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EUPeace Fellowships

The EUPeace University Alliance invites all interested early-career researchers (doctoral candidates and post-docs) to apply for its Fellowship Programme 2025. The EUPeace Fellowship Programme provides a mobility funding for early-career researchers from all EUPeace Alliance member institutions for completing a fellowship at another EUPeace Alliance member institution. 

The European University for Peace, Justice and Inclusive Society, EUPeace, evolves out of nine core member universities that have committed their strategic international outlook in teaching, research and administration in higher education to foster a peaceful, just, and inclusive European landscape, at various levels. For this, we explicitly address all sciences and research fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and life sciences as well as engineering.

 General Information:

Who can apply: Early-career researchers (doctoral candidates and post-docs) who have to be enrolled PhD students or active staff of the EUPeace alliance members

Duration of the EUPeace Fellowship: One, two or three months

Starting date: From May 2025 on until December 2025. For Fellowships from January 2026 on, there will be a second EUPeace Fellowship Call 2026 

Universities from the EUPeace Alliance participating in the Fellowship Programme:
Germany: Marburg University (UMR), Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU); France: University of Limoges (UNILIM); Italy: University of Calabria (UNICAL); Spain: Comillas Pontifical University (COMILLAS); Czechia: University of West Bohemia (UWB); Bosnia and Herzegovina: University of Mostar (SUM), University of Sarajevo (UNSA); Turkey: Çukurova University (CU)

Financial Arrangements: The fellowship is financially granted by funds from the EUPeace University Alliance and subject to the allocation of funds by the EU to the EUPeace Work Package 6. The fellowships will be paid as mobility funding, either in the form of a lump sum or in the form of an individual coverage which means that travel costs, accommodation costs and daily allowances will be paid according to the local regulations of the fellow’s home university. For all universities and payment schemes (lump sum or individual coverage), additional funds are available for fellows with familial obligations or special mobility needs. Detailed information on the mobility funding can be found in the EUPeace Fellowship Call. 

Important Documents: The EUPeace Fellowship Call entails many details on the EUPeace Fellowship Programme, the financial regulations for the respective universities as well as regulations that are specific to some universities. In addition, the EUPeace Fellowship Framework is the legal basis for doing a fellowship and you should engage with it when considering to apply for the fellowship programme.

Application deadline: 14.03.2025

The EUPeace Reseach Hubs:

The Fellowships are organised in the framework of the EUPeace Research Hubs, which also means that the Research Hubs will decide on which fellowships are going to be endorsed. Four Research Hubs have been established within the EUPeace Alliance:

1. Security and Conflict Transformation
2. Climate Science and Just Transition
3. Migration and Human Rights
4. Inclusive Health and Well-Being

The Research Hubs mobilise existing research strengths of the EUPeace Alliance and foster collaboration in all subject areas in order to create excellent inter- and transdisciplinary research for peace, justice, and inclusive societies. This also includes the natural sciences as well as engineering. The Research Hub members come from all Alliance members and from various research disciplines. The Research Hub‘s profiles and member lists can be accessed by clicking on the links to their respective websites.

How to apply:

To apply for a fellowship, you need to supply the documents below and send them to eupeace-fellowships@uni-marburg.de by the application deadline. The applications will then be forwarded to the Research Hubs which will decide on which fellowships are going to be endorsed.

Application documents:

• CV
• Application Form
• Signed Letter of Invitation

All documents must be provided in English and signed. Please note that the Letter of Invitation must be signed by the hosting institution as well.

Further documents that will inform your application: The EUPeace Fellowship Call & the EUPeace Fellowship Framework

Overall Selection Criteria:

• Motivation for doing a fellowship within the framework of EUPeace and contribution to foster research in relation to peace, justice and inclusive societies
• Relevance of the fellowship for the Alliance member institutions’ long-term cooperation
• Relevance of the fellowship for the Research Hub
• The fellowship’s scientific innovation potential and/or contribution to creating future funding bids
• Academic and/or societal outreach expected from the fellowship
• Personal, structural or academic circumstances which foster the fellowship’s contribution to diversity in the research field (e.g. countering personal barriers in the research trajectory, countering structural discrimination/underrepresentation within the research field, contributing academically to an under-researched topic)

Application and Selection Process:

1. Potential fellowship candidates actively seek a possible hosting person/institution within a Research Hub. This can be done via the Research Hubs‘ websites. Potential fellowship candidates contact a possible host and share their ideas for the fellowship. If the Research Hub member is interested in hosting the potential fellow, the subject and purpose of the fellowship (as stated in the Application form) can be co-determined. The timeline of the fellowship can be determined together by the potential fellow and the host. Please, be aware that for some universities, you might need 3 to 6 preparatory months before starting a fellowship (e.g. if you need a visa or if access to specific laboratories is required). Finally, both parties have to sign the Letter of Invitation, in order to apply to the WP6 team.
2. The WP6 team clusters the fellowship applications for the Research Hubs. The fellowship applications will be forwarded to the Research Hubs.
3. The Research Hubs selects which fellowships are going to be endorsed on the basis of the selection criteria listed above. The list of selected candidates is sent to the WP6 team.
4. The WP6 team will get in contact with the selected fellows and the fellowship hosts and proceed with ensuring the fellowship payment, in accordance with local regulations.

Contact persons:

For questions, please refer to the EUPeace Call for Fellowships or contact your local Fellowship Coordinator: