As part of the EU’s response to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, a dedicated fellowship scheme ―MSCA4Ukraine―was established to provide support to displaced researchers from Ukraine.
MSCA4Ukraine: Information & Resources for Researchers from Ukraine
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The H-Gaza project aims to safeguard and reconnect Gaza’s present and future research and innovation capacity by mapping existing regional and local support initiatives, stakeholders, and potential beneficiaries (Palestinian researchers in and from Gaza); piloting a Virtual Research Collaboration Hub for 75 researchers in or from Gaza; and conducting a scenario-based feasibility assessment to guide the design of a larger intervention.
Call for applications (deadline: 31 July 2026): H-Gaza’s Virtual Research Collaboration Hub
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The Students at Risk Fund is intended to support students who can prove that they are at risk of being formally or de facto denied the right to education at their university due to their ethnic, sexual, gender, or religious identity or their political or civic engagement, in continuing and completing their studies in Austria.
Students at Risk Fund (Austria)
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The Gerda Henkel Foundation supports scholars in the event of acute crisis to reorient themselves scientifically outside their home countries. Since 2023, the Foundation has been offering a geographically open scholarship programme for threatened and refugee scholars from crisis areas.
Gerda Henkel Foundation
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The objective of PFs is to support researchers’ careers and foster excellence in research. The Postdoctoral Fellowships action targets researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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The Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) - established by the U.S. Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Finnish National Agency for Education - programme offers scholars threatened or persecuted in their home country the chance to continue their work in a safe environment.
Finnish National Agency for Education
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Scholars at Risk works to protect threatened scholars and promote academic freedom around the world. Learn more by clicking on the above secretariat updates, network events, and monitoring reports
Scholars at Risk Network
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The Philipp Schwartz Initiative enables universities and research institutions in Germany to host researchers at risk on the basis of a full fellowship. Accordingly, host institutions receive funding which is composed of two components: Fellowship amount and Allowance for host institution
Humboldt Fondation
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