Dear lecturers!
Join the Leadership Fellowship (22 April – June 2024), a unique opportunity for researchers preparing to lead or leading a team. This innovative programme offers networking opportunities, enabling fellows to gain a broader perspective on leadership in a European context with well-being at its core.
Structure and Components of the Fellowship
The Fellowship promotes well-being leadership skills in an international group of colleagues. It offers theoretical input, hands-on application, and individual development opportunities through group work and peer-to-peer formats.
Commencing on 22 April 2024 at the University of Florence, Italy, the Fellowship spans two months, concluding in late June 2024 at the Nantes Université, France (specific date to be confirmed). It combines live training sessions in both in-person and online formats with asynchronous learning by means of a coaching app. A further live training as well as several asynchronous trainings via the coaching app and peer-to-peer reviews take place online in the months between the two in-person workshops. The individual components are designed to provide theoretical input on leadership skills, intensive training, and peer-to-peer guidance on an individual basis.
The Kick-Off
The kick-off meeting takes place in Florence on 22 and 23 April 2024 and introduces the programme. It provides each fellow with an individual learning path for the fellowship and participants are divided into two groups in which they attend individual training sessions. The fellows receive theoretical introductions to 1) intercultural communication and 2) well-being in the workplace. Furthermore, peer groups, each consisting of max. four fellows, are identified and prepared for individual meetings. The kick-off meeting lasts for 1.5 days.
Individual E-Learning Sessions
The fellows have the opportunity to train their individual well-being and leadership skills during e-learning sessions. These skills are identified during the introductory kick-off meeting in Florence. The e-learning sessions are designed to allow the fellows to improve the desired skills through individual work in a flexible manner. Based on the individual work pace and complexity, each session can be completed in a flexible timeframe of 30 to 90 minutes.
Peer Group Meetings
The peer group meetings provide a platform for individual guidance, support, and exchange on the leadership skills developed through the e-learning sessions and discussed in the two main training groups. The group members collectively decide on the content, guided by a trainer who helps structure the meetings. Throughout the Fellowship, a minimum of three individual peer group meetings are scheduled at flexible intervals to accommodate everyone’s availability.
Reflection Training Groups
After the individual peer group meetings, the fellows engage in a reflective session to review their experience and progress since the kick-off. This session encourages extensive exchange and networking. The fellows are guided to reflect on the aspects of 1) intercultural communication and 2) well-being in the workplace they have experienced in their professional contexts and in the peer group meetings. The reflection training session is scheduled for 2 hours.
Closing Session
The closing session takes place at the end of June and brings all participants to Nantes Université for a guided reflection on the programme as well as final training and feedback sessions. It also prepares the fellows to transfer the skills they have acquired into their individual professional contexts as leaders. The closing session lasts for one day.
Eligible Applicants
The Fellowship is aimed at researchers from all EUniWell Universities who are either preparing to assume leadership within a research team or who have recently transitioned into such positions.
In particular, the fellows meet the following criteria:
- hold a PhD or doctoral degree,
- possess several years of research experience following the completion of their PhD,
- aspire to pursue a career in research leadership, whether within or outside of academia.
Application process
If you wish to apply for the Leadership Fellowship, please submit the following documents to by 3 April 2024:
- A cover letter in English, approximately one DIN A4 page long, that includes:
- Your motivation for participating in the Fellowship.
- A brief introduction to your academic career and future plans.
- Your understanding of the significance of well-being and how you envision promoting it at your workplace as a leader.
- A CV in English (including relevant certificates), providing an overview of:
- Your career development.
- Your current position at a your
- Past and current research projects you have been involved in.
- Relevant life-long trainings you have attended until now (documented via certificates).
- Your PhD / Doctoral Degree Diploma.
Please note that failing to submit any of the above-mentioned documents will result in your application being ineligible for consideration.
