Thanks for asking! We would definitely consider later starts if people aren’t available earlier and I would be surprised if we rejected a strong candidate just on the basis that they are only available a month later. There’s some chance we would shorten the default fellowship length (not necessarily by the same number of weeks that they would start later) for them, though but we would discuss this with them first. I think if they would only accept the fellowship if it starts later and is the original 9 weeks long, this would increase the threshold for accepting them somewhat, but again, I would be surprised if we rejected a very strong candidate just on the basis. (I think it would only matter for edge cases.) It also depends a bit on what other applications we get: E.g. if we get many strong applications for Germans who can only start later, we would probably be much more happy to accommodate all of them.
Thanks for asking! We would definitely consider later starts if people aren’t available earlier and I would be surprised if we rejected a strong candidate just on the basis that they are only available a month later. There’s some chance we would shorten the default fellowship length (not necessarily by the same number of weeks that they would start later) for them, though but we would discuss this with them first. I think if they would only accept the fellowship if it starts later and is the original 9 weeks long, this would increase the threshold for accepting them somewhat, but again, I would be surprised if we rejected a very strong candidate just on the basis. (I think it would only matter for edge cases.) It also depends a bit on what other applications we get: E.g. if we get many strong applications for Germans who can only start later, we would probably be much more happy to accommodate all of them.