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  Applications are currently ongoing for the 2025 Open Society Fellowship program designed to support heterodox thinkers and practitioners across the globe.
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Fellows for the 2025 Open Society Fellowship Program will be selected exclusively from seven cities around the world dubbed “home to a dynamic circle of public intellectuals and cultural producers engaged in high-level critical debate.” It is a program aimed at elevating “new voices to take part in global conversations on the most pressing issues of our time – from human rights and social justice to climate change and inequality—and provide established public intellectuals new audiences for their work.”
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For each of the seven cities earmarked for the program, four fellowships will be awarded.

The seven cities include:

  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
  • Taipei, Taiwan
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Beirut, Lebanon

To be considered eligible for the program:

  • Candidates may be academics, playwrights, journalists, think-tank experts, poets, documentarians, novelists, cultural impresarios, architects, visual artists, urban planners, or practitioners in related fields.
  • The candidate must be an original and contrarian intellect working on projects that strongly concern society, such as equality, justice, rights, and climate, but beyond the bounds of current thinking.
  • The candidate’s focus project must help us see the world in complex ways.

Features of the projects include:

  • Fellows will receive a living stipend of $100,000 for one year and also $20,000 for expenses related to their projects and full-time work on their fellowship.
  • Additionally, fellows will be supported to attend events that are related to the fellowship.
  • The fellowship is a one-year program, but fellows are allowed to request an extension without further compensation for up to a year.
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Some of the application documents include:

  • A CV
  • A cover letter
  • A three-page project description
  • A draft project budget
The deadline for applications is December 16, 2024. Click HERE to apply.
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This article was first published on 3rd December 2024

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