Application Deadline: May 31st, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Green Foreign Policy Fellowship. The fellowship aims to support scholars, practitioners and experts from across the world to galvanize these critical discussions, provide space, access and experience in the realm of progressive foreign & security policy. The programme will focus critically on how to best advance a green foreign & security policy, elaborating on the points of reference found and exploring new pathways in this process. The fellowship will cover participants’ travel and accommodation costs to attend relevant events, it will provide a stipend during the first semester when material will mainly be produced, while supporting the presentation of the participants’ work along with networking activities during the second semester.
Benefits
- Stipend: A sum of 6.000,00 euros (brutto) will be provided in instalments during the first semester of the fellowship.
- Travel Costs: To the extent possible, the Heinrich Böll Foundation will cover the cost of travel within the auspices of this fellowship.
- Visa Processing: If needed, the Foundation will support the visa application process by providing an official letter of invitation. Please note that the Foundation cannot guarantee that visas will be processed in time.
- Visibility & Dissemination: Selected fellows will be promoted on social media and other media channels to create a visible online presence around their aims and to amplify important political messages related to their work.
- Alumni network: Candidates should apply with the goal of becoming part of a growing network of progressive thinkers who support each other in advancing a new vision for foreign & security policy. Upon completion of their fellowship, participants will be awarded the title of Green Foreign Policy Scholar and will be part of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Thessaloniki Alumni Network.
Application Requirements
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is looking for candidates who are emerging or experienced thinkers in the fields of foreign & security policy, with an interest to work with a progressive lens on a range of issues. Indicatively, issues such as the universality of human rights and military intervention, normative foreign policy, feminist foreign policy and human security, climate diplomacy, game theory in international cooperation and good faith, the responsibility to protect, or decolonial approaches to trade and resources.
Qualified candidates will be actively engaged in outlining the green foreign & security policy narrative in at least one of the following ways:
- as students, researchers and thinkers in academia or think tanks (e.g. critically reviewing green foreign policy principles through International Relations theory);
- as elected officials, policy advisors or other foreign & security policy professionals at national or international level (e.g. implementing and adapting the green foreign & security policy and narrative, feminist foreign policy, the Women, Peace & Security agenda);
Applicant Profile
The organizaer encourage young graduates with a bachelor degree in international relations or political science to apply. The program welcome more experienced profiles, such as practitioners, prospective or current PhD students and PhD holders in pertinent fields.
Application Procedure:
pplications should consist of:
- Curriculum Vitae: Please use a Europass format. Prioritising, make sure the CV does not exceed 3 pages.
- Motivation letter: Using examples, please explain why this fellowship makes sense for you (max 300 words).
- Concept note: Please outline in no more than 2 pages, what is the biggest challenge you would like to tackle during this fellowship from among the elements of green foreign & security policy. How do you propose to deal with it and what are the concrete steps that you are planning to take?
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Green Foreign Policy Fellowship
