The IWM’s mission is to offer a place for research and scholarly debate crossing 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 North Amercia – are awarded fellowships to pursue their individual research projects while working in residence at the iwm as members of an international and multidisciplinary scholarly 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 more than 900 scholars journalists and translators.

IWM Fellowship Programs

The IWM currently hosts fellows within the following programs:

• IWM Visiting Fellowships: 2009-2011
  in the topics of social solidarity, social inequality and social and political consequences of climate change
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Junior Visiting Fellowships in the Research Focuses United Europe – Divided Memory and Religion and Secularism
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Junior Visiting Fellowships in cooperation with selected universities

• Bronislaw Geremek Fellowships
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Robert Bosch Fellowships
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Józef Tischner Fellowships for Polish and Polish-American Researchers
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Alexander Herzen Fellowships supported by Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• Junior Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from Ukraine in cooperation with the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv (Ukraine)
  Currently, no applications are accepted

• EURIAS Fellowships, a joint initiative of 14 European Institutes for Advanced Study
  Open call for applications

• Further Visiting Fellows and Guests
  The IWM regularly hosts researchers who bring their own funds from other organizations. In addition, the Rector issues invitations for research stays.