Apply for the Seckenburg 2025 Global Fellowships (stipends available): Frontiers in Nature Research and Conservation

Application period: September 1st, 2024 (0 am CEST) – October 1st, 2024 (12 pm CET)

Senckenberg offers fellowships to highly motivated and talented early career scientists (doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers) from the Global South (Ext. Link: List of countries belonging to the Global South).

About the Fellowships

The fellowships are awarded for a period of three to a maximum of six months each. Our goal is to support excellent research, to expand and strengthen the worldwide cooperation network and to contribute to the global exchange of knowledge.We cordially invite you to apply for a Global Fellowship fellowship at Senckenberg. Our fellows will have access to the 41 million objects in our Senckenberg collection, to our research laboratories and research infrastructures, to our libraries, and to the expertise of our scientific staff. At Senckenberg, you will find optimal working conditions and open-minded colleagues* with a broad range of scientific backgrounds in biodiversity, anthropology, geology, collection-based research, genomics, and conservation ecology.

Regular application deadlines are March 1st (12 pm CET) and October 1st (12 pm CEST) of each year. Opening of online application submission 4 weeks before deadline.We offer fellowships for PhD students (1,600 €/month) or postdocs (2,700 €/month) for 3 months, in selected cases for up to 6 months.In addition to the stipend, we offer a one-time travel allowance (up to 1,200 €)

Required application documents

1. Letter of motivation with information on your research interests and experience (max. 1 page, in the online form)
2. Description of your project idea (planned goals, implementation) for the research to be carried out within the framework of the fellowship, agreed upon with your host at Senckenberg. Please explain how the submitted project topic would enrich your personal range of methods and your research portfolio (especially for postdocs). Is this research topic breaking new ground? (max. 1 page, in the online form)
3. Letter of support from your host(s) at Senckenberg, acknowledging you and your proposed work, adding to the expertise of the host group, and outlining how your stay will add value to Senckenberg as well. Please explain how the named project topic fits into the Senckenberg research landscape, how the Fellow’s project will enrich the research of your working group and the research field as a whole. Will new ground be broken or existing knowledge gaps closed? (max. 1 page – upload)
4. Your current curriculum vitae, including a complete list of your publications (upload)
5. Certificates of your Master’s degree and, if applicable, of your PhD (upload)Optional: further letters of recommendation (e.g. from mentors, supervisors; upload)

Global South

The OECD maintains a list of the so-called countries of the Global South, to which we adhere. The list is available at the following link: https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC-List-of-ODA-Recipients-for-reporting-2022-23-flows.pdfYou can find more information on how this list is being created here: https://data.oecd.org/oda/net-oda.htm

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