Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant
Course(s) Offered: Thematic areas of interest
Course Level: Graduate (Master’s, PhD)
Provider: The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Country to Study in: Canada
Scholarship Description
The Africa Initiative’s (AI) graduate interrogation grant plan supports short-term academic placements for Master’s in addition to PhD students enrolled inwards choose African universities* labor interrogation on Africa on i or to a greater extent than of the program’s thematic areas—conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, in addition to migration, amongst especial attending to the cross-cutting number of climate change.
The AI interrogation grant is announced to 1). construct capacity past times giving bright, highly-motivated students an chance to detect in addition to impart novel learning inwards a cross-cultural experience; in addition to 2). back upward interrogation past times scholars inwards Africa in addition to Canada on critically of import areas to the continent.
In lodge to live on considered for the Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant, each applicant is expected to position professors, experts, or researchers they retrieve to operate amongst at universities inwards Canada in addition to are required to submit an official missive of the alphabet of back upward from the academy where they wishing to live on based.
Eligibility
In lodge to live on eligible for the grant, applicants must demonstrate the following:
Selection criteria:
Applicants are assessed based on the next criteria, every bit determined past times the application materials submitted in addition to subsequent interviews:
Course(s) Offered: Thematic areas of interest
Course Level: Graduate (Master’s, PhD)
Provider: The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Country to Study in: Canada
Scholarship Description
The Africa Initiative’s (AI) graduate interrogation grant plan supports short-term academic placements for Master’s in addition to PhD students enrolled inwards choose African universities* labor interrogation on Africa on i or to a greater extent than of the program’s thematic areas—conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, in addition to migration, amongst especial attending to the cross-cutting number of climate change.
The AI interrogation grant is announced to 1). construct capacity past times giving bright, highly-motivated students an chance to detect in addition to impart novel learning inwards a cross-cultural experience; in addition to 2). back upward interrogation past times scholars inwards Africa in addition to Canada on critically of import areas to the continent.
In lodge to live on considered for the Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant, each applicant is expected to position professors, experts, or researchers they retrieve to operate amongst at universities inwards Canada in addition to are required to submit an official missive of the alphabet of back upward from the academy where they wishing to live on based.
Eligibility
In lodge to live on eligible for the grant, applicants must demonstrate the following:
- must live on a Master’s or PhD educatee enrolled inwards an African university*
- must live on inwards goodness academic standing (with at to the lowest degree an overall B, or equivalent, standing)
- proposed interrogation must live on master copy in addition to timely in addition to must align amongst AI’s thematic areas of conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, in addition to migration, amongst especial attending to the cross-cutting number of climate change
Selection criteria:
Applicants are assessed based on the next criteria, every bit determined past times the application materials submitted in addition to subsequent interviews:
- applicability of proposed interrogation to i or to a greater extent than of the AI thematic areas
- quality of interrogation proposed based on the stated interrogation objective, orbit in addition to expected outputs in addition to results
- unique content of interrogation proposed
- relevance to electrical current policy issues and/or governance architecture
- methods in addition to expected results are clearly defined in addition to appropriate
- research excogitation makes effective role of the 4-month period
- level of academic achievement
- relevant involvement/skills inwards other interrogation projects in addition to previous rail tape of success
- demonstration of mightiness to write clearly
- recommendations from supervisors in addition to other professional person or academic sources
Citizens of sub-Saharan Africa
Participating Institutions
Select African universities*:
University of Botswana, University of Cape Town, University of KwaZulu Natal, University of Ghana, University of Dar es Salaam, Universite Gaston Berger de Saint-Luis, Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie de Rabat, University of Nairobi, Cairo University, University of Benin, National University of Rwanda, University of Jos, Rhodes University, University of Pretoria, Mzuzu University, MISR International University, in addition to Makerere University
AND
Select Universities inwards Canada**:
University of British Columbia, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of British Columbia, Queen’s University, York University, University of Calgary, Carleton University, Concordia University, Wilfrid Laurier University, Carleton University, Queen’s University, Carleton Univeristy, University of Ottawa, Queen’s University, University of Toronto, University of Windsor, York University, Bishops University, Concordia University, University of New Brunswick, University of Prince Edward Island, AND Wilfrid Laurier University
Fields of study
Any i or to a greater extent than of the AI program’s thematic areas: conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, in addition to migration, amongst especial attending to the cross-cutting number of climate change
Number of awards
Up to 15 grants volition live on awarded every year
Sponsorship duration
The plan supports short-term academic placements. Each educatee spends upward to iv months at choose Canadian universities** conducting interrogation funded past times the AI graduate interrogation grant program.
Scholarship benefits
The plan currently offers grants of upward to CAD$10,000 to upward to xv students per twelvemonth enrolled inwards a Master’s or PhD plan at choose African universities.*
Method of Application
Each applicant must submit the next materials inwards lodge to live on considered for the grant; application packages missing whatever of the required documents volition non live on reviewed. Includes Completed application form, Proposal, Letter of support, CV, University transcript, Letters of recommendation, Passport scan, in addition to Writing sample.
Applications must live on submitted past times the application deadline via e-mail to aiexchange@cigionline.org. Application materials must live on submitted inwards a unmarried e-mail (with the exception of references) amongst each attachment clearly titled. The Africa Initiative volition admit receipt of all applications inside 48 hours of receipt.
Each application is reviewed in addition to assessed based on established criteria. Shortlisted applicants are interviewed in addition to concluding candidates are selected based on the overall application in addition to interview assessment. Each applicant volition live on contacted amongst regards to the condition of their application prior to the populace proclamation of grant recipients.
DEADLINES:
The application deadline is May 31, 2011
PLEASE NOTE:
Makerere University Kampala (MUK) is Uganda's largest in addition to third-oldest establishment of higher learning, showtime established every bit a technical schoolhouse inwards 1922. In 1963, it became the University of East Africa, offering courses leading to full general degrees from the University of London. It became an independent national academy inwards 1970 when the University of East Africa was split upward into 3 independent universities: University of Nairobi (Kenya), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), in addition to Makerere University.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2011
Open to International Students: No(ONLY Africans)
Further Scholarship Information in addition to Application(pdf)
Further Scholarship Information in addition to Application(University homepage)
Related: Scholarships inwards Canada for International Students
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