Grímsson Fellowships are open to scientists, researchers, experts, scholars and writers of any nationality; in the fields of Climate Change, Environment, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Oceans, Sustainability, Clean Energy, the Arctic, History, as well as Literature | The deadline for the first round of applications is July 1st.
| The Fellowship, established by the new Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson Center, was launched in November 2022 at a conference in Ísafjörður; opened by the Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir The fellowships are supported by the University of Iceland, University of Akureyri, Reykjavík University, the University Center of the Westfjords, the biotechnology company Kerecis and Arctic Circle The fellows are invited to stay for 2-6 weeks in the House of Grímur, where President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was born and his family lived. The house is in the historic town of Ísafjörður, the capital of the beautiful Westfjords region in Iceland The Grímsson Fellowship program will appoint annually 2-4 fellows in order to encourage research and writing in an idyllic space close to the Arctic The aim is to promote cooperation and knowledge as well as relations between international and Icelandic communities |