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Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) is currently accepting applications for its Scholarship on the Management of Cultural Heritage and the Transformation of Museums and Exhibition Centres 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
The purpose is to enable scholarship holders to deepen their professional knowledge transnationally, to introduce new perspectives and to build long-term cooperation through exchange. Thus, the scholarship strengthens ifa’s contribution to creating worldwide interpersonal understanding and trust and to promote democratic civil societies.
The scholarship covers the following:
Who can apply?
curators
restorers
mediators
culture managers
Applicants must:
work with cultural heritage, collections and/or archive records in institutional contexts
name a non-commercial, physical host institution for each stay and submit a specific concept note drawn up jointly with the host institution (this is decisive for the award of scholarships!)
have completed their higher education or vocational training;
have a very good knowledge of English (German or the language of the country of the host institution is an advantage, but not mandatory)
Exclusion criterion:
another scholarship or parallel residence during the funding period
The stay must take place between February and December 2027. The scholarship is an on-site scholarship that requires regular attendance at the host institution. Scholarship holders must prepare a final report.
Applications by Black people, people of colour, women, LGBTQIA+ persons, people with disabilities and members of historically marginalised groups, in particular people from colonialised contexts, are actively welcomed.
