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MANDELA WASHINGTON READERS FELLOWSHIP

Application Deadline: September 1, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The U.S. Department of State and IREX are seeking academic, professional, and regional experts to read and score applications for the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.  Over the first nine years of the Fellowship, the program received nearly 434,000 applications from 49 sub-Saharan African countries for 7,200 Fellow slots. Your talents and expertise in helping score their high volume of applications are greatly appreciated!

ELIGIBILITY:

Ideal readers are academics and/or professionals with expertise in one or more of the Fellowship’s thematic areas (business, civic engagement, or public management), or who have experience working in Africa or on sub-Saharan African issues.  U.S. Government employees and Fellowship Alumni are eligible.  Applicants for the 2024 Fellowship are not eligible to be readers.

Readers will be responsible for evaluating approximately 50 applications based on set guidelines and a scoring rubric.  This is a great volunteer professional development and résumé-building opportunity for professionals or degree-seeking individuals. Readers will gain exposure to challenges and proposed solutions in sub-Saharan Africa and to key processes in international and higher education.  

BENEFIT:

The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI).  The Fellowship brings young leaders to the United States for academic coursework and leadership training to create unique opportunities for Fellows and U.S. citizens to collaborate, spur economic  growth and prosperity, strengthen democratic governance, and enhance peace and security across Africa and the United States.  In summer 2025, the Fellowship will bring up to 700 young leaders to the United States for a comprehensive executive-stye program designed to build skills and empower Fellows to lead in their respective sectors and communities. 

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PAPSSN 3RD MOBILITY INTRA-AFRICA ACADEMIC MOBILITY SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME.

LOCATION: Italy

The Pan-Africa Planetary and Space Science Network (PAPSSN) aims to create a mobility scheme for students, academic staff and support staff amongst partners from Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia within the thematic field: “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)” with particular emphasis for Planetary and Space Sciences (PSS).

ELIGIBILITY:

Partner institution: Università di Bologna – Italy

The eligible countries for TG2 are as follows;

Central:  Burundi,Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé and Principe

Eastern:  Comoros,Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania

Northern:  Algeria,Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco

Southern:  Angola,Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Western:  Benin,Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo

Target Group 1 [Applicants From Or Graduated At One Of The Partner Universities]:

1x Msc Credit Seeking* (6 Months) To Copperbelt University (Cbu), Zambia

1x Msc Credit Seeking (6 Months) To University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa

1x Msc Degree Seeking** (24 Months) To Biust, Botswana

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To Copperbelt University (Cbu), Zambia

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To Addis Ababa University (Aau), Ethiopia

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To University Of Nigeria Nsukka (Unn), Nigeria

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa

3x Short Term Staff Mobility (One Month To Aau, Cbu And Unn) And 4x Long Term Staff Mobility (Three Months To Biust, Aau, Cbu And Unn).

Target Group 2 [Applicants Not From One Of The Partner Universities]:

1x Phd Degree Seeking (36 Months) To University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To Biust, Botswana

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To Addis Ababa University (Aau), Ethiopia

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To Copperbelt University (Cbu), Zambia

1x Msc Degree Seeking (24 Months) To University Of Nigeria Nsukka (Unn), Nigeria

In order to be eligible for this scholarship applicants must:

Be a national and resident in any of the eligible countries covered by the relevant Target Group; (Students cannot apply to study in an institution within their home country)

Be registered/admitted at one of the HEIs within the Partnership at the time of the application for a scholarship (Target Group I) or be registered/admitted in a HEI (not included in the partnership) of a country of the lot or having obtained a HEI degree (or equivalent) by an institution of a country concerned by the lot (Target Group 2);

Have sufficient knowledge of the language of the courses in the host Institutions.

BENEFIT:

Roundtrip flight ticket and visa costs (using a preferred travel agent and calculated against direct linear distance)

Participation costs such as tuition fees, registration fees and service fees where applicable

Comprehensive Travel Insurance (Health, Accident and Travel)

A monthly subsistence allowance for the mobility period

Settling in Allowance

Research Costs: only eligible to students on mobility for 10 months or more and to students who are registered for a minimum of 2 years. The distribution of funds from this pool shall be decided by the partners on the basis of the actual research needs of selected students. Students will be required to submit a budget for research.

An extra allowance corresponding to the monthly subsistence allowances will be paid per academic year to female master students and doctoral candidates, for mobility equal or longer than 2 academic years.

A second return ticket in case the mobility is equal or longer than two academic years.

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