Deadline: 1 September 2015
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) is announcing the Abe Fellowship Program Competition to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.
The fellows will be provided with a minimum of 3 and maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24-month period.
The program focuses on promoting a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving.
Program Objectives
- to foster high quality research in the social sciences and related disciplines
- to build new collaborative networks of researchers around the four thematic foci of the program
- to bring new data and new data resources to the attention of those researchers
- to obtain from them a commitment to a comparative or transnational line of inquiry.
Focus Areas
- Threats to Personal, Societal, and International Security.
- Growth and Sustainable Development
- Social, Scientific, and Cultural Trends and Transformations
- Governance, Empowerment, and Participation
Eligibility Criteria
- Citizens of the United States and Japan as well as nationals of other countries who can demonstrate strong and serious long-term affiliations with research communities in Japan or the United States are eligible to apply for the program.
- Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field, or have attained an equivalent level of professional experience at the time of application.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their applications online at the given website.
For more information, please visit The Abe Fellowship.
