Fully Funded To UK : Join the Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship
The Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship targets mid-career professionals from the Western Balkans who show strong leadership potential in cyber security or cyber policy.
This fellowship is sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
The program takes place at Cranfield University, located at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Shrivenham Campus).
Program Overview
The ten-week fellowship offers fellows a comprehensive understanding of cyber security policy and legislation, examining its impact on national security, business opportunities, crime prevention, and privacy rights.
Key areas of focus include:
- Cyber threats: understanding the threat landscape, risk assessment, national security implications, internet governance, and protecting critical national infrastructure.
- The economics of the online world: covering cyber security, consumer awareness, consumer protection, challenges in adopting technology, open-source relevance, and how consumers embrace new technology.
- Cybercrime and internet law: exploring the economic effects of cybercrime, national and international efforts to combat it, issues in internet law, law enforcement concerns, privacy, social media misuse, and accountability in cyberspace.
- Unique issues and challenges facing the UK and the Western Balkans.
Don't miss out on the application deadline which is 4 March 2025.
Additional Information
- Coverage of all program fees
- Living expenses throughout the fellowship period
- Round-trip economy airfare from the Western Balkans to the UK
- Be a citizen and current resident of one of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, or Serbia.
- Commit to returning to their home country once the fellowship concludes.
- Hold a postgraduate-level qualification (or equivalent professional experience or training) at the time of application.
- Have at least five years of relevant work experience prior to applying.
- Possess significant professional experience in cyber security or cyber policy, whether as a policymaker, analyst, or academic.
- Demonstrate proficiency in English, which will be assessed through the application form and possibly an interview.
- Agree to comply with all the fellowship’s guidelines and requirements.
- Not hold British or dual British citizenship.
- Not be an employee, former employee, or relative of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been employed by them in the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications. This includes entities such as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, British Embassies/High Commissions, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Department for International Trade, UKVI, the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
- Not have received UK Government scholarship funding (including Chevening) in the last five years. Applicants must wait at least five years after completing a previous UK Government-funded scholarship before being eligible for a Chevening Fellowship.
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