Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award

📝 About Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship

The Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award is the Trust’s most prestigious award. It recognizes the endeavors of world-class researchers and has helped fund critical and important research that has far-reaching impact.

Opportunity Details

• Date Published: September 08, 2025
• Application Deadline: November 30, 2025
• Category:
  • Postgraduate
  • Masters
  • PhD
  • Fellowship
  • Contest
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Fully Funded

Sponsor Organisation

The award is sponsored by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.

🎁 Benefits of Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship

• The award provides leading academics with the freedom and flexibility to pursue their ideas and take their thinking to another level.
• Monetary Value: R2.5 million

✅ Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Requirements

• Open to scholars of the highest caliber engaged in cutting-edge and internationally significant research that advances knowledge, teaching, research, and development in South Africa and beyond.
• Applications are encouraged from all disciplines. Over the years, excellence has been awarded in fields such as:
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Engineering
  • History
  • Immunology
  • Mathematics
  • Neuropsychology
  • Philosophy and Ethics
  • Zoology

📅 Application Date and Process

• Applications or nominations must be submitted via the application portal.
• Incomplete or emailed submissions will not be accepted.
• Shortlisted candidates should be available for interviews in the first quarter of 2026.
• Awards are made at the discretion of the Trustees.

📌 Application Deadline

30 November, 2025

🌐 Application Portal

• View details of the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship.
• Apply for the fellowship via the Application Portal.

• The award is intended to provide leading academics with the freedom and flexibility to pursue their ideas, and take their thinking to another level.
• It has a monetary value of R2.5 million.