Scholarship details
Annually, Rotary provides fully-funded awards to dedicated leaders worldwide to pursue their master’s degrees focusing on peace. Through global network opportunities, academic training and practice the Rotary Peace Programs develop the peace developments and capacity to become an effective catalyst for peace. The Peace Fellowship will be covering a fully-funded program for successful international master’s degree students.
About the Fellowship
The Rotary Peace Fellowship is intended for leaders who can demonstrate their experience in peace and development in their home country. The rotary fellows are committed to international services, communities, and the pursuit of peaceful development. Annually, Rotary Foundation awards 50 fellowships for master’s degrees and 40 certificates to the premier partner universities.
Since the program started in 2002, the Rotary Peace Places have prepared in excess of 1,600 colleagues who presently work in more than 140 nations. Many graduated fellows serve as leaders in education, NGOs, governments, research institutions, law enforcement agencies, peacemaking, and international organizations like World Bank and United Nations.
Which Program fits the applicants?
- Master’s Degree Program
Acknowledged candidates concentrate on peace and improvement issues with research-informed instructing and a different student body. The projects last 15 to two years and incorporate a multi-month field study, which members plan themselves. - Professional Development Certificates
During the one-year mixed learning program, peace and advancement experts with assorted foundations gain reasonable abilities to advance peace inside their networks and across the globe. The fellows complete field studies and plan and do a social change drive. This program is planned for working experts. The fellows procure a post-graduate recognition upon completing the program.
Scholarship Provider: Rotary Foundation
About the Provider
Rotary is a worldwide organization of 1.4 million neighbors, companions, pioneers, and issue solvers who see an existence where individuals join together and make a move to make an enduring change – across the globe, in our networks, and in ourselves
Tackling genuine issues takes genuine responsibility and vision. For over 110 years, Rotary’s kin of activity has utilized their enthusiasm, energy, and insight to make a move on reasonable ventures. From proficiency and peace to water and well-being, they are continuously attempting to better our reality, and they stay focused on the end.
The Rotary Foundation believes that they have a shared responsibility to take action on the world’s issues. The Rotary Clubs work together tot he following:
- Fight disease
- Promote World Peace
- Providing sanitation, water, and hygiene
- Save children and mothers
- Supporting the education
- Grow local economies
- Protecting the Environments
Their mission is to provide services that can promote integrity, support the communities, and advance the world’s understanding, peace, and goodwill to the fellowship community leaders, professionals, and businesses. They team up with local area leaders who need to get to deal with projects that have a genuine, enduring effect on individuals’ lives.
Together, they apply their expert experience and individual obligation to handle the networks’ most diligent issues, tracking down new, viable ways of upgrading well-being, and security, and thriving across the globe.
Scholarship Summary
- Academic Year: 2024-2025
- Degree Level: Master’s Degree
- Field: Any eligible fields which center the area of Peace.
- Number of Awards: NA
- Duration: NA
- Scholarship Awards: Fully-funded
- Scholarship Country: United States
- Renewable: Yes
- Offered Annually: Yes
Master’s Degree Fellowship
The ideal candidate is areas of strength scholastically, has a four-year certification in a connected field, and finds work insight as one and improvement. The foundation is searching for early-profession candidates who exhibit a guarantee to peace and compromise, can embrace broad perusing and research, and can take part effectively inside a different companion of students.
The successful applicants have a record of earlier accomplishments in peacebuilding as well as the potential for future development and effect as leaders in the field coming about because of their support in the fellowship. After the program, candidates ought to share their own work and experience, keeping in contact with peaceful colleagues in their district and keeping up areas of strength for Rotary individuals.
Eligibility
The master’s degree students must meet the following:
- Must have good communication skills in oral and written English.
- Must be holding a bachelor’s degree.
- Potential leadership skills
- Have serious areas of strength for a diverse understanding and peace as appeared through expert and academic accomplishments and individual or local area administration.
- At least three years of experience in relevant areas of peace or development.
- Candidates should have a gap of no less than three years between the finishing of their latest academic certificate program (undergrad or advanced education) and their expected beginning date for the fellowship. Candidates at present signed up for an undergrad or graduate program are not qualified to apply.
- People with disabilities or from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
- Rotary club members, employees of the Rotary entity, or Rotary International are not eligible to apply for the fellowship program.
Keep in mind that successful applicants may not be able to study in their home countries.
Application Process
The Rotary Foundation is now accepting applicants for the academic year 2024-2025. It is important to follow the application guideline posted on the foundation’s official website. Complete the application form provided at the application portal and the required materials to be able to be considered for the fellowship.
Fellowship Components
- For academic training, the candidates will learn research-based approaches and theories to peace and development.
- Applied field experience that will build more practical skills and self-designed.
- Networking expands the candidate’s global networks in the academic, Rotary members, and peace workers.
- Developing the candidate’s professional skills.
Awards
The Fellowship Program will be covering the successful fellows:
- Tuition fee
- Other related fees
- Accommodation
- Roundtrip Travel Expenses
- Internships
- Field study expenses
Application Deadline
The deadline to complete and submit the application is until May 15, 2023.
