Regional Network of Centers for Advanced Studies in Southeast Europe (RECAS) Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: October 3, 2025

Applications are open for the Regional Network of Centers for Advanced Studies in Southeast Europe (RECAS) Fellowship 2025. The Regional Fellowship encourages researchers to conduct and current their work throughout key college facilities in Southeast Europe, deepening regional trade and cooperation. Fellows will obtain host assist on the Universities of Rijeka and Belgrade, and will choose co-hosts amongst companion universities in Skopje, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Prishtina, Tirana, or Podgorica. This permits researchers to develop comparative views, construct networks, and contribute to regionally grounded, globally related scholarship.

Each fellow will spend as much as six months engaged on a analysis mission associated to this 12 months’s fellowship theme. During their keep, they are going to have interaction with native scholarly communities, conduct fieldwork, take a look at strategies, and hyperlink their findings to concrete societal challenges. The program is particularly suited to motion-oriented students aiming to co-create data, deal with democratic deficits, or suggest viable alternate options for the longer term of the area.

2025 Fellowship Theme: Youth Agency and New Political Imaginaries in the Western Balkans

This 12 months’s fellowship theme invites researchers to discover how younger folks throughout Southeast Europe think about and enact democratic futures amid persistent structural and geopolitical tensions. In a context marked by stalled EU integration, youth disenchantment, state seize, and twin deficits in ecological and digital capacities, younger folks in the area aren’t merely passive observers of democratic backsliding—they’re lively contributors in crafting new civic meanings and democratic aspirations. 

Rather than viewing youth as a “target group” or a future citizens ready to be built-in into predefined establishments, they acknowledge them as producers of political data and brokers of democratic and coverage innovation. Youth company is conceptualized not merely as protest or participation, however because the capability to generate new political imaginaries—collective, affective, and symbolic visions of how politics could possibly be in any other case. 

The mission foregrounds two interlinked thematic pillars: 

• New Political Imaginaries of Youth: How do younger folks throughout the area image Europe’s and regional social and political future? What metaphors, historic references and cultural narratives do they deploy to articulate their relationship with democratic establishments, identification, and regional affiliation? Fellows are invited to analysis how these imaginaries inform youth’s sense of belonging, resistance, and chance. 
• Eco-Digital Youth Futures: How do younger folks have interaction with the intertwined challenges of ecological disaster and digital transformation? What position do digital instruments play in their civic expression or environmental advocacy? What sorts of hybrid “eco-digital imaginaries” emerge from youth discourse and observe? 

Benefits

• Monthly stipend: €1,500 internet
• RECAS supplies workplace area, institutional assist, and native networks

NB: Fellows are accountable for regional journey and healthcare

Eligibility

• Applicant will need to have obtained a PhD or be a PhD candidate (superior stage);
• Fluent in English;
• Open to all disciplines in humanities, social sciences, arts;
• Priority for candidates engaged on Southeast Europe.

Expected Output

Each fellow is predicted to:

• Produce a analysis essay or transient
• Participate in the Policy Hackathon
• Share outcomes at Surgery Week
• Contribute to the Academic Policy Lab repository
• Submit a last exercise report

Application

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For extra info, go to RECAS Fellowship.