TWAS-ICIPE Postgraduate Fellowship for Developing Countries’ Scholars

y and Ecology

Programme
Details

• SANDWICH
  Fellowships (for those registered for a PhD in a developing country): The
  Fellowship may be granted for a minimum period of 6 months and a maximum
  period of 12 months.
• FULL-TIME
  Fellowships (for those not registered for a PhD in their home country):
  The Fellowship is granted for a period of up to 3 years. Candidates will
  register for their PhD at any university in a developing country.
• For
  a complete overview of eligible research interests please visit the icipe
  website: www.icipe.org. Go to RESEARCH and then drill
  down through the various research areas to see the individual projects. If
  you are interested in learning more about a research project for a
  potential ICIPE-TWAS Fellowship, please contact the Lilian Igweta, icipe
  Training Officer (see contact details below) who will put you in touch
  with the relevant scientist.
• The
  programme envisages only one journey to the host country.
• Icipe will
  provide a monthly stipend to cover living costs, food and health
  insurance. The monthly stipend will not be convertible into foreign
  currency. In addition, Fellowship awardees are entitled to subsidized
  accommodation.
• The
  language of instruction for foreign scholars in icipe is
  English.

Eligibility

Applicants for the full-time
postgraduate fellowships must:

• be
  permanent residents in a developing country (other than Kenya);
• be
  a maximum of between 35 and 40 years of age by 31 December in the year of
  application;
• hold a
  university degree (minimum qualification is a Master’s degree);
• provide
  evidence that s/he will return to their home country/country on completion
  of the fellowship;
• not
  take up other assignments during the period of his/her fellowship;
• be
  financially responsible for any accompanying family member;
• have
  official acceptance at an eligible department, institution or laboratory
  at icipe.
• not hold
  any temporary or permanent residency in Kenya or any developed country.

Applicants for sandwich
postgraduate fellowships must:

• be
  permanent residents in a developing country (other than Kenya);
• hold a
  university degree (minimum qualification is a Master’s degree);
• be
  registered PhD students in a developing country and provide a
  ‘Registration and No Objection Certificate’ from their home university;
• have a
  letter of agreement of his/her supervisor in his/her home country and an
  acceptance letter at an eligible department, institution or laboratory of
  the icipe. Both the home and the host supervisors are obligated to
  collaborate, in order to accompany the development of the awardee’s
  research;
• there
  is no age limit for these positions.
• provide
  evidence of proficiency in English, if medium of education was not
  English;
• provide
  evidence that s/he will return to her/his home country on completion of
  the fellowship;
• not
  take up other assignments during the period of her/his fellowship;
• be
  financially responsible for any accompanying family members,
• not hold
  any temporary or permanent residency in Kenya or any developed country.

Submitting
your application

• The
  deadline for receipt of applications is 15 September of each year.
• For sandwich
  fellowships (only if already registered for a PhD in the HOME country),
  applicants must ensure that the Vice-Chancellor or Registrar of the
  university sends a signed copy of the ‘Registration and No Objection
  Certificate’ on institutional headed paper to TWAS.
• Registration
  at a university in Kenya is not the same as preliminary acceptance from
  ICIPE.  To be eligible you must have a preliminary acceptance letter
  from ICIPE.
• Applicants
  should submit the acceptance letter from the chosen department/lab at ICIPE (ONLY)
  to TWAS when applying, or by the deadline at the latest. Without
  preliminary acceptance, the application will not be considered for
  selection.
• Reference
  letters must be on letter-headed paper, SIGNED and sent as attachments via
  e-mail to TWAS and icipe.
  The subject line must contain ICIPE/PG/ and the candidate’s surname. N.B.
  Only signed reference letters can be accepted. The letters can be
  submitted either by the referee or by the applicant directly.
• Applicants
  to the TWAS-icipe
  Postgraduate Fellowship Programme should send their application to TWAS
  only.

Applicants
should be aware that they can apply for only one fellowship per year. With the
exception of the VisitingScientists programme, all other fellowship programmes offered by
TWAS are mutually exclusive.

Are you a potential
applicant for a full-time PhD in a field related to atmospheric science,
climate and climate change, hydrology, multi-hazard early-warning or
disaster-risk reduction? If so, you may be interested in applying for a World MeteorologicalOrganization (WMO) travel grant as a complement to the PhD
fellowship.

Contact
Information

• TWAS Fellowships Office
ICTP campus, Strada Costiera 11
34151 Trieste, Italy
Tel:    +39 040 2240314
Fax:     +39 040 2240689
E-mail:     fellowships@twas.org

•

Ms.
Lilian Igweta, Training Officer

Capacity
Building and Institutional Development (CB&ID) Programme

International
Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)
Duduville, Kasarani – off Thika Road
P.O. Box 30772-00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 863 2272
Fax: +254 20 863 2001/2
E-mail: ligweta@icipe.org

2016 PG application form	191.5 KB
2016 PG application guidelines	533 KB