There is a chance for those dreaming of pursuing their higher education abroad to fulfill their dreams, the Fully Funded IIE-SRF Fellowships in the UK 2024 is opened. This article is concerned with the benefits and the stepwise procedure of the IIE-SRF application form.
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IIE-SRF Scholarship 2024
The international students will have IIE-SRF to be a fully-funded scholarship. It is for doctoral research study programs. This scholarship gives one’s health insurance, and visiting academic appointments will be supported for up to one year also with US$25,000. The German State of Baden-Württemberg manages to keep the visiting research appointments via the Baden-Württemberg Fund at the universities and other higher education institutions in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
The researchers there can continue their jobs in their respective fields of liberty and security. The candidates as government intellectuals, teachers, and senior scientists belonging to any nation, discipline, or academic field will be found eligible who have either faced or recently fled any immediate or targeted threat to their careers or lives in a hometown or nation of their permanent residence.
By 2002, this IIE fellowship program’s trustees had devoted themselves to continuing to rescue the scholars as mentioned above. Since 1919, when the institute was founded, the core mission and the prime objective of this institute is to protect endangered researchers and students. IIE has dedicated itself to defending the right to the liberty of thought and pursuit of information from the Bolshevik Revolution to the Hungarian Uprising.
About the Fully Funded IIE-SRF Fellowships in the UK 2024
- Degree: Ph.D. (Doctoral)
- Institution: IIE-SRF
- Country to Study in: Host Partners
- Courses Offered: Candidates/ Applicants can apply to the fellowship belonging to any discipline.
- Program Duration: One to Two years
- Deadline: Open all year round
Scholarship Coverage
The IIE-SRF fellowship awards 2024 the following benefits to its recipients:
- Up to US$25,000 as a grant
- Individual health insurance
- Managing visiting academic appointments for up to one year (also renewable for a second year).
- The ultimate amount of fellowship depends on the following factors, host institution’s location, living cost, along with the value of any additional contributions or another source (s) from the host institution.
Eligibility Criteria for IIE-SRF Fellowship
The following are the requirements for the eligible candidates of the IIE-SRF Fellowship:
- The required language is English.
- Eligible Countries: All world countries
- The Professors, senior researchers, and public intellectuals belonging to any academic field/ discipline and country can qualify.
- Academic qualifications are reviewed per candidate to determine the applicant’s work potential and the severity of the intensity of threats faced.
Selection Preference
Preferentially the following candidates are selected:
- One holding a Ph.D. or highest degree in their field and whoever has extensive teaching experience/ research experience at college, university, or any other higher learning institutes;
- One who is facing or has recently fled from an immediate, severe, or any targeted threat either to their careers or lives in their residential countries or their hometowns;
- One demonstrating a superior academic accomplishment and promise;
- One will be benefited from host academic communities or homes.
How to Apply for IIE-SRF Fellowship 2024?
The steps mentioned should be followed to avail of the IIE-SRF Fellowship:
(1). The potential Applicants can either apply directly or can have a third party submit application materials on their behalf. The materials required for the application are:
- Application cover sheet
- Academic statement. Please provide the institute with a piece of conscientious information regarding your educational background and professional experience, along with a scrupulous description of your interests in academic research. Please make sure that you include details of the activities undertaken during research, publishing, teaching, etc., as well as in your academic position in the fellowship program. The academic statement that you have to provide should minimally be one page.
- Provide your current/ up-to-date resume or CV.
- Personal statement. Please ensure you provide a piece of thorough information explaining why you are applying for the IIE-SRF support program. It should include a wise, transparent, and detailed account of the threats/ risks faced along with the reason why you are incapable of continuing your work in your hometown at this very time. The statement should minimally be on a single page.
- Two (2) academic/professional letters of reference via educational and professional colleagues
- Two personal letters of reference from colleagues or persons, well aware of the problems you face along with the professional background. It would help if you directed your referees to compose the letters mentioned above on the official letterhead and directly send them to IIE-SRF at srf@iie.org.
- A Ph.D. copy or higher degree
- Samples of your recent writing.
- A letter from an accredited institution of learning enables you to host your fellowship. It’s not a requirement.
(2). Please submit all the materials as mentioned above of application preferentially via email, fax, or post.
(3). Letters may be addressed to:
Scholar Rescue Fund
Institute of International Education
809 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017-3580
USA
