The IWM offers a place for research and scholarly debate across borders and disciplines. Its various fellowship programs are thus a fundamental part of the Institute’s work. Each year approximately fifty Visiting Fellows, Junior Visiting Fellows and Guests – mainly from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from North America – are awarded fellowships to pursue their individual research projects while working in residence at the IWM as members of an international and multidisciplinary academic community. The IWM strives to provide conditions that allow the fellows to make significant progress in their research and to profit from the intellectual stimulation of the Institute’s seminars, lectures and other events. Since its inception in 1982, the IWM has hosted nearly 1000 scholars, journalists and translators.

IWM Fellowship Programs

The IWM currently hosts fellows within the following programs:

• Visiting Fellowships and Junior Visiting Fellowships in cooperation with selected universities

• Boston University Vienna Program in cooperation with Boston University

• EURIAS Fellowships, a joint initiative of 16 European Institutes for Advanced Study

• Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists

• Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators

• Robert Bosch Fellowships

• Józef Tischner Fellowships for Polish and Polish-American Researchers

• The Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bronislaw Geremek Fellowships

• Tsvetan Stoyanov Fellowships for Bulgarian Scholars

• CEU Junior Visiting Fellowships

• Junior Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from Ukraine in cooperation with the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv (Ukraine)

• Alexander Herzen Fellowships supported by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation