ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 6, 2026

Applications are open for the ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme 2026-2027. In cooperation with the Nippon Foundation, the Tribunal runs an annual capability-constructing and coaching programme on dispute settlement below the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (‘UNCLOS’). The full-time programme, which runs for 9 months and begins in July annually, takes place on the seat of the Tribunal in Hamburg, Germany.

The programme is geared toward junior to mid-degree authorities officers and researchers primarily from creating nations who’re at the moment engaged on points associated to the regulation of the ocean, maritime regulation or dispute settlement. It supplies members with a singular OPPORTUNITY to develop their authorized abilities and deepen their sensible information of dispute settlement within the regulation of the ocean below UNCLOS.

Costs

• All members’ prices, together with journey, lodging, medical insurance coverage and a month-to-month allowance, are coated by the Nippon Foundation.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be between the ages of 25 and 40.
• Applicants should have a primary college diploma in regulation and exhibit a capability to undertake impartial scientific analysis, study and coaching.
• Applicants have to be:
  • Junior to mid-degree authorities officers from an administration or authorities company, coping with ocean affairs or maritime issues in addition to authorized points relating thereto; or
  • Researchers from an institute (educational or authorities) coping with ocean-associated or maritime issues in addition to authorized points relating thereto.
• Applicants should point out the analysis matter which they intend to pursue throughout the programme. The analysis matter ought to tackle authorized problems with relevance to the State and establishments of the members concerning the implementation of UNCLOS, specifically Part XV thereof.
• The administration or institute nominating the applicant should point out on the nomination kind the duties carried out by the applicant and clarify the extent to which the coaching programme will profit the establishment/State involved.
• Applicants should have a wonderful information of one of many official languages of the Tribunal (English and French) and a working information of the opposite language. The lectures and actions of the Programme are primarily held in English.

Application

The following paperwork have to be submitted to ensure that an application to be processed:

• Fellowship Application Form to be duly accomplished, signed and submitted by the applicant.
• Nomination Form to be duly accomplished, signed and instantly submitted by the nominating company. The submitted kind have to be typed.

In the case of presidency officers, the nominating company needs to be a related governmental physique. For researchers, the nominating company will be the institute or educational division of the college to which they’re affiliated.

Nominating companies are invited to submit two copies of the Nomination Form:

• One scanned model of the signed authentic; and
• One digital model.

The Nomination Form ought to ideally be despatched by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to: +49 40 35607-245, or by put up to:

Office of the Registrar
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Am Internationalen Seegerichtshof 1
22609 Hamburg
Germany

For extra info, go to ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training.