COMMISSION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ABEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM

Application Deadline: April 30, 2024

LOCATION: Germany

The Abel Visiting Scholar Program is intended for mathematicians professionally based in developing countries to visit an international research collaborator for a period of one month. The program is designed for post doctoral mathematicians in the early stages of their professional careers. It is designed to offer the opportunity for a ‘research sabbatical,’ a necessary complement to teaching and other academic duties for mathematicians desiring to also sustain a viable research program.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must

hold at the time of application a PhD in Mathematics,

be based in a developing country at the time of application (As defined by IMU)

hold a position in a university/ research institution

be in the early stages of their professional careers, more precisely: the applicants  should

not yet be of full professorial rank but have a working contract in a university/ college

be under 35 years of age at the day of the application deadline.

BENEFIT:

The Abel Visiting Scholar Program is fully funded by the Abel Prize in mathematics and is administered by the Commission for Developing Countries of the International Mathematical Union.

Usually up to 3 Grants are available per year.

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL) GLOBAL MASTERS SCHOLARSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 

Application Deadline: 5pm BST, Tuesday 7 May 2024

LOCATION: England

The UCL Global Masters Scholarship aims to enable and encourage international students from lower income backgrounds to pursue full-time Master’s degree studies at UCL.

ELIGIBILITY:

Candidates can be from any country outside the UK but must fulfill all of the following criteria:

be eligible to pay the Overseas fee rate;

come from a lower income background*;

AND have submitted a complete admission application (including the submission of references) for a full-time Master’s degree at UCL in 2024/25.  Please note: Distance-learning options are not eligible for this fund; students must be coming to the UK to attend UCL in person.

BENEFIT:

There are up to 85 (eighty-five) scholarships available in 2024/25 with five aimed specifically at students from India.

The value of the bursary is £15,000.

The scholarship is tenable for one year only unless the full-time programme is 2yrs in length.  In that case the scholarship will be paid 50% in each year.

The UCL Global Masters Scholarship may be held alongside other scholarships, studentships, awards, or bursaries. The amount of the UCL award may be adjusted depending on the total value of other funds received by the student.

Scholarship recipients are obliged to inform the UCL Student Funding Office immediately of any other funding they are awarded towards their UCL Master’s degree studies, before or subsequent to the UCL Global Masters Scholarship being awarded.

The scholarship will first be applied to the recipient’s tuition fees, with any remainder payable to the recipient in three equal instalments, throughout the academic year, towards maintenance.

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