DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship Program 2026 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: September 5, 2025

Applications are open for the DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship Program 2026. The DAAD/American-German Institute Research Fellowship Program, funded by a beneficiant grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), is designed to convey students and specialists engaged on key problems with central significance to the German-American relationship to AGI for analysis stays of as much as six consecutive months every. Junior students and specialists are particularly inspired to apply.

During their tenure, DAAD/AGI Research Fellows can be anticipated to current their analysis outcomes at a workshop to the broader Washington, DC, coverage group and produce a brief analytical essay that can be printed on the AGI web site and distributed by way of the Institute’s focused evaluation e-newsletter, The AGI Advisor. In addition, fellows can be anticipated to have interaction in organized scholarly interplay on their analysis, for instance by seminars or lectures at universities and analysis establishments; AGI will present assist to prepare this if required.

Benefits

• AGI gives a number of fellowships, which embody a month-to-month stipend between roughly €2,800 and €3,200 (relying on the seniority of the applicant); transportation to and from Washington, DC; monetary assist for analysis-associated journey to establishments inside the DAAD middle community (Centers for German and European Studies) in North America; and workplace house on the Institute.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be German; or should be non-German and dealing completely in Germany or presently at one of many DAAD Centers for German and European Studies (within the case of US residents: provided that at DAAD Centers outdoors of the United States).
• Applicants will need to have accomplished or presently be engaged on a PhD.
• All application supplies MUST be submitted in English and acquired by AGI by the deadline with a purpose to be thought-about for fellowships within the specified interval.
• Individuals who’ve acquired a grant or different assist from the DAAD inside three years of the beginning date of the fellowship will not be eligible to apply. This doesn’t apply to candidates affiliated with DAAD Centers for German and European Studies.

Application

There isn’t any formal application kind. To apply for the DAAD/AGI fellowship program, submit the next supplies (in English) electronically, mixed in a single PDF file to Susanne Dieper, Director of Programs and Grants, at [email protected]:

• A short cowl letter, together with your citizenship/eligibility and the way you will have heard in regards to the fellowship;
• A curriculum vitae, with a listing of publications (if related);
• A venture proposal (5-7 pages, double-spaced) outlining in clear, concise phrases the substantive thrust of the analysis and its relevance to the AGI mission; the explanations for carrying it out at AGI and in Washington, DC; the timeframe of the fellowship at AGI, together with dates and size (two to 6 months); a short define of organizations and people within the Washington, DC, area the applicant considers necessary for his or her analysis venture. Since the fellowship supplies funds to journey to DAAD facilities in North America, an overview in regards to the the explanation why the applicant desires to journey to a specific DAAD middle needs to be included as properly.
• Two current letters of reference (required for PhD college students and up to date PhDs, i.e., inside 5 years of getting accomplished their PhD; non-compulsory for senior researchers).
• Successful candidates should be proficient within the English language.

Applications can be reviewed by a range committee, and AGI will conduct interviews (in individual or by way of video convention) with choose candidates.

For extra data, go to DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship.