Deadline- October 1, 2012
Countries/Regi0n- Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan or Ukraine
Open Society Foundations offers Think Tank Fund for Young Professional Development Program for MA and PhD graduates who graduated with a PhD, LLM or MA degree in the social sciences and humanities from high-quality universities in the OECD countries in the past three years.
The Think Tank Fund has supported the efforts of think tanks by providing paid internships for returnees – fresh graduates from high-quality universities in the OECD countries – and fellowships for junior researchers from think tanks in the region to spend up to three months in another regional or Western European think tank in the past several years. With these activities, we hope to help young and talented people enter the region’s think tanks, provide additional capacity building with talented returnees getting engaged in policy-relevant research, analysis and advocacy under the guidance of experienced staff, and assist think tanks in recruiting new talent into their ranks.
The Think Tank Young Professional Development Program intends to attract recent graduates of MA and PhD programs in the social sciences and humanities to selected think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe, South Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, giving them an opportunity to gain first-hand policy research and advocacy experience at a renowned think tank in the region.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Have graduated in the past three years with a PhD, LLM or MA degree in the social sciences and humanities from universities in the OECD countries (with special encouragement to fellowship recipients of the Open Society Scholarship Programs and graduates of the Central European University).
- Be a citizen or permanent resident of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, South Caucasus and Central Asia listed above.
- Applicants should be between 23 and 35 years of age at the time of application.
- Applicants must be fluent in written and spoken English and the working language of the host organization.
How to Apply?
- Interested graduates should contact the think tanks directly and negotiate the topic area, policy product(s) and work plans for the engagement in this program.
- The potential host organizations will interview candidates, assess how their interests and skills correspond to the profile and needs of a potential host organization, and decide whether they are interested in working with the candidate. This decision should be clearly communicated to the candidate well before the deadline for submitting individual applications.
- Having been selected by the host organization, the candidate will then apply to the Think Tank Fund.
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