Harvard Kennedy School

Since the Kokkalis Fellowships program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe started and up to 2010, it has sponsored 42 fellows and has trained nearly 250 public sector and nonprofit leaders from the region through Executive Education programs.

The scholarships pertain to young scientists from the Southeastern and East-Central Europe region, with fellowships for graduate study at the Public Policy John F. Kennedy School, at the University of Harvard.

The Kokkalis Program was established by Socratis Kokkalis, in 1997. Mr. Kokkalis who became a John Harvard fellow on the same year, is the founder of the Intracom Group of companies, the leading multinational companies for cutting edge technologies, with worldwide presence in more than 52 countries.

In addition to supporting students, the Kokkalis Program serves as the core for education, research, and outreach activities related to Southeastern Europe and neighboring regions.

The Kokkalis Fellowships Program accepted numerous applications and offered educational opportunities to students from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. The students completed one of the following HKS degree programs: Master in Public Policy (MPP); Master in Public Administration (MPA2); Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA); Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID).

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The Kokkalis Fellowships program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe is no longer offered.