Fellowship

About: Think Visegrad is a think tank plat­form for struc­tured dia­logue on issues of strate­gic regional impor­tance. The plat­form aims to ana­lyze key issues for the Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), and pro­vides rec­om­men­da­tions to the gov­ern­ments of Visegrad Group (V4) coun­tries, the annual pres­i­den­cies of the Group, and the International Visegrad Fund. In addi­tion, Think Visegrad pro­vides vis­it­ing fel­low­ships to non-Visegrad expert fel­lows. Think Visegrad was estab­lished in 2012 by eight V4 think tanks with coor­di­nat­ing abil­i­ties. This so-called core net­work, how­ever, remains open to coop­er­a­tion with other think-tanks from all V4 coun­tries. Think Visegrad is funded by the International Visegrad Fund.

 

Eight vis­it­ing fel­low­ships will be avail­able for Summer/Autumn/Winter of 2024. Each of the core net­work think tanks (see list below) will host one non-V4 expert fel­low. Each selected vis­it­ing fel­low will have the oppor­tu­nity to take part in the institute’s activ­i­ties for a period of up to eight weeks. During this period, each fel­low will be expected to develop a pol­icy paper and deliver one pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tion on a pre-agreed topic. A lump sum of €3,000 will be given to each selected vis­it­ing fel­low to cover all nec­es­sary costs and expen­di­tures related to his or her stay at the host­ing insti­tute (e.g. lodg­ing and local trans­port). Each fel­low will also be respon­si­ble for pay­ing all taxes and related fees, includ­ing health and social insur­ance, from this amount. Think Visegrad—V4 Think Tank Platform will cover the cost of international travel to the host­ing insti­tute for the vis­it­ing fellow up to the amount of €500.

 

Topics: Fellowships are avail­able in all areas of research in polit­i­cal sci­ence, inter­na­tional rela­tions and eco­nom­ics. Chosen top­ics should com­ple­ment the research focus of the host­ing insti­tute, and there­fore the appli­cants are highly rec­om­mended to check the institute’s web­site before sub­mit­ting an application.

 

Duration: The dura­tion of fel­low­ships varies from 6 to 8 weeks at least 4 (minimum) of which in-person at the hosting institution (based on agree­ment with the host­ing institute).

 

 

Hosting insti­tutes:

Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID) – Hungary

Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) – Poland

EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy – Czechia

Globsec Policy Institute (GPI) – Slovakia

Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA) – Hungary

Institute of International Relations (IIR) – Czechia

The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) – Poland

Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA) – Slovakia

 

Eligibility: Expert fel­lows from non-Visegrad coun­tries with at least five years’ experience in their field of research are eli­gi­ble. Preference will be given to appli­cants who have already made a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion in their field. Fellows who already conducted the Think Visegrad Fellowship in the past are not allowed to participate again and their applications will be automatically dismissed.

 

 

Deadline: Application dossiers con­sist­ing of the appli­ca­tion from, struc­tured CV (includ­ing the list of pub­li­ca­tions) and a moti­va­tion let­ter (max­i­mum 300 words) are to be sub­mit­ted to thinktank@sfpa.sk by May 31, 2024.

Selected appli­cants:

Fellowship 2024

Djego ABEDINAJ (Albania) – Globsec Policy Institute

 

Rachel HERRING (United Kindgom) – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Alina HRYTSENKO (Ukraine) – Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

 

Marko LONČAR (Bosnia and Herzegovina) –  Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association

 

Marija MIRCHEVSKA (North Macedonia) – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Alejandro ESTESO PÉREZ (Spain) – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Rahim RAHIMOV (Azerbaijan) – Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA)

 

Ingrid RÍOS RIVERA (Ecuador) – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

Fellowship 2023

Elena POLO – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

Tatiana COJOCARI – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Alina BOIKO – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Dea ELMASLLARI – GLOBSEC Policy Institute

 

Ayhan SATIJI – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

David CADIER – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Loren KOCOLLARI – The Polish Institute of International Affairs  (PISM)

 

Taras PRODANIUK – The Polish Institute of International Affairs  (PISM)

 

Luka NIKOLIĆ – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

Fellowship 2022

Angana GUHA ROY – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

Khrystyna SEMERYN – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Dario ČEPO – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Yuliia FETKO – GLOBSEC Policy Institute

 

Lilei SONG – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

Ivan LIDAREV – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Diana CUCOS – The Polish Institute of International Affairs  (PISM)

 

Nirvana DELIU – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

Fellowship 2021 (update 20.10.2021)

Irakli SIRBILADZE – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

Valeriu PASA – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Mare USHKOVSKA – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Alex HARDY – GLOBSEC Policy Institute

 

Elkhan NURIYEV – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

Dorina BALTAG – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Anatoliy KLYUCHKOVYCH – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

Fellowship 2020 (update 16.9.2020)

Nino GOZALISHVILI – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

Vasil NAVUMAU – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Nicholas NELSON – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Grégoire ROOS – GLOBSEC Policy Institute

 

Dmytro TUZHANSKYI – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

Dženeta KARABEGOVIĆ – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Aliaksei PATONIA – The Polish Institute of International Affairs  (PISM)

 

Giorgi MUKHIGULISHVILI – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

Fellowship 2019 (update 4.6.2019)

Hanna Shelest – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

James Hoobler – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) (conducted at the Institute for Central Europe – IEŚ)

 

Linda Zeilina – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Rufin Zamfir – GLOBSEC Policy Institute

 

Takeshi Miyai – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

Eoin Micheál McNamara – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Katsiaryna Shmatsina – The Polish Institute of International Affairs  (PISM)

 

Federica Cristani – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

 

Fellowship 2018 (update 12.4.2018)

Valeriy Semikashev – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

Anke Schmidt-Felzmann – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Gentiola Madhi – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Sebastian Schäffer – GLOBSEC Policy Institute

 

Muhammad Mohiuddin – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

Ruth Ferrero-Turrión – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Alex Nice – The Polish Institute of International Affairs  (PISM)

 

Mihai Mogildea – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

 

Fellowship 2017

Hennadiy Maksak – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

 

Piotr Rudkouski – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

 

Nicolas Bouchet – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

 

Andrei Yeliseyeu – GLOBSEC Policy Institute (former CEPI)

 

Ruben Elamiryan – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

 

Michael Eric Lambert – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

 

Urban Jakša – The Polish Institute of International Relations  (PISM)

 

Sergiy Gerasymchuk – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

 

Fellowship 2016

Olga ZELINSKA – Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID)

Oana POPESCU – Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

Tija MEMISEVIC – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy

Marta CHURELLA – GLOBSEC Policy Institute (former CEPI)

Yuri TSARIK – Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT)

Marko LOVEC – Institute of International Relations (IIR)

Patrick McGRATH – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

Yaroslav KIT – The Society of the Institute of East-Central Europe  (TIESW)

Fellowship 2015

Andrii Chubyk (Ukraine) – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Energy efficiency – practical experience from V4 for Ukraine

Alena Kudzko (Belarus) – Central European Policy Institute
Belarus: country’s repeated attempt to rapproch with the West
FINAL PAPER: Belarus: country’s repeated attempt to rapproch with the West

Nikola Trendov (Macedonia) – Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The impacts of CAP from economic aspect within the Visegrad Countries
FINAL PAPER: CAP Performances of the Visegrad Countries After Ancension to European Union

Jan Ruzicka (United Kingdom)  – Institute of International Relations
Security Reassurance: The Visegrad Four and NATO

Jurij Fedoryk (Ukraine) – Institute of East-Central Europe
The influence of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on security of Visegrad Group

Yuriy Matsiyevsky (Ukraine) – Centre for Eastern Studies
How can Ukraine break out of hybridity and start moving forward

Marko Stoic (Serbia) – EUROPEUM
EU enlargement to the Western Balkans: Out of sight, out of mind?

Altin Idrizi (Albania) – CEID
Fellowship cancelled

Fellowship 2014

Beka Chedia (Georgia) / Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Post-Soviet Transformation of the Political System (the Case of Georgia) in the Context of the Development of the EU Eastern Partnership Program

Vladimir Djordjevic (Serbia, Czech Republic)- Central European Policy Institute
Western Balkans in Transition towards EU: The Case of Serbia
FINAL PAPER: Business deals and western fears

Andrew Farkas (United States) – Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy/University of Pécs
Silk Roads” from China to Europe:  Hungary’s Place on Eurasian Rail Land Bridges?

Rusudan Jamaspishvili (Georgia) – Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The Caucasus – Highly ExplosiveRegion and Challenge for Europe

Anes Makul (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – Institute of International Relations
Can the European Public Block the Enlargement to the Western Balkans?

Olesya Malyugina (Russia) – Institute of East-Central Europe
Migration from Russia to Poland: challenges and possibilities

Octavian Milewski (Romania and Moldova) – Centre for Eastern Studies
V4+ Platform and the Baltic – Black Sea Arch: Optimizing Romania’s Central East European Regional Stance

Svetlana Pinzari (Moldova) – EUROPEUM
The Russian Factor in the Foreign Policy of the Visegrad Four States

Fellowship 2012/2013

Natalia Shapovalova (Ukraine, UK, Spain) – Institute of East-Central Europe, Poland
For visa-free Europe: advocacy strategies and influence of non-state actors on EU policy of visa liberalisation with EU’s Eastern neighbours.

Rick Fawn (UK) – EUROPEUM – Institute for European Policy, Prague
Positive decision-making lessons from Visegrad

Vitalyi Shpak (Ukraine) – Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Budapest
European Union-Ukraine relationship

Paul Qian LIU (China) – Institute of International Relations, Prague
The Correlation between Political Culture and Political Development – Case Studies on Czech Political Culture and its Role in the Period of Transition (1989-2009)

Volkan Sezgin (Turkey) – Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
The observance of Maastricht Criteria in Visegrad Group countries and in Turkey in the context of the global financial crisis.

Christian Schweiger (Germany, UK) – Central European Policy Institute – SAC, Bratislava
The Visegrad-4 countries in the EU’s emerging multiple cores
FINAL PAPER: Insiders vs outsiders: The V4 in a changing EU

Armen Grigoryan (Armenia) – Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava
The way towards EU Association for Armenia, Georgia and Moldova

Ešref-Kenan Rašidagić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – University of Pecs, Pecs
Background for the EU’s, Russia’s and Turkey’s involvement in the Western Balkan

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