JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Jointly organized by the United Nations University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is designed to provide promising, highly qualified, young researchers with the opportunity to conduct advanced research relevant to the main thematic focus areas of the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS, Tokyo) and UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR, Tokyo), in co-operation with host researchers at Japanese universities and research institutions.
This fellowship is aimed at candidates who have completed their PhD degrees in the past six years and also have professional and/or research experience. Fellowships are awarded for a period of 24 months. Applicants must hold a doctoral degree (received on or after 2 April 2009) when the fellowship begins, or be scheduled to receive a doctoral degree before the fellowship begins.
The following research projects at UNU-IAS and UNU-CPR are accepting applications for JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellows:
* Ecosystem Services Assessment (UNU-IAS)
* Governance for Sustainable Development (UNU-IAS)
* Water and Urban Initiative (UNU-IAS)
* Satoyama Initiative (UNU-IAS)
* Peace and Security Policies at the UN (UNU-CPR)
* Post-2015 UN Development Framework (UNU-CPR)
For more information, please see the fellowship website.
