JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: January 31, 2026

Applications are open for the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2026. UNU provides Postdoctoral Fellowships to offer younger students and policymakers, particularly from the growing world, with a multidisciplinary context inside which to pursue superior analysis and coaching which are {of professional} curiosity to the profitable applicant and of direct relevance to the analysis agenda of their chosen thematic programme.

Since the beginning of the Fellowship Programme at UNU-IAS in 1996, greater than 250 younger researchers — 70% of whom are from the growing world — have benefited from collaboration with UNU and Japanese students.

Programme Details

Jointly organized by the UNU and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is designed to offer promising, extremely certified younger researchers with the OPPORTUNITY to conduct superior analysis in sustainability below host researchers at home universities and analysis establishments throughout Japan in cooperation with UNU-IAS.

This fellowship is aimed toward candidates who’ve accomplished their doctorates previously six years (with the interval of maternity/paternity go away subtracted) and have skilled and/or analysis expertise. UNU-IAS Tokyo acts because the nominating authority for the JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Nominated fellows will likely be thought-about members of their host establishments and are required to hold out their analysis below the supervision of their host researcher. It is feasible for fellows to conduct analysis at UNU-IAS if mutually agreed upon by the host college.

Research Areas

Under this programme, fellows are anticipated to conduct analysis in one of many thematic areas listed under below the supervision of the host researcher. The proposed analysis should be coverage-related and incorporate gender points inside the analysis agenda.

• Governance for Climate Change and Sustainable Development (GCSD)
• Biodiversity & Society (BDS)
• Water & Resource Management (WRM)
• Innovation & Education (IVE)

Benefits

• Airfare: a spherical-journey air ticket (primarily based on JSPS rules)
• Maintenance allowance: JPY 362,000 per 30 days
• Miscellaneous: a settling-in allowance of JPY 200,000 and abroad journey insurance coverage

The award quantities are topic to alter by JSPS.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a doctoral diploma on the time of application (obtained on or after 2 April 2020 with the interval of maternity/paternity go away subtracted, counting 4 weeks as a month) or be scheduled to obtain a doctoral diploma by the tip of July 2026 after passing the dissertation protection.
• Applicants should be residents of nations which have diplomatic relations with Japan.
• Japanese nationals (together with twin citizenship holders) and everlasting residents of Japan aren’t eligible to apply.
• Those who’ve beforehand been awarded a Standard or Pathway Fellowship below the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan are additionally not eligible.

Application

Interested and eligible candidates are invited to fill out the application kind by 31 January 2026 (23:59 JST). The kind should be crammed out in English.

Note that the host researcher should be confirmed earlier than making use of for the fellowship. Applicants are liable for discovering and negotiating an settlement with a number researcher at a Japanese establishment because the UNU-IAS Fellowship Committee can’t help the method. Furthermore, UNU-IAS researchers aren’t eligible to develop into host researchers.

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For extra data, go to JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship.