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UNESCO Fellowship Programs

🏛 UNESCO 📍 Worldwide 📅 2026

About this opportunity

Fully funded fellowships offered by UNESCO for students, PhD candidates, early-career professionals, and project initiators to study, research, and launch innovative projects across UNESCO’s focus areas.

Benefits & funding

Full sponsorship, living stipends, travel costs, and potential research grants

Eligibility

Applicants include students, professionals, early-career researchers, and postdoctoral fellows.

How to apply

Apply for an available UNESCO fellowship program via the official UNESCO fellowships page

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Key facts

TypeFellowship

FundingFully funded

OrganiserUNESCO

LocationWorldwide

Study level Bachelor / Undergraduate, Master / Graduate, PhD / Doctoral, Postdoc, Early-career professional

Open toOpen to applicants worldwide; eligible countries span all countries

Open to all subjects

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