Taipei Commercial Representative Office in the State of Kuwait welcome you to apply online for "2021 Taiwan Fellowship."
https://taiwanfellowship.ncl.edu.tw
Please note that the deadline for application is June 30, 2020.
Guidelines to the Taiwan Fellowship:
A scholar’s field of study should be in the social sciences and humanities, with a topic related to Taiwan, cross-strait relations, mainland China, the Asia Pacific, and Sinology.
The Fellowship recipients (herein referred to as “the recipients”) are as follows:
A. foreign nationals who are professors, associate professors, assistant professors, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, or doctoral program students at related departments of overseas universities, or are research fellows at an equivalent level in academic institutions abroad;
B. candidates recommended by ROC (Taiwan) overseas missions with a field of study on Taiwan’s foreign relations or cross-strait relations.
Those who are currently conducting research, teaching, or studying in Taiwan are ineligible.
The Fellowship includes the following:
A. Ticket subsidy:
(1) The recipients will be entitled to one direct round-trip economy-class ticket subsidized between their country of residence and Taiwan.
(2) Tickets will be subsidized according to the actual purchasing price, but with a maximum subsidy for each area as follows:
a) Northeast and Southeast Asia: NT$35,000;
b) Europe and West Asia: NT$60,000;
c) North America: NT$55,000;
d) Central and South America: NT$75,000;
e) Africa: NT$90,000;
f) Oceania: NT$65,000.
(3) After the recipients arrive in Taiwan, they must submit the following documents and sign receipts to apply for the subsidy:
a) stub of their tickets or e-tickets;
b) receipts for their tickets or other paperwork proving payment was made.
B. Monthly stipends are as follows:
(1) Professors, associate professors, research fellows, or associate research fellows: NT$60,000; and
(2) Assistant professors, assistant research fellows, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, doctoral program students, and other candidates recommended by ROC (Taiwan) missions: NT$50,000.
(3) The minimum duration of a fellowship is three months, and the maximum one year.
C. Group accident insurance is provided during the term of research in Taiwan (NT$1 million for an accidental death, and NT$50,000 for accident injury medical benefits.)
Applicants should first submit an on-line application form and then submit the following documents to the ROC Embassy or Representative Office in or nearest to their country of residence, as appropriate, for preliminary review:
A. Application form;
B. Resume (including a publication list);
C. Research proposal (Three pages in principle using a standard research format); and
D. Two letters of recommendation, or one letter of recommendation and one letter of consent from the chief administrator of their institute.
