KWI International Fellowships 2025

The KWI fellowship program is designed for excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences. The institute provides fellows with modern infrastructure, office space, technical support and offers a library service, event and research management as well as administrative and communicative support.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirments
• Application Documents
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineAugust 29, 2025
• Study LevelPostdoctoral Fellowships
• SponsorInstitute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen
• City to studyNorth Rhine-Westphalia
• School to studyInstitute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

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Benefits

• Selected fellows will receive a fellowship contract (not a full-employment contract) and a monthly allowance of 3.000 € (pre-tax). This allowance is intended to cover rent, insurances and living expenses. Partial reimbursement of travel expenses for arrival at and departure from KWI is also possible. Fellows are responsible for covering any additional travel expenses, such as those related to conferences, using their allowance.

Requirements

• Research fellows who have completed their PhD and have up to six years of post-doctoral experience.
• Project proposals should address KWI's research agenda.
• The KWI International Fellowship Program is open to researchers from around the world.
• German nationals may only apply if they are currently employed at an international institute.

Application Documents

• CV,
• List of publications,
• PhD certificate,
• Proposal sketching your KWI project (up to max. 5,000 characters).

Application Deadline

How To Apply

• We kindly ask you to apply in the form of one single PDF file (max. 20 MB) which must be submitted electronically to [email protected]
  • [Due to IT safety regulations, we cannot accept applications via links to external platforms.]
• The application must be formulated in English and must contain a CV, a list of publications, a PhD certificate, and a proposal sketching your KWI project (up to max. 5,000 characters).
• The application deadline is August 29, 2025, 24:00 (midnight, CET). We will not consider applications that are incomplete or submitted after this date.
• The fellows will be selected by a committee assembling members of the KWI governing board and the institute's director.

Further information about the application process can be found in the FAQs

• For further questions, please contact [email protected]

For more information, kindly visit KWI scholarship webpage.