Academy of International Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia (AIA NRW) Fellowship 2027-2028 – YOA

Deadline: May 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Academy of International Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia (AIA NRW) Fellowship 2027-2028. The Academy of International Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia (AIA NRW) invites excellent students (publish-doc stage and upwards) and practitioners from politics, diplomacy, media, enterprise, and civil society to apply for fellowships with a length between three and ten months at AIA NRW in Bonn.

Located in Bonn, UN-City and one of Germany’s key facilities for worldwide cooperation and international governance, AIA NRW gives knowledgeable platform and a singular setting that fosters dynamic, vibrant trade in a global and interdisciplinary setting.

Applicants can apply to 1 of the next two tracks:

• Academic Track: For tasks which have an express educational focus, linking as much as ongoing or rising educational debates, and supply a transparent goal on how they contribute to a greater understanding of worldwide politics.
• Practitioner’s Track: For tasks that replicate on worldwide politics from the attitude of sensible expertise in a related skilled discipline and supply a transparent goal on how they contribute to a greater understanding of worldwide politics.

Benefits

• Fellowships can take the shape of paid/unpaid leaves, compensation prices paid to the home establishment, or a stipend. AIA NRW gives lodging for the fellows and their households and covers journey bills to and from Bonn.
• Fellows are allotted workplace house and the mandatory analysis infrastructures to conduct their tasks in addition to some additional particular person budgets for analysis bills. Final fellowship durations are awarded based mostly on undertaking scope, board evaluation, and out there funding.

Eligibility

• Open to excellent students (publish-doc stage and upwards) and practitioners from politics, diplomacy, media, enterprise, and civil society.
• The Academy significantly encourages purposes that mix analytical excellence with coverage relevance and that contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue on the longer term of European and worldwide safety.

Application

Applicants must submit a type for candidates and the next paperwork compiled in a single PDF:

• a letter of motivation;
• a proposal of their envisaged educational undertaking at AIA NRW (max. 5 pages together with an summary; together with guiding (analysis) questions, a short abstract of the state of analysis within the respective discipline, a selected work plan/timetable and focused outputs in addition to the anticipated added worth of the keep in Bonn within the specific setting of AIA NRW);
• a brief CV (max. 2 pages).

Additionally for the educational monitor:

• licensed documentation of their PhD certificates;
• an entire listing of publications, and
• digital copies of 2-3 current (journal) publications (in English).

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For extra info, go to Academy of International Affairs Fellowship.