Georg Forster Research Fellowship and Georg Forster Research AwardScientists and scholars from the following countries may apply:*

Afghanistan Ecuador Macedonia Albania Egypt MadagascarAlgeria El Salvador MalawiAngola Equatorial Guinea MalaysiaArgentina Eritrea MaldivesArmenia Ethiopia MaliAzerbaijan Marshall Islands

Fiji MauritaniaBangladesh MauritiusBelarus Gabon MexicoBelize Gambia Micronesia, Fed. States Benin Georgia Moldova, Rep.Bhutan Ghana MontenegroBolivia Grenada MontserratBosnia-Herzegovina Guatemala MoroccoBotswana Guinea Mongolia(Brazil)** Guinea-Bissau MozambiqueBurkina Faso Guyana Myanmar

SamoaSao Tomé and Príncipe SenegalSerbiaSierra LeoneSolomon IslandsSomalia South AfricaSouth SudanSri Lanka St. HelenaSt. LuciaSt. Vincent and the Grenadines SudanSurinameSwazilandSyria

BurundiHaiti Namibia Tajikistan

Cambodia Honduras Nauru TansaniaCameroon Nepal ThailandCape Verde Indonesia Nicaragua Timor-LesteCentral African Republic Iran Niger TogoChad Iraq Nigeria TongaColombia Niue TokelauComoros Jamaica TunisiaCongo Jordan TurkeyCongo, Dem. Rep. of TurkmenistanCook Islands, Dem. Rep. of Kazakhstan TuvaluCosta Rica Kenya Cote d’Ivoire Kiribati Uganda Cuba Korea Dem. PR of Ukraine

Kosovo UzbekistanDominica Kyrgyzstan

Pakistan Palestinian territories PanamaPapua New Guinea ParaguayPeruPhilippines

Dominican Republic VanuatuDjibouti Laos Rwanda Venezuela

Lesotho VietnamLebanonLiberia Wallis and FutunaLibya

Yemen

ZambiaZimbabwe

**Scientists from Brazil may be nominated for the Georg Forster Research Award. In the Fellowship Programme, researchers from Brazil can only apply for a Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship for the time being.

As of February 2018

* The list of developing countries is based on the information of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. The PR of China andIndia have been excluded from this list. As Palau exceeded the high income country threshold in 2016 and will most likely graduate from this list, applications from Palau are no longer accepted.