Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) Fellowship Program 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: January 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) Fellowship Program 2026-2027. The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School invites functions for its Fellowship Program, a world analysis program for students inspecting how cooperatives, unions, and solidarity-financial system organizations are partaking with digital programs, together with synthetic intelligence and knowledge-intensive infrastructures.

ICDE helps empirically grounded, comparative, and theoretically sturdy analysis on how digital infrastructures, together with platforms, AI programs, knowledge regimes, and algorithmic administration, are evolving throughout various institutional and social contexts. The fellowship encourages open-ended, interdisciplinary inquiry that brings collectively views from the social sciences, regulation, media research, science and expertise research, organizational analysis, and associated fields. ICDE welcomes work that develops and assessments new ideas, frameworks, and comparative approaches to questions of governance, institutional design, and inequality in digital economies, whereas remaining attentive to actual-world practices and constraints.

The fellowship emphasizes case-primarily based and empirically engaged analysis, inviting fellows to discover concrete institutional settings by comparative evaluation, conceptual experimentation, and inquiry into various organizational preparations that will inform coverage discussions and organizational follow.

Benefits

Fellows obtain:

• Mentorship and suggestions from ICDE school, senior researchers, and fellows
• Access to ICDE’s international community of students, cooperators, unions, and policymakers
• Opportunities to collaborate on analysis sprints, occasions, and publications
• Travel and lodging help to attend the PCC Conference (convention-associated prices solely)

Fellows are accountable for securing their very own visas.

Eligibility

• ICDE welcomes functions from:
  • Ph.D. candidates and publish-docs
  • Junior and early-profession school
• Applicants with equal analysis expertise and a demonstrated file of scholarly or utilized analysis might also be thought-about. They additionally welcome collaborative or paired functions during which two candidates suggest aligned or joint analysis agendas.

Applicants ought to exhibit:

• Engagement with, or clear plans to have interaction, particular cooperatives, unions, federations, or collective initiatives as part of their analysis course of
• A transparent analysis query grounded in actual-world circumstances
• Capacity to contribute to a collaborative cohort and shared outputs
• Familiarity with cooperative, labor, or solidarity-financial system contexts

Application

Applicants should submit:

• A CV (most 4 pages)
• A 1–2 web page analysis proposal, together with:
  • Research query and motivation
  • Empirical focus or case study
  • Methods and timeline
  • Relevance to ICDE’s analysis focus areas
• One writing pattern demonstrating prior analysis
• Contact data for two tutorial or skilled references

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to ICDE Fellowship.