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Before you begin your application, please be sure that you are eligible to apply. Scroll down for detailed information on what criteria we ask applicants to meet. Applications received from individuals who are not eligible will not be considered.

2018 Berlin Fellows

Eligibility Requirements for Applicants from Germany and German applicants studying abroad

General requirements

Applicants to the Humanity in Action Fellowship must be one of the following:

  • currently enrolled  students from Germany or at Germany-based universities; or
  • recent graduates (for the 2022 Fellowship, we define recent graduates as individuals who graduated 2019, 2020 and 2021).
  • Currently enrolled graduate students and PhD students are also eligible to apply.
  • If your path has been non-linear, please check in with us to find out about your eligibility.

If you are a German citizen studying at a foreign university, you are eligible to apply to the Humanity in Action Fellowship through Germany. If you are a German student studying at a university in other Humanity in Action countries, you may also be eligible to apply through the Humanity in Action offices in those countries. Please contact those offices directly to confirm your eligibility.

If you are a non-German citizen studying at a university in Germany, you are eligible to apply to the Humanity in Action Fellowship through the German office if you have been living in Germany for at least two years and speak German fluently.

If you are a student or recent graduate from and/or based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Greece, Poland, The Netherlands, the United States or Ukraine, you are eligible to apply through their application process. If you are unsure through which country’s application you should be applying, please contact germany@humanityinaction.org.

If you came to Germany as a refugee, please contact our Berlin office.

Applicants may apply to the various Humanity in Action Fellowship programs through a single application and may indicate preference for one of more programs. However, they cannot choose their city of participation


Costs and Further Information

The participation in our Fellowship programs is free of charge.

More questions? Please reference our FAQs page for more information. If in doubt, please contact our office in Berlin.

Fellowship & Application Resources