The Doctoral Fellows Program is designed to provide the highest research and teaching qualifications to individuals from Georgia and Kyrgyzstan who are positioned to become leading scholars in select fields of social work, public health, education, and psychology.
The awards will support flexible doctoral programs that enable fellows to study and conduct research both abroad and at home, thereby maintaining professional engagement with their home institutions while completing the degree.
Open Society Foundations Scholarship Programs traditionally have supported master’s degree study in the social sciences and humanities for citizens of the former Soviet-bloc countries. For years, much of the higher education reform and leading scholarship in this region has been accomplished by these scholars returning home with master’s-level credentials. Today, building local capacity in academia requires increasingly more sophisticated scholarship mechanisms, such as doctoral degree awards and faculty development fellowships. With limited local resources available to meet the demands for quality higher education in emerging global knowledge centers, international scholarships continue to be an essential tool in our work.
The deadline for applications for the 2012-13 academic year has passed. Please check back again in fall 2012 for the next call for applications.
For further details, please contact the appropriate local coordinator in your home country:
Georgia
Centre for International Education
Open Society Georgia Foundation
10, Chovelidze Street
0108 Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel: (+995 32)252615, 250463
Fax: (+995 32) 252615
Contact person:
Nino Chinchaladze: nino@osgf.ge
Kyrgyzstan
Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan
55A Logvinenko Street
Bishkek
720040
Kyrgyzstan
Tel: +996 312 663475 ext. 112
Fax: +996 312 663448
Contact person:
Rakia Rustemova: rakia@soros.kg