Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme

Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the Tübingen College of Fellows (CoF), and the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz (ZuKo) invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA, to apply for the Baden-Württemberg Early Career Rescue Fellowships 2026-2028 (Ref. No. 2025/229).

Funded by the State of Baden-Württemberg, we are offering:

The fellowships are available to researchers from all over the world and from any discipline represented at one of the three universities with a minimum of one year and a maximum of seven years of post-doctoral experience, who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. The aim is to provide time and space for their noexcellent research and open up international prospects for their future career. The programme offers a two-year research position at one of the three universities, preferred by the applicant, and local disciplinary cooperation, as well as support, resources, networks and exchange within the respective Institute for Advanced Studies with its international and interdisciplinary community of fellows.

For application please consult the Programme and Application Manual and then apply on the Application Form.

Deadline: 9 January 2026, 11 AM (CET)!

For further questions please contact one of the participating Institutes for Advanced Studies:

Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz: Mihaela Mihaylova, zuko-applicationuni-konstanz [dot] de (zuko-application[at]uni-konstanz[dot]de)
FRIAS, University of Freiburg: Annette Doll, zuko-applicationuni-konstanz [dot] de (fellowships[at]frias[dot]uni-freiburg[dot]de)
Tübinger College of Fellows, University of Tübingen: Niels Weidtmann, infocof [dot] uni-tuebingen [dot] de (info[at]cof[dot]uni-tuebingen[dot]de)