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GERMAN-AFRICAN INNOVATION INCENTIVE AWARD (GAIIA)

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Application Deadline: 7 November, 2023

LOCATION: Germany

With the German-African Innovation Promotion Award ( GAIIA ), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) honors outstanding achievements by African scientists. The prize promotes the further development of research results into innovative solutions that address the social and ecological challenges on the African continent and benefit the population.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Award is oriented towards the strategic cooperation priorities of the Federal Government’s Future Strategy and the Africa Strategy of the BMBF. Funding will be provided for collaborative projects which involve international cooperation and preferably deal with one or more of the following priority areas in line with the funding purpose described above:

Environmental sciences, Health research, Bio-economy, Societal development and social sciences (in particular socially responsible business practices, social innovations, sustainability strategies)

Resource management (in particular valorization of locally available resources, resource efficiency and sustainability)

Information and communication technologies. The project plan is expected to include joint work phases in the African and German partner countries. The success of the individual funded activities will be measured by looking, for example, at their contribution to

Increasing African and German project partners’ know-how about the respective thematic areas and/or their further development

BENEFIT:

The Innovation Incentive Award will be awarded to researchers in African countries and their partners in Germany for proven outstanding research with the potential for application in combination with a utilization or commercialization plan.

The Award will take the form of a grant paid for implementing a German-African cooperation project and is thus to be used for this specific purpose (see section 5 Type, scope and rates of funding). Supplementary to this, African award winners will be provided with individual qualification opportunities that support the transfer of their research results. These will be adapted to their individual needs and take the form of advice, training and networking measures during the project period and beyond. German cooperation partners will be involved in the
measures and learn about new applications for (part of) their research results in Africa. https://www.internationales-buero.de/media/content/BMBF_Call_GAIIA_III_2023.pdf

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DAAD SCHOLARSHIPS – MSC. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

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Application Opens: 15 November, Deadline: 15 December, 2023

LOCATION: Germany

In collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), a limited number of scholarships are available for MSc. Agricultural Economics at the University of Hohenheim under the special initiative “Development-Related Postgraduate Courses” (EPOS).

ELIGIBILITY:

Citizen of a developing country 

Minimum 2 years professional experience post Bachelor’s, prior to the date of applying

Academic degrees should be less than 6 years old

Development-related motivations and intentions

Must not have resided in Germany for longer than 15 months by the application deadline

Bachelor’s degree in a related subject with above-average results

Official proof English proficiency as detailed in the admission regulations (see below)
eg. IELTS academic (overall Band 6.5), TOEFL ibt (90).

Proof of undergraduate courses in statistics and economics

Proof of self-evaluation through the AgEcon PreTest

Detailed admission regulations are available for download: official (in German); for reference (in English).

BENEFIT:

DAAD EPOS scholarship recipients will have their tuition fees waived for the 2 years of the Agricultural Economics Master’s program, and they will receive health insurance, a monthly living stipend, travel costs to Germany and back as well as for research (see EPOS webpage for details and extras). Furthermore, an integral part of the DAAD EPOS initiative is an intensive German language course from August to September at a language center in Germany, prior to starting the Master’s program.

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