FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme for Researchers from Africa 2027/2028 – YOA

Deadline: September 18, 2026

Applications are open for the FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme for Researchers from Africa 2027/2028. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the worldwide analysis faculty of the University of Freiburg. It brings collectively students from Freiburg and around the globe, providing non permanent fellowships that enable researchers to focus completely on their initiatives inside a vibrant group of various cultural and tutorial backgrounds. FRIAS offers distinctive assist to assist fellows succeed.

For the tutorial yr 2027/28, FRIAS is providing particular person Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowships for Researchers from Africa. The fellowships can be found to researchers from any nationality primarily based in an African establishment. The programme gives entry to the assets, networks, and tutorial group of the University of Freiburg, enhancing your analysis via new views and collaborative alternatives.

Fellowship

• Depending on their scenario, chosen candidates will both obtain a fellowship contract with the University of Freiburg or different compensation.
• Fellows obtain a analysis price contribution and journey prices for the inbound and the outbound journey.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a accomplished doctoral diploma plus a minimal of eight years of submit-doctoral expertise. 
• Applicants should have 5 peer-reviewed publications since 1 January 2017, together with not less than one with or as a co-writer.
• Applicants should be primarily based in an African nation.  
• Applicants should have not less than six months’ analysis or study expertise at tutorial establishment(s) in a rustic totally different from the nation of their first tutorial diploma by the point of application AND have acquired a Master/PhD in an African nation.
• Fellowships shall be awarded to people with difficult and progressive analysis initiatives of prime tutorial high quality via a extremely aggressive, strictly advantage-primarily based choice course of (anticipated success price: ~10% of eligible purposes).
• Only purposes from disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences with a thematic concentrate on sustainable governance shall be thought of. A letter of cooperation by an educational associate on the University of Freiburg is required. 

Application

Information on the candidate and challenge (summary, Layman’s summary to speak the analysis challenge to a basic public, moral situation desk, motivation assertion) should be crammed into the net application kind.

Additionally, the next attachments are required to be uploaded to the application portal:

• Project proposal (max. 3000 phrases together with footnotes, headers, footers, and bibliographical references, 4 graphs) (PDF, for necessary construction confer with the application guide)
• CV in tabular kind (PDF, necessary template accessible within the application portal)
• Publication checklist (PDF): Applicants should present an inventory of publications that will not exceed 8 publications in complete. 5 of these publications should be printed after 1 January 2017 and should be peer-reviewed, together with not less than one with or as a co-writer. (PDF, necessary template accessible within the application portal). 
• Copy of the PhD diploma (PDF)
• Letter of Cooperation by an educational associate on the University of Freiburg who will assist the challenge in the course of the keep in Freiburg. The tutorial associate should maintain the title of a professor.

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For extra info, go to FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship.