Call for Applications :
Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grants
Course(s) Offered: Several thematic areas
Course Level: Postgraduate (masters, PhD)
Provider: AIIS
Country to Study in: Africa, Canada
Scholarship Description
The Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grants programme supports short-term academic placements for students enrolled inwards a Master’s or PhD programme at African universities.
Supported interrogation covers the Africa Initiative thematic areas of conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, too migration, amongst exceptional attending to the cross-cutting issues of climate change. Grant recipients are expected to self-identify professors too experts they would similar to move amongst at universities inwards Canada too volition move required to submit an official missive of the alphabet of back upwards from the academy where they wishing to move based equally business office of their application for the grant.
The Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant programme is currently accepting applications for interrogation to move conducted betwixt September too December.
Eligibility
Grant Eligibility Criteria:
Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grants
Course(s) Offered: Several thematic areas
Course Level: Postgraduate (masters, PhD)
Provider: AIIS
Country to Study in: Africa, Canada
Scholarship Description
The Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grants programme supports short-term academic placements for students enrolled inwards a Master’s or PhD programme at African universities.
Supported interrogation covers the Africa Initiative thematic areas of conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, too migration, amongst exceptional attending to the cross-cutting issues of climate change. Grant recipients are expected to self-identify professors too experts they would similar to move amongst at universities inwards Canada too volition move required to submit an official missive of the alphabet of back upwards from the academy where they wishing to move based equally business office of their application for the grant.
The Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant programme is currently accepting applications for interrogation to move conducted betwixt September too December.
Eligibility
Grant Eligibility Criteria:
- must move a Master’s or PhD pupil enrolled inwards an African university*
- must move inwards goodness academic standing (with at to the lowest degree an overall B, or equivalent, standing)
- proposed interrogation must move original too timely, too must focus on 1 of the Africa Initiative’s thematic areas of conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, too migration, amongst exceptional attending to the cross-cutting number of climate change
Eligible groups
Students of African universities
Participating Institutions
AIIS; WITH
Any academy inwards sub-Saharan Africa; AND
Select Canadian universities
Fields of study
Successful applicants to the Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grants would focus on the thematic areas of conflict resolution, energy, nutrient security, health, migration, too climate change
Number of awards
Up to iv months at lead Canadian universities
Sponsorship duration
15 students every year
Scholarship benefits
The programme offers grants of upwards to CAD$10,000 each to 15 students per twelvemonth to comport interrogation for upwards to iv months at lead Canadian universities.
An additional prize of $1,000 volition equally good move awarded to the best interrogation newspaper produced yesteryear a grant recipient.
The programme is edifice capacity yesteryear giving bright, highly-motivated students too scholars an chance to notice too impart novel learning inwards a cross-cultural experience.
Method of Application
Scholarship Application Requirements:
- completed application form
- proposal (maximum five pages) summarizing the applicant’s graduate research, including interrogation objective, methodology too expected results too outputs; a timeline too proposed interrogation innovation inwards Canada; too an overview of the capacity of the host establishment contacts’ interest amongst the applicant’s move land inwards Canada
- one missive of the alphabet of back upwards from the academy the applicant plans to move based at (either a missive of the alphabet of back upwards from the host academy inviting the applicant equally a visiting scholar or an credence missive of the alphabet from the host academy inviting the applicant equally an central student)
- current CV
- current academy transcript
- two letters of recommendations (one missive of the alphabet from the applicant’s academic advisor too an additional missive of the alphabet from other academic or professional person sources)
- passport scan
- writing sample (can move whatever written interrogation move authored yesteryear the applicant)
DEADLINES:
Last twenty-four hr menstruation to employ is 31 May 2011
PLEASE NOTE:
Program expectations: Participants are expected to render content for the Africa Initiative’s Africa Portal on a regular dry reason during their placement too write 1 major interrogation newspaper for the Portal at the halt of their placement.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2011
Open to International Applicants: No (Africans ONLY)
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