Apply for Berlin Fellowship Program

In 2024, the Berlin Fellowship will focus on Populism, Nationalism, and the New Right in Germany’s historical context, while exploring possibilities for resistance and solidarity.

As a focal point of German colonialism, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, and the Cold War, Berlin carries enormous historical significance. It also continues to be a pivotal point for contemporary social justice struggles. The German capital hence offers a unique landscape to bridge past and present and to learn for the future.

What to Expect?

• Around 20 Fellows from different countries will gather in Berlin for an intensive three-week educational program. Past Fellows have described it as a challenging and rewarding journey of personal and collective growth, meaningful connections, and collaboration across difference.
• The daily program holds space for guest lectures and workshops, site visits to memorials and museums, group discussions, reflections, and community building – as well as what each individual Fellow brings. You will get the opportunity to learn from eyewitnesses, alumni, activists, political decision-makers, scholars, and your peers in order to develop your own Action Project. The three-week program is a full-time commitment with breaks on the weekends.
• After the in-person program, you will be assisted by Humanity in Action’s staff and quarterly online community gatherings to help you finalize your Action Project and give back to your community.

The Structure

• The International Program | June 3 and 4, 2024 (virtual)
  • They will virtually join the entire international 2024 Human in Action cohort of about 100 Fellows to get to know Humanity in Action and your whole cohort.
• Travel to Berlin | June 5, 2024
• The Berlin Fellowship | June 6 – 21, 2024 (in-person in Berlin, Germany)
  • About 20 Fellows will gather in Berlin for a daily full-time program, to learn from local experts, community members, and each other. Weekends are free.
• Action Projects and Community Support Hubs | September 2024 – May 2025 (virtual)
  • From September 2024 to May 2025, Fellows work on their independent Action Project. They meet virtually for the Community Support Hubs, an online program designed assist Fellows implement their projects and to keep in touch with the community.
  • For 11 months following their time in Berlin, Fellows work on their Action Project: an independent social justice venture in their own communities. Action Projects are as diverse as Humanity in Action Fellows. Fellows apply their new knowledge and perspectives to the communities they impact—in whatever format they find meaningful. Past Action Projects have been documentaries, arts festivals, and new organizations that serve a public good. Planning for the Action Project begins in Berlin.

Eligibility Criteria

• Apply from Europe
  • You speak English fluently (all programs are conducted in English)
  • You must fit one of the below:
    • You are a current student in a college or university located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland.
    • You graduated no longer than two years ago from a college or university in any of the above mentioned countries.
    • You grew up in or are a citizen or resident of any of the above-mentioned countries and study at or recently graduated from a college or university in any country of the world.
• Apply from the USA
  • Applicants to the Humanity in Action Fellowship must be one of the following:
    • currently enrolled undergraduate students from the US or at US-based colleges and universities (sophomores, juniors, and seniors); or
    • recent graduates (for the 2024 Fellowship, they define recent graduates as individuals from the undergraduate or graduate classes of 2022 and 2023. For undergraduates, they define recent graduates as individuals who attended accredited, four-year undergraduate colleges or universities in the United States, having graduated in spring 2022 or later); or
    • currently enrolled, second-year community college students who plan to continue their secondary education; or
    • currently enrolled Masters and PhD students at US-based universities.

For more information, visit Humanity in Action.