The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s (HBS) Feminist Futures Fellowship 2027 for young feminists (Fully Funded to CSW 71 in New York, USA)

Application Deadline: November 2nd, 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2027 Heinrich Böll (*71*)’s (HBS) Feminist Futures Fellowship. The Heinrich Böll (*71*)’s (HBS), Washington DC Office is happy to announce the fifth iteration of its CSW Fellowship. The fellowship goals to help feminist specialists from the Global Majority to be part of the annual session on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is able to happen in New York City from March 8-19, 2027. Next 12 months’s session will revolve across the precedence theme, ‘Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. The fellowship will cowl contributors’ journey and lodging prices to attend the CSW, present passes to the CSW conferences, in addition to Opportunities to attend supplementary conferences and occasions tailor-made to the fellowship.

The key targets of this fellowship alternative are:

• To function a mechanism by means of which rising feminist leaders can establish points that require additional debate and advocacy, and the place alternate between related actors will be facilitated.
• To present house, entry, and expertise in the realm of worldwide establishments and join underrepresented voices to related decision-makers.
• To present a studying and networking expertise for rising and skilled feminist leaders. As a consequence, contributors can be higher ready to pursue their coverage and advocacy goals and faucet into a world community of like-minded change-makers;
• To allow extra intergenerational and cross-regional debate on feminist concepts;

Program Details

• Travel to the US and take part on the CSW 71: All candidates should be accessible to journey to the US throughout a 7-day interval in the course of the convention dates in March 2027. The precise dates of the journey can be set as soon as the CSW program is introduced.
• Engage in discussions and supply thematic inputs: Once chosen, fellows can be requested to present a brief assertion/technique outlining what targets they goal to obtain on the CSW (e.g. an intervention throughout a particular occasion, focused networking on a particular problem, and many others.). During the alternate go to, contributors can be requested to share their key insights and experience in private and non-private occasions, workshops and conferences. Participants are free to select CSW and NGO facet occasions how they see match however are anticipated to attend conferences and exchanges organized by the Heinrich Böll (*71*).
• Active social media engagement: In the lead-up to, throughout, and after the CSW, contributors are anticipated to actively have interaction with the Heinrich Böll (*71*) over social media channels to report on their experiences. Fellows are anticipated to present fast and concise statements and messages from the occasions they attend to share classes amongst one another and with a broader public. The (*71*) can even publish a profile of every participant on the web site of its Washington DC office and its Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy
• Be part of a rising community

Benefits

• Travel Costs: The Heinrich Böll (*71*) will cowl the price of worldwide flights; transportation to the departing and arriving airport, up to 7 nights of lodging in New York City and well being/journey insurance coverage.
• Visibility and Platform: Before the CSW, chosen fellows can be promoted on social media channels to create a visual on-line platform round their goals and to amplify vital political messages associated to the CSW.
• CSW Registration: The (*71*) will facilitate convention registration, accreditation, and entry.
• Skills and Network: The chosen fellows will get entry to the worldwide HBS community, introductory classes and strategizing workshops forward of CSW, networking occasions, bi- and multilateral conferences, in addition to casual classes for alternate throughout CSW.

Application Procedure:

Experience and applicant profile: CSW reserve a certain amount of seats for candidates who’re young feminists (between the ages of 21 and 35) and who haven’t but attended a CSW in the previous. Also contemplating extra skilled profiles, we hope to create an area that encourages studying and alternate inside the group. We additionally encourage HBS accomplice organizations with or with out CSW expertise to apply and point out their connection to HBS in their application.

Regional background: in 2027, CSW is searching for candidates primarily based in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Applications ought to encompass:

1. Resume: Please use an ordinary US format. Standard US resumes don’t embrace footage or marital/familial standing and have a most of two pages. Please point out your age, as we reserve some fellowships for candidates aged 21-35.
2. Challenge / motivational assertion: Please write a brief (max 300 phrases) reflection on the largest problem you see for the motion in direction of gender equality or ladies’s rights proper now. How do you plan to take care of it and what are concrete steps that you’re at present taking? How will your participation on the CSW enable you navigate these challenges?
3. Post-Fellowship Communications: Fellows could also be invited to write a brief article, commentary, or weblog publish reflecting their fellowship expertise and key learnings. Please embrace your reply to the next questions in your motivational assertion: 
4. 1. Would you be keen to write a brief article, commentary, or weblog publish following the fellowship
   2. If sure, do you have already got any concepts for a subject or angle you want to to discover? (Maximum 200 phrases)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s (HBS) Feminist Futures Fellowship