The IWM’s Visiting Fellows, Junior Visiting Fellows and Guests (currently about 40 each year) come mainly from Eastern and Western Europe and from the United States. Since its inception in 1982, the IWM has hosted more than 850 scholars, journalists and translators.
The IWM provides conditions that allow for Fellows to devote themselves entirely to their research projects, and additionally to profit from the intellectual stimulation of an international academic community.

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
  Call for applications 2010 - Deadline: February 28, 2010

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

• Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
  Call for applications 2010/2011 - Deadline: March 5, 2010

• 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.