Deadline: March 19th, 2025 at 5pm U.S. Eastern time.
Open to: Exceptional leaders in any field or area of practice.
Benefits: fully funded Bellagio Center Residency Program

Description:

The Rockefeller Foundation believes good ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. For more than 60 years, our Bellagio Center Residency Program has supported innovators, trailblazers, changemakers, and champions to advance specific breakthrough projects. Bellagio seeks to inspire collaboration across sectors and professions, political affiliations, and national borders. In sharing their knowledge, approaches, and perspectives, residents strengthen their work and collectively transform the issues that define our present and shape our future.

Based in Lake Como, Italy, the four-week residency offers participants the opportunity to unleash their creativity and advance groundbreaking work. Residents can take advantage of focused, uninterrupted work time in this unique environment while participating in an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural cohort. They form lasting bonds and stay connected to The Rockefeller Foundation long after their residency ends as members of the Bellagio Network.

Eligibility:

• Leaders with significant achievement and recognition in their field
• Forward-looking, with a track record of advancing breakthrough ideas or actions that have had tremendous impact
• Aligned with The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission to promote the well-being of humanity
• Curious and collaborative — open to giving and receiving feedback from a diverse group of fellow residents
• Excited to remain active in the Bellagio Network after their residency

Applications that include at least one of these dimensions:

• Unlocking solutions as a result of engaging unlikely partners, including policymakers
• Developing solutions that empower people, communities, and nations to adapt
• Driving solutions at scale through innovative financing and technological advances

Benefits:

• Up to four (4) weeks at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy
• Room and board with a private studio for working
• A shared community of up to 14 scholars, artists, and practitioners from around the world
• Travel funding
• Future participation in an international network of Bellagio Center alumni, united in the shared purpose of creating a better world

How to apply?

For more information, visit our Official Website: here