for the FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme 2026/2027.

The fellowships can be found to researchers from any nationality primarily based in an African establishment. The programme provides entry to the sources, networks, and tutorial group of the University of Freiburg, enhancing your analysis via new views and collaborative alternatives. Fellowships can final for six months between September 1, 2026 and August 31, 2027.

Benefits

• Depending on their scenario, chosen candidates will both obtain a fellowship contract with the University of Freiburg or different compensation.
• Fellows obtain a analysis price contribution, a mobility allowance and journey prices of the inbound and the outbound journey. 
• Fellowships will permit researchers to conduct their very own analysis tasks. Since one of many goals of FRIAS is to foster cross-disciplinary communication, full-time presence at FRIAS is necessary.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a accomplished doctoral diploma plus a minimal of eight years of publish-doctoral expertise. 
• Applicants should have 5 peer-reviewed publications since 1 January 2016, together with not less than one with or as a co-creator.
• Applicants should be primarily based in an African nation.  
• Applicants should have not less than six months’ analysis or study expertise at tutorial establishment(s) in a rustic completely different from the nation of their first tutorial diploma by the point of application AND have acquired a Master/PhD in an African nation.
• Fellowships might be awarded to people with difficult and revolutionary analysis tasks of high tutorial high quality via a extremely aggressive, strictly benefit-primarily based choice course of (anticipated success charge: ~10% of eligible functions).
• Only functions from disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences with a thematic concentrate on sustainable governance might be thought of. A letter of cooperation by an educational companion on the University of Freiburg is required. 

Application

Information on the candidate and venture (summary, layman’s summary to speak the analysis venture to a common public, motivation assertion, moral difficulty desk) should be crammed into the net application kind. 

Additionally, the next attachments are required to be uploaded to the application portal:

• Project proposal (max. 3000 phrases together with footnotes, headers, footers, and bibliographical references, 4 graphs) (PDF)
• CV in tabular kind (PDF, mandatory template available in the application portal)
• Publication checklist (PDF): Applicants should present a listing of publications that will not exceed 8 publications in whole. Five of these publications should be revealed after 1 January 2016 and should be peer-reviewed, together with not less than one with or as a co-creator
• Copy of the PhD diploma (PDF)
• Letter of Cooperation by an educational companion on the University of Freiburg who will assist the venture throughout the keep in Freiburg. The tutorial companion should maintain the title of a professor

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship.