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List of postdoctoral research fellowship 2025-2026 for African students to study in abroad or in Africa
The Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) (Senegal), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, invite applications for the African STARS Fellowship; a fully funded opportunity to pursue an MSc in Bioi
Published: 11 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Deadline: 26 Jun 2025
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African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural African Women in Data Science Fellowship. This timely initiative responds to the growing demand for data-driven leadership to tackle the pressing challenges of food insecurity and climat
Published: 11 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi Deadline: 31 Jul 2025
The FATE Institute Fellowship Program is a two-year, non-residential fellowship designed to engage policy experts, economists, academics, and development professionals in producing evidence-based research and insights. Fellows contribute to policy processes aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s ent
Published: 10 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 25 Jul 2025
The Commonwealth Startup Fellowship will run for six months and is designed to ignite and elevate high-potential startups from low and middle income Commonwealth countries. The programme is made up of a combination of immersive in-person experiences and online learning, to provide participants with
Published: 02 Jun 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: 30 Jun 2025
Imoukhuede Foundation (AIG) Fellowship Programme. The AIG Fellowship programme gives outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of the public sector an opportunity to deepen their knowledge and understanding of critical public policy challenges facing the cont
Published: 28 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified
This is a three-year partnership from 2025 to 2027. The final round of Fellowships – starting in January 2027 – will be awarded in due course as part of the same programme. Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, followed by up to two months based in
Published: 28 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 28 Jul 2025
The programme aims to equip a new generation of African policymakers with the tools to craft technically sound, context-sensitive, and fiscally grounded policies. Administered by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), in collaboration with the UN Development Coordination
Published: 20 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified
The African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme offers an interesting 12-month assignment with UNDP at its HQ in New York or in one of its regional or country offices. There will be no placement in hardship locations. Location: UNDP at Headquarters in New York or in a region
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Jun 2025
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Global Health Corps (GHC) is excited to launch our new Africa Leadership Accelerator Fellowship, a 9-month, hybrid program designed to strengthen the leadership and management skills of early to mid-career health professionals ages 21-35, working across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Leadership A
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia Deadline: 20 Jun 2025
The AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship seeks to achieve a twin goal of increasing the number of African women leading climate change action and catalyze production of climate solutions that work for women smallholders. The Fellowship is designed to address systemic gender inequalitie
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Jun 2025
The Western Union Global Fellowship Program is a fully-funded Impact Fellowship, empowering individuals supporting or hailing from refugee, highly-marginalized, or forcibly displaced communities around the globe. Through this experience, Fellows will gain essential skills, resou
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States Deadline: 01 Jul 2025
RWTH offers fellowships and travel grants to support research stays of doctoral candidates and postdocs from strategically relevant international universities or research institutions. Funding is provided by the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The goal of the Adva
Published: 15 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 30 Sep 2025
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RMI’s Global Women in Clean Energy Fellowship is now accepting applications from women professionals in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zambia. This fellowship is designed to empower emerging leaders with the skills, networks, and resources needed to drive the clean energy transition in their countries
Published: 14 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia Deadline: 21 May 2025
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Code for Africa (CfA) is offering eight African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) Institutional Fellowships to strengthen the investigative skills of research and media institutions in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. The programme aims to equip researchers and
Published: 13 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 May 2025
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The African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) returns to Wits University from 5 to 7 November 2025 for its 21st edition. The Wits Centre for Journalism invites journalists, media professionals, trainers and academics to submit proposals around speakers, panels, themes or training that would
Published: 07 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Deadline: 23 May 2025
The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is designed to allow exceptional African researchers to build international networks and focus on a project of their choice in collaboration with Oxford-based scholars. Fellows will be affiliated with the University of Oxford for 12 months, including t
Published: 07 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 06 Jun 2025
A transformative 24-month fellowship empowering young African leaders to address climate justice and environmental challenges in the Lake Chad region.
Published: 07 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 31 May 2025
Within the Middle East Programme, founded in 2005, the IJP contributes to an intensive dialogue between media outlets in a region particularly affected by conflict and at the same time invites journalists from Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt to take part in an exchange with their German colleag
Published: 06 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 15 Jun 2025
