African Water Resources Mobility Network (AWaRMN) PhD Scholarships 2020 for African Scholars

Published: 30 May 2020 1,923 views

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and outstanding candidates for full-time study in any of the doctoral academic mobility scholarship programmes of AWaRMN in any of the Higher Education Institutions within the partnership.

AWaRMN PhD Scholarship

Benefits of AWaRMN PhD Scholarship

For successful applicants, AWaRMN funding will cover the following areas:

1. Participation costs (e.g. tuition/registration fees) of students.
2. Research costs (e.g. field work, laboratory consumables).
3. Subsistence allowance: PhD: 900 Euro per month.
4. Special allowance to female students for mobility equal or more than 2 academic years, viz – PhD: 900 Euro per year.
5. Economic class roundtrip flight ticket and visa costs
6. Insurance (Health, accident and travel)
7. One-off settling-in allowance upon arrival to cover installation costs, viz – PhD: 900 Euro.

AWaRMN PhD Scholarship Courses

• Applied Hydrobiology
• Hydraulics
• Hydrology
• Water Resource Science
• Water Resources
• chemistry

Requirements for AWaRMN PhD Scholarship

General eligibility

To be eligible for support from AWaRMN, applicants must:

1. be a national of an African Union member state and resident in Africa at the time of application.
2. meet both institutional and partnership requirements for admission.
3. not have benefited from any form of previous support from Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, or Intra-ACP Mobility or Erasmus or Erasmus + programmes
4. must be prepared to move from home country to another country where AWARM has a partner institution. This also apply to foreign applicants who resides in a country with AWARMN institution. For such applicants, you must then consider applying to a third country. For example, you are a Ugandan, but resides in South Africa or have studied in South Africa, you can not apply to Rhodes University in South Africa or Makerere in Uganda. Scholarships are attached to mobility.

Academic eligibility

Applicants must also fulfill the academic eligibility criteria of the partner institution(s) of their choice. Please read the Eligibility Criteria of the Partner Institutions document. You can find it here https://www.ru.ac.za/intra-africa-awarmn/

Selection Process

1. Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the competitive selection process by email by 19 June 2020
2. Successful candidates will be expected to resume their study by August 2020.
3. Applications with incomplete or incorrect information will not be considered.
4. Female applicants, people with disability or people from socio-economically disadvantaged background are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline

How to Apply