26 Funding, Travel and Fellowship Opportunity for Professionals Across Various Sectors  Currently Open – September 20, 2025

Opportunities shape destinies. Every season comes with doors waiting to be opened by those bold enough to step forward. From grants that fuel ideas, to fellowships that sharpen leadership, to travel opportunities that expand networks, these platforms exist to elevate professionals across diverse sectors. This week, we’ve curated 26 Funding, Travel, and Fellowship Opportunities currently open as of September 20, 2025. Whether you’re a changemaker, entrepreneur, researcher, or creative, these opportunities are designed to support your growth and help you scale impact.

1. World Bank Group Young Professionals Program 2026. 

The World Bank Group Young Professionals Program engages top global talent with distinctive technical skills and diverse backgrounds to work across the World Bank, MIGA and IFC towards a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 30

2. UNU-WIDER Visiting Scholars Programme – September 2025. 

The Visiting Scholars Programme gives qualified scholars an opportunity to research topics related to development and/or global economic issues, and to participate in UNU-WIDER activities.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 30

3. Acumen India Fellowship 2025. 

Acumen invests in social entrepreneurs across the capital continuum and accompanies them on the journey to create transformational change. At Acumen Academy, they identify and prepare these leaders with the hard skills required to build scalable solutions to poverty and the harder skills of moral leadership to reimagine and build a better world.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Oct. 30

4. AIAS-WASEDA Visiting Fellowship 2025-2026. 

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University offers a number of visiting fellowships to outstanding researchers from abroad who are looking for an opportunity to engage in the international and interdisciplinary research community of AlAS and to collaborate with the research environments at Aarhus University (AU).
Click here to apply | Deadline : Oct. 7

5. lAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) 2025. 

The IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) seeks to inspire and support young women to pursue a career in the nuclear field. To that end, the MSCFP provides scholarships to selected students studying towards a master’s degree in nuclear-related subjects as well as limited internship opportunities facilitated by the lAEA.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Oct. 31

6. Place Network Emerging Leaders Artivism Alliance 2025-2026. 

Artivism is at the forefront of challenging power structures. It has the transformative power to build resilient communities and amplify voices and narratives that deserve to be heard.
Click here to apply |  Deadline: Oct. 1

7. AlAS-AUFF Fellowship 2025-2026. 

The AlAS-AUFF Fellowships are available for curiosity-driven, talented researchers from all over the world and within all research disciplines. Fellowships start on 1 September 2026, and last for 23 months for researchers with 2 to 10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 28

8. SAIS Investement Readiness Funding Programme (Fully funded) 

Are you an African start-up transforming agriculture with technology or tech-enabled innovation? Are you ready to scale your impact and attract investment? Apply now for the SAIS Investment Readiness Programme 2026.
Click here to apply | Deadline: September 28

9. Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) 2026/2027. 

Established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2009, the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong’s universities.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 1

10. World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) Risk Data Fellows Program 2025-2026. 

The Risk Data Fellows program is a 6-month work placement position for climate and disaster risk professionals (data scientists, geospatial analysts, and similar) from selected climate-vulnerable countries, offering the opportunity to work directly with World Bank Operations to access, create, and communicate climate risk knowledge to their communities.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 26

11. Civic Space Lab Reformers’ Program 2025. 

The Reformers’ Program provides comprehensive, tailored support to governments to address civic space challenges and strengthen civic freedoms. They help you design and implement effective reforms that create sustainable improvements in civic space while building lasting capacity for productive government-civil society collaboration.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified

12. UJALA African Scholars Program 2025.

The UJALA African Scholars Program supports African scholars to lead rigorous, policy-relevant impact evaluations in agriculture across the globe. Despite growing interest in evidence-based policymaking, many scholars face barriers to accessing the resources and support needed to lead high-quality randomized evaluations.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 1, 2025

13. Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program 2026. 

Since its launch in 2023, the fellowship program has supported 15 fellows from seven countries across two cohorts, who have written on pressing topics such as the governance of artificial intelligence, tech regulation, digital rights, and the entanglement of state and corporate power.
Click here to apply | Deadline :Oct.15

 14. Wells Fargo Sophomore Discovery Fellowship Program 2026. 

The Sophomore Discovery Fellowship Program is designed to provide students, who have completed their sophomore year of college, with an in-depth understanding of the day-to-day responsibilities of full-time employees across a variety of roles within Wells Fargo.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Ongoing

15. Princeton in Asia Fellowship 2026-2027. 

PiA fellowships are one- or two-year immersive work placements at host organizations in Asia. PiA Fellows develop skills and contribute to the work of host organizations in diverse focus areas including: Arts and Culture; Economic Development; Education; Environmental Sustainability; Peace, Justice, and Access to Information; Public Health, Sports and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 1

16. AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Agricultural Sciences 2026. 

The program funded by The Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) and implemented by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) seeks to build a pool of capable, confident, influential young women scientists equipped to excel in agricultural sciences, thrive in leadership roles, and champion gender integration in agriculture.
Click here to apply |  Deadline: Oct. 15

17. AFS Global Virtual Teacher Training 2026. 

AFS Intercultural Programs invites high school educators from around the world to apply for an exciting virtual professional development opportunity: the AFS Effect+ for the Classroom Program. Through the generous support of the Sir Cyril Taylor Charitable Foundation, 300 teachers will be selected to participate-at no cost-in an international training initiative designed to build global competence and intercultural teaching skills.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 8

18. McKinsey Forward Program in the United States 2025.

McKinsey.org Forward is a free ten-week learning program designed to equip individuals at different stages of their careers – from career starters to job changers – with practical skills to succeed in the future of work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 29

19. WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey 2026. 

The fully funded, 12-month WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey is designed to provide talented mid-senior career women leaders in health with the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 10

20. United Nations Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator 2026.

The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating companies participating in the UN Global Compact across industries and regions. The objective is to help businesses swiftly move from commitment to action on human rights and labour rights through establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence process.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 19

21.  2026 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program!

The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program is a two-month, cost-covered training program that gives a small cohort of talented people from all over the world everything they need to launch a field-leading charity.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 5

22. 2026 Tutu Fellowship Programme. 

On a continent blessed with outstanding young leaders, the Archbishop Tutu Fellowship Programme attracts the extraordinary young people that it does.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept.  21

23. Rise on Boards+ Program 2025. 

Rise on Boards+ (RB+) builds on the success of the original Rise on Boards program, which has placed over 200 leaders in governance roles since 2017. RB+ expands accessibility through a flexible, self-guided model, offering training modules, workshops, and resources that participants can engage with at their own pace.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 21

24. Africa Extractives Media Fellowship 2025-2026.

Are you a journalist passionate about telling Africa’s most important stories? Do you want to deepen your expertise in reporting on mining, oil, gas, climate change, and the future of green minerals? Apply now for the Africa Extractives Media Fellowship 2025-2026

Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 30

25. Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025-2027. 

The Department of Peace and Conflict and the project “Political Violence in Democracies” is recruiting 1-2 postdoctoral researchers to work within the project. The position is 2 years with start date 1 December 2025 (or by agreement).
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 1

26. David Leuschen Global Energy Fellowship 2026. 

The David Leuschen Global Energy Fellows Program prepares students to become leaders in energy and climate policy by equipping them with the knowledge and experience needed to address the most pressing challenges in the global energy system.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 30

For more information, visit OD Fellowship