The European Meteorological Society announces the photography competition Europhotometeo 2024 (EPM2024). The competition is administered by the EMS in collaboration with the Asociación Meteorológica Española (AME). It is hosted on www.emetsoc.org.
ELIGIBILITY:
The competition is open to any person that would like to participate. Each author can submit one photo, which must have been taken by the submitting author. Entry is FREE.
Only digital photos specifically related to clouds or other meteorological phenomena taken within 2022 or 2023 will be accepted. When submitting an entry please provide us with a short description of your photo, original resolution, the technical equipment used, the where and when the photo was taken, including the country, all in the English language.
All submissions to EPM2024 are copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/); authors can choose a more restrictive licence. Photos must not infringe the copyright of any third party, or the right of a person on its own image.
All photos must be uploaded to the EPM2024 website; registration with the author’s full name and email-address is required.
The deadline for registration and upload of photos is 15 January 2024.
BENEFIT:
The Europhotometeo 2024 competition offers cash prizes for the top-three photos: First Prize: 1000€ Second Prize: 500€ Third Prize: 250€.
The Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, BIGSAS, invites outstanding African women scholars based on the continent to join an international community of early career researchers working in the field of African Studies. BIGSAS provides a centre for creative and innovative doctoral training based on the inter- and multi-disciplinary research environment of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth.
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must have a very good Master’s or equivalent degree. The last Master’s or equivalent degree must have been obtained within the last six years at the time of nomination by BIGSAS. Your application must be accompanied by two reports (letters of recommendation) from academic teachers in your past study programme(s) that know you reasonably well. Please use the DAAD template or make sure that the reports cover the points listed in the DAAD template (https://www2.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.pdf).
Applicants should not have been resident in Germany for more than fifteen months at the time of nomination. While applications may be submitted in German, English or French, do please note that the working language of BIGSAS is English.
BENEFIT:
In 2024, BIGSAS is awarding two scholarships within the Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). For these, BIGSAS will nominate candidates who have successfully passed the BIGSAS application procedure. The final selection on the scholarship will be made by the DAAD. The scholarship periods begin in October 2024 at the earliest (including a German language course starting in summer 2024, if applicable). The scholarships are awarded for a total scholarship period of up to four years.