Call for Applications: Eight AiE Fellowships for Afghans at risk

Application deadline is November 10, 2021

Academy in Exile invites Afghans at risk to apply for 24-month fellowships at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Universität Duisburg-Essen. Eligible are Afghans working in the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and the arts, who are at risk because of their professional work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of free speech. Academy in Exile fellowships provide recipients with the opportunity to reestablish themselves in Germany and to work on their own project in a multidisciplinary environment. Fellows contribute to the research agenda and intellectual profile of Academy in Exile and participate in affiliated research projects.

Please find the complete call here.

Please find the applicant information form here.

Please submit your application to academyinexile@uni-due.de as one PDF and name the file as follows: surname_first name.