SNF announces Diaspora Fellowship Program for Greek scholars

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is inviting Greek scholars to apply for the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP).
The program, in cooperation with the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Fulbright Foundation in Greece, allows selected fellows to conduct research, mentor undergraduate and graduate students in research, and design new curricula, furthering collaborative academic exchange among Greek scholars worldwide. The program is exclusively supported by the SNF.
Greece experienced a wave of emigration in the wake of the global economic crisis of 2008, primarily among highly educated young people seeking to escape high youth unemployment levels. In the first years of this crisis, the youth unemployment rate was above 50 percent, and only fell below 40 percent as late as June 2018, according to the Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT.
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