Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowship 2028 in Germany (Fully Funded)

About the scholarship

The Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowship is awarded by the Georg Arnhold Program at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) in Brunswick, Germany. Each year it brings one Senior Fellow of Education for Sustainable Peace to the institute for a residency of six months (a shorter stay of at least three months can be arranged in exceptional cases). The 2028 fellowship is the currently open cycle, with a fellowship start of January 2028 at the earliest.

Fellows pursue a project on education for sustainable peace, with a particular emphasis on educational media and school curricula at the secondary-school level — from any region of the world. The programme explicitly welcomes both scholars and practitioners, including "pracademics" who combine research excellence with hands-on work at the grassroots.

Eligibility

• All nationalities are eligible; English is the working language.
• Scholars: outstanding researchers in the humanities, political and social sciences, or education, holding a PhD, with a project firmly located in peace education.
• Practitioners: distinguished peace-education practitioners with high-level international experience (for example in NGO management), demonstrating at least five years of advanced professional achievement.
• The project must focus on education for sustainable peace, particularly secondary-level educational media and curricula.
• Fellows must spend the fellowship period in residence at the GEI in Brunswick, take part in the institute's daily working life, co-design the annual Georg Arnhold Program conference with the coordinator, present at the GEI research colloquium, and publish the project outcomes within one year of the fellowship ending.

Benefits

• Monthly stipend of €3,300 for six months (minimum three months in exceptional cases).
• Return economy airfare to Germany.
• Use of the GEI's international library of educational media — textbooks, curricula and digital resources.
• Mentoring and discussions with GEI experts; opportunity to present at the GEI research colloquium.
• Access to "The Basement", the GEI's experimental digital media lab for games learning, VR, robotics and creative pedagogies.
• Administrative and publication support from the programme coordinators; open-access publication fees for direct project outputs covered where possible.
• A broad network of scholars and practitioners working in peace education.

Not covered: passport and visa costs, and health and liability insurance, remain the fellow's own responsibility.

Documents required

Stage 1 — everyone applies online: the online application form with project descriptions answering the guiding questions (objectives, research gap, methodological and theoretical framework, expected outcomes). Applicants are asked to consult the programme's AI-use policy before drafting.

Stage 2 — only the three shortlisted candidates are invited to submit by email:

1. Short CV
2. List of publications
3. Detailed project proposal of max. 25 pages, including references and evidence of impact in peace education (cited publications, project websites, success stories)

How to apply

1. Read the official call for applicationsConfirm the current cycle and the AI-use policy on the Georg Arnhold Program page of the GEI website.
2. Submit the online application formComplete it with your project descriptions before 2 November 2026 — the official call states no submission time or time zone, so do not leave it to the last minute.
3. Wait for shortlistingUp to 10 applications go forward to multi-stage pre-selection at the GEI; the top 3 candidates then submit the full Stage 2 proposal and attend an online interview with the Academic Advisory Board.
4. One fellow is selectedQuestions can be directed to Katharina Baier, Georg Arnhold Program, arnhold@gei.de.

FAQs

Verified 20 Oct 2026 via the official GEI call-for-applications PDF (2 Nov 2026 deadline; €3,300/month × 6 months; return airfare; eligibility and two-stage selection) + fundsforngos.org and opportunitiesforyouth.org (deadline corroboration). The stale "2026" aggregator listings were disregarded: the live cycle is the 2028 fellowship.