Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Green Foreign Policy Fellowship 2025 (6.000,00 EUROS STIPEND)

Applications are now open for the 2025 Green Foreign Policy Fellowship offered by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. This fellowship supports emerging thinkers, scholars, and practitioners from around the world who are passionate about progressive foreign and security policy with a focus on environmental sustainability. Participants will receive a €6,000 stipend during the first semester to develop research and materials, along with full coverage of travel and accommodation to attend key events. The second semester will focus on presenting fellows’ work and fostering networking opportunities. The program is designed to explore innovative approaches to advancing a green foreign and security policy, offering both intellectual space and practical experience.

Benefits of Green Foreign Policy Fellowship

• 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.

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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.

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