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List of postdoctoral research fellowship 2026-2027 for African students to study in abroad or in Africa
Successful candidates will be part of a networked cohort of highly skilled applied epidemiologists (Epi fellows) who are able to work with National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) and National Ministry of Health (MoH) Departments to improve their levels of preparedness, field surveillance, and resp
Published: 27 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: 29 Oct 2021
Applications are open for the Active Citizen Fellowship 2021. The Active Citizen Fellowship is a rigorous hands-on learning program designed for young leaders in Nigeria who have demonstrated passion and commitment in the past to promote democracy and/or improve the quality of life in their com
Published: 24 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 17 Oct 2021
The Vital Voices GROW Fellowship is a highly competitive one-year accelerator program for women owners of small and medium businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. The program includes customized business skills training, technical assi
Published: 24 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 27 Sep 2021
The HQ team is making a call for applications for Amplify HQ, a paid two-month creative Fellowship program for African storytellers and creators, with a lens focused on Africa’s narratives and stories coming from the pandemic. Amplify is a partnership of TheZVG and Mastercard Foundation, and A
Published: 14 Apr 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 10 Oct 2021
A fellowship of up to $2,000 to support international African students travel to Africa for research. The award honors former Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, a scholar and politician, who led Nigeria as its first civilian president and who invited MSU faculty to join him and other Niger
Published: 23 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
African Environmental Defenders play an important role in protecting their lands and ecosystems from unsustainable industrial development, logging and extractive projects. But the nature of their work can expose them to significant risks. Throughout the world, there are ever-incr
Published: 23 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 24 Sep 2021
This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work. This call is part of the Atlas short-term postdoctoral mobility programme offered by the FMSH and its partners.
Published: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 10 Dec 2021
The program aims to give limited support for travel and subsistence to early-career researchers from African countries (PhD students and postdocs at African institutions), who are interested in gaining experience in another African country. The final goal is to contribute to the development of colla
Published: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Oct 2021
Applications are invited from suitably qualified African graduates for the AU Digital and Innovation Fellowship 2021 which aims at identifying and deploying highly competent tech innovators to African Union Headquarters. The fellowship will provide a platform for the innovator
Published: 22 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 04 Oct 2021
The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) offers up to two Tandem Residential Fellowships for 3-5 months each at the University of Ghana (for the academic year 2022/2023). The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (
Published: 21 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Nov 2021
The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is dedicated to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with ‘Sustainable Governance’ as its central topic. Our main thematic corridors are conflict and sustainable peace, democracy and environmental t
Published: 20 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Nov 2021
The U.S. Department of State and IREX is pleased to announce the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program 2021/2022 to participate in a six-week Leadership Institute at a U.S. college or university to share your experiences with and learn from U.S. citizens and other Fellows. The Fellowship&nbs
Published: 16 Apr 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Sep 2021
The aim of this IBRO-MENA school and conference is to introduce students to neurogenomics and to try to bridge the gap between basic neuroscience and clinical practice. The course consists of a 3-day advanced neurogenetics school followed by a 3-day clinical neuroscience conference. The school ai
Published: 13 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 19 Sep 2021
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I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. With this fellowship, I Tatti and the DHI Rom seek to stim
Published: 08 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Italy Deadline: 15 Nov 2021
Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants for the UNDP-AU Young Women Leaders Fellowship which is a 12-month fellowship to equip outstanding young African women. The AfYWL Fellowship Programme offers an interesting assignment with UNDP at its HQ in New York or in one o
Published: 30 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 14 Sep 2021
Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance is a platform for highly educated young African social, business and political entrepreneurs, attending leading universities in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Our mission is to capture, inform and engage Africa’s global intellectual capital in the d
Published: 20 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 23 Oct 2021
The African Union Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Policy Framework aims to facilitate harmonization of AU Member States’ SPS policy priorities of SPS systems in Africa. The policy framework addresses diverse and intersecting needs with the objective to; establish harmonized science-based SPS
Published: 20 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 10 Oct 2021
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This program is a direct effort to address the lack of US work experience barriers that skilled immigrant professionals face and racial and economic disparities in the field. The initiative will place ten talented, diverse, and multilingual Black immigrant professionals from Africa and the Caribbean
Published: 12 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 27 Aug 2021
The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships form a selective programme designed to mentor future African leaders. Through this annual fellowship programme, we seek to deepen and broaden our growing network which continues to contribute its skills and learning to a better Africa. The Fellowships offer t
Published: 11 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Switzerland Deadline: 15 Oct 2021
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We invite applications for postdoctoral fellowships from scholars who are within eight years of receiving the PhD degree, who are citizens of Sub-Saharan African countries, and who are currently working at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda. Women are especially encour
Published: 11 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 03 Dec 2021