UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs for Africa Scholarship Programme

Applications are welcomed from qualified Africans for the UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs for the 2021-22 academic session. The UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs programme is one of the pillars of the Excellence in Africa Initiative designed to fund science and engineering graduates intending to complete a PhD at an African institution.

The programme awards funding of a maximum of 80’000 Swiss francs in total for a period of at most 54 months. The candidates will be jointly supervised by a professor in an African home institution and by an EPFL professor. Qualified Africans are encouraged to apply for the PhD scholarship opportunity.

• Table of Content
• About
• UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs
• Aim and Benefits of UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs
• Requirements for UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs

Application Deadline	20 Apr 2021
Type	PhD
Sponsor
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs

• Awards funding of a maximum of 80’000 Swiss francs
• Provision of living allowance
• Covers tuition fees as applicable
• Consumables and direct costs for the use of infrastructure at the home institution or at EPFL
• Open science costs: costs for data storage and for granting access to data (open research data) and open access publication costs

Requirements for UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs Qualification

To be eligible for the UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs for Africa:

• Applicants must be a national of an African country
• Applicants must hold a Master’s degree awarded after the 1st of January 2018 or to be enrolled in the final year of the master study
• Must have an outstanding academic track record
• Applicants must be enrolled in an African academic institution when the fellowship will start, and to reside in an African country for the duration of the PhD
• Applicants must have the endorsement of a professor of an African institution willing to supervise the doctoral thesis for its full duration.

Interview date, Process and Venue for UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs

 

Application Deadline

April 20, 2021

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to on epflresearchfunds.gomovein.com to apply

Interested applicants for the UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs for Africa must submit their application with all required documents via the on-line submission platform before the submission deadline.

For more details, visit EPFL website.