The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) is a fellowship funded by the German Bundestag and State Department. It annually provides 75 American and 75 German young professionals between the ages of 18½–24 the opportunity to spend one year in each other’s countries studying, interning, and living with hosts.
This fellowship is designed for graduate students or recent graduate students who have an interest in pursuing policy that is focused on legislation that affects the lives of women. If selected, fellows work forty (40) hours per week as a legislative assistant for a congressional office working on improving women’s rights and meet weekly to discuss the current issues affecting women. Fellows can come from nearly any discipline, but need to show a strong desire to work to improve the lives of women. The fellowship runs from January to July.
There are opportunities based on both New York and Washington, D.C. that include focuses on Asian American studies, global policy, marketing, publication, and more. These internships ask for between fourteen to eighteen hour per week and are open for fall and spring semesters as well as during the summer. These positions are filled on a rolling basis.
The types of internships vary and students apply for them individually, meaning that students can apply for the topics that truly interest them. Most internships are looking for students with strong technology and communication skills, but exact specifications, including major preference, will vary based on the positions that students are interested in.
This is a collection of fellowships offered by the Council on Foreign Relations that support professionals in the field gain higher understandings of foreign policy, either domestically or abroad. There are fellowships for simply policy-related work, in addition to programs to Canada, India, and Japan, as well as those specifically for military personnel or international relations professors. These fellowships are incredibly diverse in what they offer to the individuals who are accepted, which also varies on the fellowship itself.
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe seeks candidates for its Max Kampelman Fellowship program. The program is open to students with previous internship experience. Fellows work in political and military affairs, economic and environmental matters, or respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The Davis-Putter scholarship is a need-based grant given to students who are able to do academic work at the college level or are enrolled in a trade or technical program and are actively working for peace and justice.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of International Affairs (IA) seeks motivated students and recent graduates to take on today’s pressing climate challenges through a full-time fellowship with its DOE Science, Technology, and Policy Program
This fellowship program is focused on the current state of the political economy and how to use that information to learn from and conduct research in the field of economics. All programming is conducted virtually and includes online reading group sessions and discussions forums that allow for fellows to participate in conversations related to readings, podcasts, and videos from the Austrian, Bloomington, and Virginia schools of political economy. This program also functions as a networking opportunity to meet current researchers and professors who are in the center of this field’s current research.
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program seeks to attract outstanding individuals who want to work on the front lines of pressing global challenges – poverty, hunger, injustice, disease, environmental degradation, climate change, conflict and violent extremism – through the US Agency for International Development Foreign Service.
Native speakers of critical languages for America’s security interest are trained to be affective communicators and strong candidate for a career in government.