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AYFN ACADEMY SUMMER JAPAN CULTURE CAMP 2025

Application Deadline: 1 April 2025

LOCATION: Japan

Japan Culture Camp by AYFN is a cultural learning program designed to give an understanding on culture and social awareness since 2015. This program enables participants to learn about Japanese culture in line with making a friend directly. This program is also an avenue to enhance knowledge and skill to face globalization. This is not student exchange, but youth and cultural exchange exposure program.

ELIGIBILITY:

All nationalities are welcomed to apply

Must be between 17 – 35 years old

Have an interest in Travel and Culture

Involvement in social and youth activities

Demonstrate leadership potential

Able to communicate in English

Able to travel to Japan during the program

Physical and mental healthy

Ready to document all activities

BENEFIT:

They offer three types of scholarships: Gold, Silver, and Blue. Each type has different benefit. Please read carefully. Application fee will be used to support the development of AYFN Programs, Promotions, Judges/reviewers’ honor and selection process. 

Gold

Program fee waiver scholarship and flight expense support.

Flight expense support (Valued at up to USD 1,000)

Porgram fee waiver (100%) => Worth up to USD 1,000

Application fee: 10 USD

Silver

Program fee waiver scholarship and flight expense support.

Flight expense support (Valued at up to USD 250

Program fee waiver ==> Worth up to USD 1,000

Application fee: 10 USD

Blue

Program fee waiver scholarship Program fee reduction scholarship.

Program fee waiver (100%)

Program fee reduction (20%, 30%, 40 %, 50%) from normal program fee

Application fee: 10 USD

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PHD PROJECTS AT IOCB PRAGUE – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2025

Application Deadline: 3 March 2025

LOCATION: Czech Republic

IOCB Prague is looking for talented, independent, and highly motivated PhD students with an MSc. degree or equivalent in life sciences or related fields.

As a student here, you’ll have the opportunity to work on interesting projects in a first-class tutoring program. You will be in a vibrant international setting of a prestigious scientific institution, which has cutting-edge equipment and modern technologies and collaborates with leading research centers around the world as well as with important commercial partners.

Registration deadline: 3 March 2025

Interview Day: 20 March 2025

ELIGIBILITY:

The universities have their own processes, conditions, and deadlines for PhD applications that differ from the IOCB recruitment process. IOCB has historically cooperated with Charles University and the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. However, other universities are not excluded and you can discuss details with the project supervisor.

UCT Prague

Charles University (Prague)

Masaryk University (Brno) – Faculty of Science

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Palacký University Olomouc

Deadlines for PhD applications to universities

UCT Prague: 15 April

Charles University (Prague): 30 April

Check the list of available PhD projects and read their detailed description. The projects are divided into three clusters:

CHEM – organic and medicinal chemistry 

BIO – biochemistry, bioinformatics, molecular biology

PHYS – analytical, physical, and computational chemistry

You can select up to 3 projects. You can cross the clusters, but it is not recommended – the clusters should help you to find your discipline of PhD study faster.

For general inquiries, please contact our PhD coordinator Martina at phdcoordinator@uochb.cas.cz.

Scientific inquiries should be addressed to the supervisor mentioned in the proposed PhD project.

BENEFIT:

PhD students must be enrolled in a partner university and will be employed by IOCB at the same time (part-time or full-time) with a competitive salary (a scholarship from the university + a salary from IOCB).

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