Taiwan Fellowship

The Fellowship recipients (herein referred to as “the recipients”) are as follows:

A. foreign nationals who are professors, associate professors, assistant professors, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, or doctoral program students at related departments of overseas universities, or are research fellows at an equivalent level in academic institutions abroad;

B. candidates recommended by ROC (Taiwan) overseas missions with a field of study on Taiwan’s foreign relations or cross-strait relations.

Those who are currently conducting research, teaching, or studying in Taiwan are ineligible.

A scholar’s field of study should be in the social sciences and humanities, with a topic related to Taiwan, cross-strait relations, mainland China, the Asia Pacific, and Sinology.

The Fellowship includes the following:

A. Ticket subsidy:

1. The recipients will be entitled to one direct round-trip economy-class ticket subsidized between their country of residence and Taiwan.

2. Tickets will be subsidized according to the actual purchasing price, but with a maximum subsidy for each area as follows:

a) Northeast and Southeast Asia: NT$35,000;

b) Europe and West Asia: NT$60,000;

               c) North America: NT$55,000;

               d) Central and South America: NT$75,000;

          e) Africa: NT$90,000;

          f) Oceania: NT$65,000.

3. After the recipients arrive in Taiwan, they must submit the following documents and sign receipts to apply for the subsidy:

a) stub of their tickets or e-tickets;

b) receipts for their tickets or other paperwork proving payment was made.

B. Monthly stipends are as follows:

1. Professors, associate professors, research fellows, or associate research fellows: NT$60,000; and

2.  Assistant professors, assistant research fellows, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, doctoral program students, and other candidates recommended by ROC (Taiwan) missions: NT$50,000.

3. The minimum duration of a fellowship is three months, and the maximum one year.

 C. Group accident insurance is provided during the term of research in Taiwan (NT$1 million for an accidental death, and NT$50,000 for accident injury medical benefits.)