Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Early Career Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2027/2028 – YOA

Deadline: September 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Early Career Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2027/2028. Each educational 12 months the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin affords a number of 10-month fellowships for excellent early profession students in the humanities and social sciences.

Successful candidates will turn out to be members of a vigorous mental neighborhood of roughly forty Fellows from throughout the world, representing disciplines in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, in addition to the arts. The Institute affords wonderful assist for Fellows’ analysis, in addition to assist to each Fellows and their households in settling in to Berlin life.

At the coronary heart of the Wissenschaftskolleg is the concept that Fellows will need to have the freedom to decide on their very own analysis challenge. The Fellows’ solely obligations are to reside at the Wissenschaftskolleg for 10 months (September to the finish of June), and to satisfy as soon as a day for a meal and every Tuesday for the weekly Colloquium. Such an intellectually heterogeneous environment typically creates a productive friction that leads Fellows to rethink their approaches, and could result in sudden insights.

Eligibility

• Applications from early-profession students from all nations and all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities are welcome.
• Applicants ought to possess a doctorate granted not more than 5 years earlier than the fellowship begins.
• Although scholarly communication at the Institute takes place in English and all fellows are anticipated to have the ability to talk about their very own work and that of others in that language, functions may additionally be submitted in German and French.

Selection can be primarily based on the applicant’s educational {qualifications}, together with publications commensurate with the applicant’s self-discipline and profession stage, and a analysis challenge that the applicant intends to pursue throughout the fellowship.

Application

The deadline for functions for the educational 12 months 2027/2028 is September 1, 2026 (23:59 CET); candidates can be notified by December 1, 2026.

The following knowledge are required in the application: 

• Personal and institutional data (corresponding to title, tackle, educational levels, date of diploma, and many others.)
• Project title
• Short bio
• Bibliographical data on not less than three of the candidate’s main publications, of which not less than one must be in English.

These 4 paperwork should be uploaded (PDF format solely, 10 MB max. file dimension every):

• An in depth curriculum vitae (together with a listing of publications)
• An outline of the challenge the candidate want to work on throughout his or her residency in Berlin (approx. 500 phrases, together with 10 references)
• A current article that characterizes the candidate’s work (in German, English or French)
• A letter of motivation (approx. 200 phrases)

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For extra data, go to Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Early Career Fellowships.