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CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS UNDER THE TAGDEV 2.0 PROGRAMME FOR THE 2026/2027 ACADEMIC YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT

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Application Deadline: 1st June 2026

LOCATION: Nigeria

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, Gulu University (Uganda), Egerton University (Kenya), Africa University (Zimbabwe), University of Free State (South Africa), Malawi University of Science and Technology (Malawi), University of Eldoret (Kenya), Uganda Martyrs University (Uganda), University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria), University of Cape Coast (Ghana), University of Bamenda (Cameroon), National University of Agriculture (Benin), and Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (Morocco), is implementing a 10-year (2023-2033) Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development (TAGDev 2.0) Programme. The Programme seeks to strengthen universities and TVET institutions to better serve communities by skilling and empowering Africa’s young people and their institutions to drive inclusive, equitable, and climate-resilient transformation of agriculture and agri-food systems. The Programme will support young African students that are economically disadvantaged but academically competent to enable them to complete their studies.

ELIGIBILITY:

The scholarship is open to both female and male applicants. Applications from females, refugees, and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged. This is a call for scholarships for the 2026/2027 academic year at the University of Port Harcourt (UniPort).

Scholarships are open to candidates in Nigeria from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Candidates from conflict and post-conflict areas of Africa residing in Nigeria are also encouraged to apply. The applicant must be in a position to qualify for admission into undergraduate or postgraduate programmes at University of Port Harcourt. All applicants should read and thoroughly understand the admission criteria for the relevant programmes at University of Port Harcourt. Students already having a scholarship of any kind are not eligible to benefit from this scholarship opportunity. Anyone with a double scholarship, if found, will automatically be discontinued. Beneficiaries of TAGDev scholarships are not eligible to apply

BENEFIT:

This is a full-board, comprehensive scholarship that covers tuition fees; research costs; workshop and conference costs; living expenses, including stipend and hostel; laptop; internship attachment; community engagement and field attachment; and entrepreneurship training. Consequently, considering the level of investment, successful applicants will be required to become high achievers, highly engaging and focused students/graduates, and change makers contributing to outreach services in the communities, capable of creating enterprises that create jobs for themselves and others and have personal satisfaction and dynamism.

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Opportunities, PhD/post doctoral, Scholarships

VIENNA BIOCENTER SCIENTIFIC POSTDOCS PROGRAM (2025 – 2030) 

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Application Deadline: 31 May 2026.

LOCATION: Austria

Designed to promote excellence and innovation in the life sciences, the program provides fellows with exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, international networking, and comprehensive career development. All application material must be submitted by email to vip-3[at]vbc.ac.at. Please refer to the “Guide for Applicants” for more details and specific instructions.

ELIGIBILITY:

The VIP3 program aims at attracting talented early-stage scientists from around the world to our highly dynamic, collaborative, and international campus to conduct interdisciplinary and innovative research.

Applicants must fulfill the following requirements:

Hold a PhD degree by the application deadline (31 May, 2026) in an area that is relevant to the research carried out at the VBC

The proposed scientific project must be interdisciplinary by combining the expertise of two VBC research groups participating in the current VIP3 call.

Applicants must have at least one (co-)first-author original research publication or preprint posted on one of the public servers.

By the time of the call deadline, applicants must fulfill the MSCA “mobility rule”; that is, they should not have resided in or carried out their main activity (work, studies) in Austria for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline.

All application material must be submitted by email to vip-3[at]vbc.ac.at. Please refer to the “Guide for Applicants” for more details and specific instructions. Applications will only be considered if they include all necessary information and documents.

Personal information: name, contact details, current place of education / employment

CV (up to 2 pages): education (transcripts, degree certificates), scientific training

5 keywords for the areas of the research proposal

Description of major past achievements and impact (½ page)

Statement of research motivation and interests (½  page)

Abstract of the research proposal (max. ½ page)

Research proposal bridging at least two of the research groups participating in the current call (max. 3 pages including reference list)

Statement on the expected broader impact beyond the scientific output to the public (½ page)

Contact details of two referees

List of reviewers to be excluded (if applicable)

BENEFIT:

Salary: All VIP3 fellows will be hired under full-time employment contracts (40h) by one of the host institutions, following that institution’s salary scheme. The salary reference is the salary scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria’s central funding organization for basic research.

Relocation Costs: The VIP3 participating institutions have mechanisms in place to contribute to the relocation costs of the fellows.

Research Costs: All the required research costs will be financed by the host groups / institutes.

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