Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship 2026-2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship 2026-2027. The Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship is geared toward mid-profession professionals with demonstrable management potential within the subject of cyber safety or cyber coverage within the Western Balkans. The fellowship is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The fellowship is delivered at Cranfield University on the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Shrivenham Campus).

This ten-week fellowship supplies fellows with an understanding of coverage and legislative approaches in cyber safety and its implications for nationwide safety, business OPPORTUNITY, crime prevention, and the best to privateness.

The fellowship will deal with:

• Cyber threats, together with: the menace panorama, menace and threat evaluation, the implications for nationwide safety, and the relevance of web governance buildings; and the safety of vital nationwide infrastructure.
• The economics of on-line enterprise, cyber safety, shopper consciousness and shopper safety, know-how adoption challenges, the relevance of open supply, and efficient know-how adoption by customers.
• Cyber-crime and web legislation, together with the financial influence of cyber-crime, home and worldwide approaches to countering cyber-crime, web legislation, legislation enforcement considerations, privateness considerations, the use and abuse of social media, and accountability in our on-line world.
• Relevant points and challenges specific to the UK and the Western Balkans.

Benefits

Each fellowship contains:

• Full programme charges
• Living bills all through the fellowship
• Return financial system airfare from the Western Balkans to the UK

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Chevening Cyber Security Fellowship, you could:

• Be a citizen and at the moment dwell in one of many following: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, or Serbia.
• Return to your nation of citizenship on the finish of the interval of the fellowship.
• Have a postgraduate degree qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) on the time of application.
• Have not less than 5 years’ related work expertise previous to making use of.
• Have important work expertise in cyber safety or cyber coverage points, both as a coverage formulator, commentator, or tutorial.
• Have an excellent working information of English to be assessed in your application type and if you’re invited to interview.
• Agree to stick to all related tips and expectations of the fellowship.
• Not maintain British or twin British citizenship.
• Not be an worker, a former worker, or relative of an worker of His Majesty’s Government, or have been inside the final two years from the opening of Chevening purposes (together with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK college.
• Not have obtained UK Government scholarship funding (together with Chevening) inside the final 5 years. You will solely be eligible to apply for a Chevening Fellowship after a interval of 5 years following the completion of your first UK Government-funded scholarship.

Application

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For extra data, go to Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship.