Fellowships & Grants

Graduate Women International (GWI) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2025 round of International Fellowships. These prestigious fellowships aim to support women scholars from around the globe in their pursuit of higher education and research and empower the next generation of female leaders and change-makers. This year, we invite applications from women pursuing postgraduate studies who are currently enrolled for a PhD. The deadline to submit applications is 15 January 2025.

Click here to access the 2025 Fellowship Guidelines and Instructions.

Click here to download the 2025 Fellowship Application.

To learn more about the 2022 GWI fellowship winners, we invite you to click HERE.

Education is the key to gender equality, economic promotion, better health and much more besides. Access to secondary, tertiary and continuing education is, however, still a distant dream for millions of girls and women. The fellowships and grants offered by GWI and its national affiliates support the research, study and training needed to open doors to quality higher and continuing education for women and girls throughout the world.

The Hegg Hoffet Fund assists graduate women who have been displaced as a result of war, political upheaval or other serious emergencies.

Graduate Women International offers every three years, on the occasion of its triennum, a number of international fellowships and grants to women graduates for postgraduate research, study and training. The GWI 2022 fellowships programme is now closed. The next GWI fellowships programme will open in the fall of 2024 ahead of the 2025 GWI Triennium.

Many of GWI’s national affiliates offer fellowships, grants, scholarships and stipends to women and girls for primary and secondary education, undergraduate studies and postgraduate research, study and training.

 GWI’s fellowships programme makes it possible for women graduates to complete exciting research in many important fields. For example, they are analysing the impact of global trends on women and children, investigating women’s health issues and assessing educational subjects. Many are working in areas directly related to GWI priority interests. Their studies will have far-reaching benefits, for their own careers, and for the communities and countries from which they come.