Scholars Without Borders Opportunities

The Translating Ukraine Summer Institute will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, 6-17 July 2026. Supported by academic partners in Canada, the US, the UK, and Poland, this summer institute will focus on training emerging and mid-career translators in the field of literary and academic translation. 20 participants will be accepted. This opportunity is open to both beginners or mid-career professionals as well as students enrolled in Ukrainian language courses and translation programs at accredited universities and participating institutions. 

The Yale Baltic Studies Program invites applications for a post-doctoral associate position of four to five months during the 2026-27 academic year. Researchers from Lithuanian universities in the following fields are encouraged to apply: law, economics, business and finance, environmental policy, political science, international relations, and history. The successful candidate is expected to be in residence in New Haven, Connecticut for the duration of the appointment and participate actively in program activities.

The European New School of Digital Studies offers a Postdoc Fellowship (for applicants who received their PhD within the past 4 years) and a Visiting Professor Fellowship (4+ years since receiving PhD). Successful applicants will receive a full grant to support a research stay at ENS for a period of two to six months.

The Jan Patočka Fellowship Program aims to foster research inspired by Jan Patočka’s legacy and his intellectual endeavor to rethink Europe under post-European paradigms. Scholars working on the manifold philosophical, societal, economic, geopolitical, and historical dimensions of this challenging topic (in all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences) are welcome to apply.

NOTE: Candidates for the Józef Tischner Junior Visiting Fellowship must be Polish citizens or permanently reside in Poland. The call for applications is open to scholars in all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences; a thematic relation of the proposed project to one of the Institute’s research fields is strongly encouraged.

Jerzy Giedroyc Fellowships are designated for scholars working on projects related to Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Belarusian, and Polish-Lithuanian relations and related questions of history, politics, and literature OR the legacy of Giedroyc (and/or the journal and publishing house Kultura). Selected candidates will spend four consecutive months pursuing their research projects at the IWM in Vienna between September 2026 and June 2027.

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida invites applications for the position of Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor in Russian Language and Culture, to begin August 15, 2026. This is a full-time, renewable, nine-month, non-tenure accruing position.

The Global Methane Politics project s a five-year European Research Council-funded project led by Professor Jan Selby in the School of Politics and International Studies. The University of Leeds is currently accepting applications for three research fellows to join the project for three years from September 2026, focusing respectively on livestock, oil and gas, and solid waste. For each of these fellowships, the core objectives will be to generate original research findings on their specific sector. The position includes access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts, travel schemes, and a salary of £48,822 per year.

Hosted by the University of Vienna’s Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), this two-day international conference aims to bring together scholars from the fields of Soviet/post-Soviet history and Jewish studies. Conference organizers welcome individual paper submissions on the central themes that will be addressed over the course of the two-day program in Vienna. 

The Ute and György Széll International Scholarship supports outstanding international PhD students in the social sciences & humanities who wish to complete a six-month stay at a German university, research institute, foundation, or archive.

The Dieter Schumacher International PhD-Scholarship provides funding to outstanding PhD students in economics to conduct a 12- to 24-month research stay at a German university or research institute. 

The Mieroszewski Center's Open Competition Grant Program supports projects that promote the history, culture and heritage of the peoples of Eastern Europe. Applications are open to the public, academic and educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, foundations, local governments and individuals. Grant funds can be used to implement a variety of cultural, educational and research projects, including the organization of conferences, workshops, cultural meetings, exhibitions, as well as publishing projects. Funding can cover up to 80% of a project's budget, with no minimum or maximum amount specified.

Copernicus Hamburg awards fellowships to Eastern and Central European, North African and Central Asian master's students every semester. The fellowships last about 6 months. Candidates from the following disciplines are eligible: legal sciences, political science/international relations, business/economics, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, computer science, medicine, architecture. 

The Swedish Society for Medical Research (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning) offers scholarships to Ukrainian doctoral and postdoctoral students who came to Sweden after 2022. Scholarships are granted for a period of 3-12 months with the possibility of extension. Successful applicants must be able to secure a research position at a Swedish university or research institute for the duration of the funding period.

The Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies is accepting applications for the Neporany Doctoral Fellowship to support doctoral students whose research focuses on Ukrainian politics, economics, or a related field. Preference is given to students completing their dissertations at Canadian universities and Canadian citizens and residents. 

The duration of the fellowship is one academic year, with grant awards ranging from $5,000 CAD to $20,000 CAD. 

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is accepting proposals from students and scholars from universities in Ukraine (particularly Chernivtsi National University) for junior and senior research grants, fellowships, scholarly publications, and conferences.

The primary purpose of the research grants awarded by CIUS is to encourage and support research on Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Please specify the goal of the research that you are asking CIUS to support.

The research grants are designated for independent research that is conceived and carried out by scholars, and are first and foremost designed to meet the needs of career scholars at universities or other post-secondary institutions, as well as independent scholars. They are not offered to support research towards a degree or course requirement; neither are research grants offered as publication support, or to subsidize publication costs. CIUS research grants are intended to defray actual direct costs attributable to a project, not for overhead costs or for personal income.

The Neporany Doctoral Fellowship, offered by the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies (Osyp and Josaphat Neporany Educational Fund), will be awarded in 2026-2027 to one or more doctoral students specializing on Ukraine in political science, economics, and related fields (social sciences and political, economic, and social history). Preference will be given to students completing their dissertations as well as to students at Canadian universities or Canadian citizens and residents.

The amount of the award can range from C$5,000 to C$20,000. The Neporany Fellowship may be held in conjunction with other awards but will be withdrawn or reduced if the total amount awarded, including this fellowship, exceeds C$35,000.

The duration of the fellowship will be one academic year.

The 2026 SRLT program is designed to address the professional interests and needs of US teachers of Russian at the K-12 and college levels. Fifteen teachers will receive funding to participate in the program, which will take place at Al Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) from June 25-July 26, 2026.

The Newton International Fellowship program is aimed at early-career researchers based outside the UK who want to develop an independent research career by conducting research in the UK. Applicants must hold (or be about to complete) a PhD and have no more than about five years’ postdoctoral experience. The fellowship provides up to £280,000 over two years to cover salary (as defined by the UK host), research expenses, relocation/visa costs, and associated costs for dependents.