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IIAS Asia in the World Fellowship Programme

International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)

A research fellowship for young and mid-career social sciences and humanities scholars studying Asia, based in Leiden.

📍 Leiden, NetherlandsUnpaidMedium
#fellowship#asian-studies#humanities
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ODI Fellowship Scheme

ODI Global (Overseas Development Institute)

A two-year fixed-term placement of young economists and statisticians as civil servants in finance ministries, central banks, and statistical offices in developing countries, running since 1963.

📍 Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Pacific, Western BalkansPaidHard
#fellowship#economics#development
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Chatham House Academy Fellowship

Chatham House

A ten-month in-person international affairs research fellowship in London, with four fellows selected per cohort.

📍 London, United KingdomStipendHard
#fellowship#international-affairs#uk
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Chatham House Global Platform for Action Fellowship

Chatham House

A ten-month in-person London fellowship on humanitarian energy and climate/displacement policy, run with UNITAR and Oxford's Refugee-Led Research Hub.

📍 London, United KingdomStipendHard
#fellowship#climate-policy#humanitarian
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IAPS AI Policy Fellowship

Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)

A four-month remote-first AI policy research program with a mandatory two-week Washington DC residency.

📍 United States / Remote worldwidePaidMedium
#fellowship#ai-policy#remote
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James Martin Center Visiting Fellows Program

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute

A nonproliferation and weapons-of-mass-destruction policy research fellowship based at the Middlebury Institute.

📍 Monterey, California / Washington, DC, USAUnpaidHard
#fellowship#nonproliferation#security
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Early Career

Think Visegrad Fellowship

International Visegrad Fund

A six- to eight-week fellowship at Central European think tanks in Czechia, Hungary, Poland, or Slovakia, producing a policy paper.

📍 Czechia, Hungary, Poland, SlovakiaPaidMedium
#fellowship#policy#central-europe
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Early Career

Bruegel Visiting Fellowship

Bruegel

A flexible-duration research fellowship, from days to a year, for economists at a leading Brussels-based EU economic policy think tank.

📍 Brussels, BelgiumPaidMedium
#fellowship#economics#eu-policy
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Early Career

ACET Transformation Fellowship

African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)

Specialized fellowship tracks on structural change, productivity, gender, resilience, and evidence-based policymaking supporting ACET's research agenda.

📍 Ghana / Africa-wideUnpaidMedium
#fellowship#economics#africa
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Early Career

World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program

World Bank

An eight-month fellowship (September-May) matching developing-country researchers with World Bank research economists in Washington DC.

📍 Washington, DC, USAStipendHard
#fellowship#development-economics#world-bank
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Early Career

Yale Jackson School Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship

Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

A five-month hybrid program for sixteen Global South climate and clean-energy practitioners, with sessions at Yale and in Paris.

📍 United States / France (hybrid)PaidHard
#fellowship#climate-policy#global-south
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CEEW Global South Fellowship

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

A six- to twelve-month fellowship at Asia's leading climate and energy policy think tank in New Delhi for emerging climate leaders worldwide.

📍 New Delhi, IndiaUnpaidMedium
#fellowship#climate-policy#india
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IISS Southeast Asian Young Leaders Programme Visiting Fellowship

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Up to three months at the IISS Singapore office, including participation in the Shangri-La Dialogue and Young Leaders Programme.

📍 SingaporeStipendHard
#fellowship#security#southeast-asia
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Stimson Center South Asia Program Visiting Fellowship

Stimson Center

A year-long research fellowship for India- and Pakistan-based analysts, combining ten months of research in the home country with one month in Washington DC, running since 1993.

📍 India / Pakistan / Washington, DCStipendHard
#fellowship#south-asia#security
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Stimson Center South Asia Program Junior Fellowship

Stimson Center

A one-year, full-time Washington DC-based fellowship for early-career analysts researching South Asia security issues.

📍 Washington, DC, USAPaidHard
#fellowship#south-asia#security
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TIMEP Nonresident Fellowship

Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP)

Supports MENA-based advocates, scholars, and analysts working on-the-ground for transparent, accountable governance.

📍 MENA region (nonresident)UnpaidMedium
#fellowship#mena#governance
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Bassem Sabry Democracy Fellowship

Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP)

A six-month in-person fellowship in Washington DC for MENA-focused advocates of democratic, inclusive change, now in its tenth cohort.

📍 Washington, DC, USAStipendHard
#fellowship#democracy#mena
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HIIA Future Leaders Program

Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA)

A three-month in-person foreign policy research fellowship in Budapest for young international affairs professionals.

📍 Budapest, HungaryStipendMedium
#fellowship#foreign-policy#hungary
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Institute for Global Affairs Nonresident Fellowship (Independent America Program)

Institute for Global Affairs (Eurasia Group)

A one-year nonresident program for scholars and analysts working on rethinking US foreign policy for new global realities.

📍 United States (nonresident)PaidMedium
#fellowship#foreign-policy#think-tank
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EDUFI Fellowship

Government of Finland (Finnish National Agency for Education)

A Finnish government fellowship providing initial funding for foreign doctoral researchers to conduct thesis research at a Finnish university department.

📍 FinlandStipendMedium
#fellowship#finland#phd
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Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Herchel Smith Fund, University of Cambridge

Supports early-career researchers in biological and physical sciences, including chemistry and mathematics, at Cambridge.

📍 Cambridge, United KingdomStipendHard
#fellowship#science#postdoc
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Early Career

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Funds foreign postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at Japanese institutions under a host researcher.

📍 Japan (international applicants)StipendHard
#fellowship#research#japan
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ZSL EDGE Fellowship

Zoological Society of London

A 28-month leadership and training program for conservationists focused on Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species.

📍 Global SouthPaidHard
#fellowship#conservation#wildlife
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Early Career

Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship

The Company of Biologists

Funds collaborative lab visits for graduate students and postdocs in cell biology, developmental biology, and experimental biology.

📍 International (UK-based)PaidMedium
#fellowship#biology#collaboration
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Early Career

L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talents

L'Oréal Foundation / UNESCO

Selects fifteen top women scientists globally each year from national and regional L'Oréal-UNESCO winners for added international recognition and support.

📍 GlobalPaidHard
#fellowship#women-in-stem#science
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PowerLines Documentary Photography Fellowship

PowerLines Productions

A three-month documentary photography fellowship focused on economic and human issues.

📍 United States / InternationalPaidHard
#fellowship#photography#documentary
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CanadaLand Audio Journalism Fellowship

Canadaland

A fellowship for producing a twenty- to thirty-minute audio journalism project published on the Canadaland network.

📍 CanadaPaidMedium
#fellowship#audio-journalism#canada
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Early Career

One World Media Fellowship

One World Media

A year-long program supporting global journalism and documentary storytelling from the Global South, with an assigned executive producer and workshops.

📍 United Kingdom (Global South focus)PaidMedium
#fellowship#journalism#global-south
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Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)

Supports the career development of an early-stage female or nonbinary journalist covering human rights and social justice, including MIT coursework and major newsroom internships.

📍 United States (international applicants)PaidHard
#fellowship#journalism#human-rights
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Points North Fellowship

Points North Institute

Supports early-to-mid-career nonfiction filmmakers, including an unrestricted grant for a feature documentary in post-production.

📍 United States (international projects)PaidHard
#fellowship#documentary#film
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Early Career

Firelight Media Documentary Lab

Firelight Media

A twelve-month fellowship for filmmakers of color working on a first or second feature documentary, with production mentorship.

📍 United StatesPaidHard
#fellowship#documentary#film
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Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship

Mongabay

A six-month remote fellowship supporting young or aspiring journalists from biodiversity hotspot countries reporting on environmental issues.

📍 Global (biodiversity hotspot countries)StipendMedium
#fellowship#journalism#conservation
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OWSD Early Career Fellowship

Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)

Supports early-career women scientists from developing countries to advance their research programs.

📍 Global SouthPaidHard
#fellowship#women-in-stem#research
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OWSD PhD Fellowship for Women Scientists

Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) / TWAS

Funds women from science-and-technology-lagging countries to pursue PhDs in natural, engineering, or IT sciences at Global South host institutes.

📍 Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America)PaidHard
#fellowship#women-in-stem#phd
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Early Career

British Academy International Fellowship

The British Academy

Supports emerging international research talent, including health-related humanities and social science work, to spend two years based in the United Kingdom.

📍 United Kingdom (international applicants)PaidHard
#fellowship#research#uk
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Royal Society Newton International Fellowship

The Royal Society (UK)

Funds early-career overseas researchers, including in biomedical and health sciences, to conduct two years of research in the United Kingdom.

📍 United Kingdom (international applicants)PaidHard
#fellowship#research#uk
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AMRF Career Advancement Fellowship

Auckland Medical Research Foundation

Supports researchers three to five years post-PhD advancing toward independent biomedical research careers in New Zealand.

📍 New ZealandPaidHard
#fellowship#biomedical-research#new-zealand
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Early Career

Auckland Medical Research Foundation First Fellowship

Auckland Medical Research Foundation

Supports outstanding graduates roughly two years post-PhD pursuing a biomedical research career in New Zealand.

📍 New ZealandPaidHard
#fellowship#biomedical-research#new-zealand
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Early Career

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowship in Public Health

Fulbright Program / Fogarty International Center (NIH)

Funds roughly ten researchers annually to conduct public health or clinical research in resource-limited settings abroad.

📍 United States (international placement)PaidHard
#fellowship#public-health#global-health
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ASH-EHA Translational Research Training in Hematology (TRTH)

American Society of Hematology & European Hematology Association

A year-long joint US-Europe training and mentoring program building translational hematology research careers for early-stage fellows.

📍 United States / EuropeUnpaidMedium
#fellowship#hematology#mentorship
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KidneyCure Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship

American Society of Nephrology (KidneyCure)

Funds postdoctoral fellows conducting original nephrology research under sponsor guidance.

📍 United StatesPaidHard
#fellowship#nephrology#research
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Funds recent MD, PhD, or MD/PhD graduates conducting basic cystic fibrosis research, with two application rounds each year.

📍 United StatesPaidHard
#fellowship#cystic-fibrosis#research
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MQ Mental Health Foundation Fellows Award

MQ Mental Health Research

Supports early-career mental health scientists to establish research independence, funding work across depression, psychosis, and related domains.

📍 United Kingdom (international host institutions considered)StipendHard
#fellowship#mental-health#research
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The Africa Institute Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship

The Africa Institute

A residency and grant supporting African and diaspora creative writers working on a major literary project, based in Sharjah.

📍 Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesPaidMedium
#fellowship#writing#africa
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Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship

Jerome Foundation

A flexible three-year fellowship for early-career generative artists across seven fields — dance, film, literature, music, theater, technology arts, and visual arts.

📍 Minnesota / New York City, USAPaidHard
#fellowship#arts#usa
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Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship

Fine Arts Work Center

A seven-month fellowship (October-May) for emerging writers and visual artists, providing an apartment, studio space, and a monthly stipend.

📍 Provincetown, Massachusetts, USAStipendHard
#fellowship#writing#visual-art
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Copland House CULTIVATE Fellowship

Copland House

A week-long, fully-scholarshipped intensive workshop and mentoring institute for emerging composers in their mid-to-late 20s.

📍 Cortlandt Manor, New York, USAStipendMedium
#fellowship#music-composition#usa
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NEA Translation Project Fellowships

National Endowment for the Arts

Federal fellowships for individual literary translators bringing prose, poetry, or drama into English, prioritizing underrepresented languages and voices.

📍 United StatesPaidHard
#fellowship#translation#literature
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Panthera Winston Cobb Memorial Fellowship

Panthera

A field-based internship providing training and experience on a wild cat conservation project.

📍 InternationalStipendMedium
#fellowship#wildlife#conservation
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Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct Fellowship

University of the South Pacific

A fellowship supporting emerging leaders from Pacific Island nations to build governance and public policy skills through structured coursework and mentorship.

📍 Fiji (Pacific Islands)StipendMedium
#fellowship#pacific-islands#oceania
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Kiva Fellows Program

Kiva

A volunteer fellowship placing early-career professionals with microfinance institutions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia to strengthen impact measurement and operations.

📍 Multiple countries in Latin America, Africa, and AsiaUnpaidMedium
#fellowship#microfinance#development
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African Union Youth Volunteer Corps

African Union

A continental volunteer program placing young African professionals in year-long service assignments across AU member states to build pan-African development capacity.

📍 Multiple African Union member statesStipendMedium
#fellowship#africa#volunteering
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Next Einstein Forum Fellowship

Next Einstein Forum / African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A fellowship recognizing outstanding young African scientists across all disciplines, providing a platform to showcase research and connect with global science leaders.

📍 Multiple African countries (biennial summit)UnpaidHard
#fellowship#africa#science
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Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders (YALI)

U.S. Department of State / Young African Leaders Initiative

A fully funded six-week leadership institute in the United States for young African leaders across business, civic, and public management tracks.

📍 United States (six-week institute)PaidHard
#fellowship#africa#leadership
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Obama Foundation Leaders Program

Obama Foundation

A leadership development program for civic and community leaders across regions (Africa, Asia-Pacific, USA, Europe), combining in-person convenings with ongoing skills training.

📍 Multiple regions worldwideUnpaidHard
#fellowship#leadership#civic-impact
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Reuters Institute Journalist Fellowship (Oxford)

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

A fellowship giving working journalists three to six months at Oxford to research a topic of their choice in journalism practice, combined with academic seminars.

📍 Oxford, United KingdomPaidHard
#fellowship#journalism#oxford
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Reporters Without Borders Digital Security Scholarship Program

Reporters Without Borders

A program sending journalists from conflict or high-risk zones to Berlin for intensive digital-security and safety training, with a living stipend during the program.

📍 Berlin, GermanyStipendMedium
#fellowship#journalism#digital-security
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India Health Policy and System Research Fellowship

Sir Ratan Tata Trust / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

A fellowship training graduates in rigorous Health Policy and Systems Research methods through mentored study on a real health-system problem in India.

📍 IndiaStipendHard
#fellowship#public-health#research
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AIF Banyan Impact Fellowship

American India Foundation

A fellowship placing young professionals with development organizations across India and the US to build cross-border development leadership skills.

📍 India and United StatesStipendMedium
#fellowship#development#india
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Early Career

Punjab Good Governance Fellowship Program

Government of Punjab / Indian School of Business

A fellowship placing graduates as Governance or District Development Fellows within the Punjab state government, combined with structured training at the Indian School of Business.

📍 Punjab, IndiaPaidMedium
#fellowship#governance#india
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LAMP Fellowship

Legislative Assistants to Members of Parliament (LAMP)

A fellowship placing young graduates as research assistants to sitting Indian Members of Parliament for a year, providing direct exposure to national policymaking.

📍 New Delhi, IndiaStipendMedium
#fellowship#policy#india
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Delhi Legislative Assembly Research Fellowship

Delhi Legislative Assembly Research Centre

A fellowship placing young people directly inside India's legislative process, supporting Members of the Delhi Assembly with policy research and drafting.

📍 Delhi, IndiaStipendMedium
#fellowship#governance#india
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KAUST Global Fellowship

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

A fully funded PhD fellowship at KAUST in Saudi Arabia across water, energy, food, health, and digital research areas, with a substantial stipend and research budget.

📍 Thuwal, Saudi ArabiaStipendHard
#fellowship#phd#research
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German Chancellor Fellowship

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

A twelve-month fellowship funding a self-designed project year in Germany for future leaders from the US, Russia, China, India, and Brazil, paired with a German mentor.

📍 GermanyPaidHard
#fellowship#germany#leadership
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Commonwealth Professional Fellowships

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (UK)

A short-term professional development placement (six weeks to three months) in the UK for mid-career professionals from Commonwealth developing countries.

📍 United KingdomPaidHard
#fellowship#professional-development#uk
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Bhumi Fellowship

Bhumi

A two-year paid fellowship placing graduates on school-transformation projects in Chennai, working directly with under-resourced government schools.

📍 Chennai, IndiaStipendMedium
#fellowship#education#india
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Goonj Grassroots Fellowship

Goonj

A yearlong fellowship immersing young people directly in grassroots community work across urban and rural India, focused on dignity-based development approaches.

📍 IndiaStipendMedium
#fellowship#rural-development#india
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Mongabay Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship

Mongabay

A six-month fellowship building environmental-journalism capacity in biodiversity-rich regions, pairing fellows with editorial mentorship at a leading conservation news outlet.

📍 Multiple biodiversity regionsStipendMedium
#fellowship#journalism#conservation
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Early Career

Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism

Reuters / Durham University

A nine-month fellowship pairing early-career journalists with Reuters mentors to build investigative-reporting skills, combining newsroom placement with academic study at Durham.

📍 United KingdomPaidHard
#fellowship#journalism#investigative
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TED Fellows Program

TED

A program that identifies innovators doing exceptional work across science, technology, art, and social impact, offering them a TED stage, public-speaking coaching, and a lasting peer community.

📍 Global (conference attendance required)UnpaidHard
#fellowship#innovation#public-speaking
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The Asia Foundation Development Fellows Program

The Asia Foundation

A leadership development fellowship for professionals under 40 working across Asia on governance, development, or social-impact challenges, combining regional and U.S.-based components.

📍 Multiple countries in Asia and the USUnpaidMedium
#fellowship#leadership#asia
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Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity

London School of Economics / Atlantic Institute

A fully funded year at LSE for professionals working to reduce social and economic inequality, combining an academic program with a global fellows network.

📍 London, United KingdomPaidHard
#fellowship#inequality#leadership
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FASPE Fellowships

Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics

A two-week program in Germany and Poland that takes early-career professionals from fields like law, medicine, journalism, and business through the history of the Holocaust to examine present-day professional ethics.

📍 Germany and PolandPaidMedium
#fellowship#ethics#professional-development
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Journalist Fellowship Programme

Thomson Reuters Foundation / University of Oxford

A fully funded fellowship at Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, giving working journalists three to six months to research and reflect on a topic in their field.

📍 Oxford, United KingdomPaidHard
#fellowship#journalism#oxford
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SBI Youth for India Fellowship

State Bank of India Foundation

A 13-month fellowship placing young professionals with grassroots NGOs across rural India to work directly on development projects in health, education, livelihoods and the environment.

📍 Rural IndiaStipendMedium
#fellowship#rural-development#india
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Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship

Stanford University

A ten-month, full-time fellowship training clinicians, engineers, and business professionals to identify unmet health needs and invent new medical technologies from scratch.

📍 Stanford, California, USAStipendHard
#fellowship#medtech#innovation
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Einstein Fellowship (Einstein Forum)

Einstein Forum

A residential fellowship at Einstein's former summer house in Caputh, Germany, giving a scholar or professional time and space to pursue a project outside their usual field.

📍 Caputh, GermanyStipendMedium
#fellowship#germany#interdisciplinary
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Humboldt Research Fellowship

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

A postdoctoral research fellowship enabling researchers of any nationality to conduct a self-chosen, long-term research project in Germany with a host of their choice.

📍 GermanyStipendHard
#fellowship#research#germany
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NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program

NVIDIA

A research fellowship for PhD students in fields like AI, graphics, robotics, and systems, providing funding plus a paid internship at NVIDIA Research.

📍 Multiple countriesStipendHard
#fellowship#phd#ai
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Rotary Peace Fellowship

The Rotary Foundation

A fully funded fellowship at one of Rotary's Peace Centers worldwide for a master's degree or professional development certificate in peace and conflict resolution.

📍 Multiple countriesPaidHard
#fellowship#peace#conflict-resolution
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Obama Foundation Scholars Program

Obama Foundation / Columbia University

A nine-month, non-degree leadership program at Columbia University for young professionals already working on community and civic challenges in their home countries.

📍 New York, USAPaidHard
#fellowship#leadership#civic-impact
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Schwarzman Scholars Program

Schwarzman Scholars / Tsinghua University

A fully funded one-year master's program in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed to build a network of future leaders with firsthand understanding of China.

📍 Beijing, ChinaPaidHard
#fellowship#china#leadership
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