NRF-MINDS 2023 Doctoral Scholarship for African Students

The DSI and NRF are pleased to announce a call for new applications for DSI-NRF Postgraduate Student Funding for the academic year 2023. All continuing students who are eligible for a second or third year of funding must submit a Progress Report and not a new application.

The programme will identify academically gifted African scholars from resource-challenged backgrounds to pursue postgraduate study in some of the best universities across the continent. Over a period of five years, MINDS will fund and support 45 Honours and Master’s scholars to study at African universities outside their country of origin, while the NRF will contribute funding for 50 Doctoral scholars from the rest of the continent based at South African universities.

• Table of Content
• About National Research Foundation (NRF)
• NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship
• Aim and Benefits of NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship
• Requirements for NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About National Research Foundation (NRF)

The NRF was established through the National Research Foundation Act (Act No 23 of 1998), following a system-wide review conducted for the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST). The new entity incorporated the functions of the research funding agencies that were previously servicing various sections of the research community, namely the former Centre for Science Development (CSD) of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the former Foundation for Research Development (FRD) that included several National Research Facilities. As an entity of the Department of Sci... continue reading

NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship

Aim and Benefits of NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship

• Full Cost of Study (FCS) or Partial Cost of Study (PCS).

Requirements for NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship Qualification

• Be a citizen of an African country other than SA, residing in any African country
• Be thirty two (32) tears of age and or younger on 31 December in the year of application for the doctoral scholarship and
• Be intending to pursue full-time doctoral studies with effect from the following academic year of the year of application at a SA public university.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

All the postgraduate students will be expected to apply on the NRF Connect system by accessing the link: https://nrfconnect.nrf.ac.za/. No manual applications will be accepted.

For more details, visit NRF website.