The GIAS Fellowship is the cornerstone of our intellectual ecosystem. Our competitive, peer-reviewed program is open to scholars in all disciplines whose research resonates with the Institute’s mission.
Fellowship Benefits:
- Prestigious residency (1 semester to 2 years)
- Competitive stipend and full accommodation assistance
- Dedicated workspace and research infrastructure
- Curated mentorship and research workshops
- Collaborative opportunities with UN institutions and Geneva-based think tanks
- Institutional support for grant development and open-access publishing
- Invitation to participate in collective research projects and co-authored monographs
Applications are assessed on the basis of scholarly excellence, methodological originality, and potential to impact wider discourses in policy or public reasoning.
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Academic Life
Academic culture at GIAS is dialogical, cosmopolitan, and critically engaged. Activities include:
- Research seminars led by fellows and invited global scholars
- Cross-thematic colloquia bridging fields such as law and neuroethics, or AI and global inequality
- Working groups on emergent themes like digital constitutionalism, climate litigation, and feminist technoscience
- Joint initiatives with global partners including universities, policy labs, and civil society groups
GIAS promotes knowledge pluralism through multilingual research dissemination, archival initiatives in global south epistemologies, and experimental pedagogy. Visiting Professorships and Artist-in-Residence programs further diversify the discursive space.