Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists
This is an opportunity to spend three months in Vienna working on your book, article, or programme. The Institute for Humanities Sciences in Vienna will provide the scholarship, a comfortable working space, and access to all the facilities.
The scholarship is provided by the Institute for Human Sciences in partnership with ERSTE Foundation та Project Syndicate. This is one of thousands of EU opportunities for Ukraine.
- A monthly stipend of EUR 3,300
- The opportunity to devote three months to work on your book, article, film, podcast, TV or radio show between September 2025 and June 2026
- A comfortable workspace and access to all the Institute’s facilities
This scholarship is for you if you:
- Have been working in media for more than two years: on television, radio, or in a print or online publication
- Have an outstanding professional portfolio
- Completed application form
- CV including a list of publications
- Project description — up to 550 characters
- Project proposal: objectives, state of the art, methods and work plan in up to 7,500 characters
- Cover letter with information on how your stay at the university will benefit the concrete goals of your research
- Two recommendation letters. At least one should be from an editor, fellow journalist, or publisher
Complete all the documents in English, combine into a single PDF and name in Latin.
By 15 January, apply via IWM's online portal.
You will find out if you are one of the winners in the spring of 2025.
- In this competition, "cultural" has a broad meaning and covers a wide spectrum of intellectual and artistic spheres.
- This competition is also open to journalists from the EU, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Share the English version of this contest with your friends from these countries.
- Unfortunately, the organisers will not provide applicants individual feedback on their applications.