Deadline: 1 December 2015
The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident Fellows Program offers academics, artists, and practitioners a serene setting conducive to focused, goal-oriented work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with fellow residents from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines and geographies.
The Foundation’s Bellagio Residency Program has a track record for supporting the generation of important new knowledge addressing some of the most complex issues facing our world, and innovative new works of art that inspire reflection and understanding of global and social issues.
Program Objectives
- Advancing inclusive economies that expand opportunities for more broadly shared prosperity, and
- Building resilience by helping people, communities and institutions prepare for, withstand, and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses.
Focus Areas
- Advance Health
- Revalue Ecosystems
- Secure Livelihoods
- Transform Cities
Eligibility Criteria
- Residencies are open to university or think-thank based academics in all disciplines, literary artists, visual artists, and practitioners from a variety of fields, particularly those working on socially impactful endeavors.
- The Bellagio Arts & Literary Arts residency is for artists working in any discipline including composers, fiction and non-fiction writers, playwrights, poets, video/filmmakers, and visual artists who share in the Foundation’s mission of promoting the well-being of humankind and whose work is inspired by or relates to global or social issues.
- The Center also welcomes applications from practitioners, defined as senior-level policymakers, nonprofit leaders, journalists, private sector leaders and public advocates with ten or more years of leadership experience in a variety of fields and sectors.
- The Academic Writing residency is for university and think tank-based academics, researchers, professors, and scientists working in any discipline.
How to Apply
Applicants must apply online through the website.
For more information, please visit Rockefeller fellows program.
