TWAS Fellowships for Research and Advanced Training

Scholarship
Description:

• Application
  Deadline: October 1, 2018
• Course
  Level: Fellowships are available
  to young scientists for research and advanced training.
• Study
  Subject: Fellowships are awarded in
  the field of Natural sciences.
• Scholarship
  Award: TWAS covers international
  low-cost airfare plus a contribution towards subsistence amounting to a
  maximum of USD 300 per month. No other costs will be provided by TWAS.
• Number
  of Scholarships: Not Known
• Nationality:
  Developing countries
• Scholarship
  can be taken in the Developing
  Countries (other than applicants’ home country)

Eligibility for the
Scholarship:

• Eligible
  Countries: Applicants from developing
  countries can apply for these fellowships.List of Countries: Afghanistan,
  Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
  Bahamas, Bahrain Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan,
  Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria,
  Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central
  African, Republic Chad, Chile, People’s Republic of China, Colombia,
  Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Costa
  Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
  Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji,
  Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea,
  Guinea?Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, India, Iran,
  Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan,
  Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia,
  Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands,
  Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova,
  Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal,
  Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New
  Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia,
  Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia,
  Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Somalia, Sri
  Lanka, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint- Vincent and the
  Grenadines, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan,
  Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago,
  Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab
  Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia,
  Zimbabwe
• Entrance
  Requirements: In order to
  apply for these fellowships, applicants must follow the given criteria:
• The
  fellowships are for research and advanced training. They are offered to
  young scientists holding at least an MSc or equivalent degree.
• Eligible
  applicants for the fellowships are young scientists working in any area
  of natural sciences who are citizens of a developing country and are
  employed by a research institution in a developing country.
• There
  is no age limit. However, preference is given to young scientists at the
  beginning of their research career and those working in the least
  developed countries.
• Institutes
  of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, are not eligible host
  institutions under this programme. Applicants interested in conducting a
  fellowship in China are required to check whether their chosen host is a
  CAS institute. For a complete list of CAS institutes, see:
  english.cas.cn/institutes/. Applicants wishing to attend a CAS institute
  should either apply to the CAS-TWAS President’s Postgraduate Fellowship
  Programme or consider the CAS Fellowships for Postdoctoral and Visiting
  Scholars from Developing Countries.
• English
  Language Requirements: Applicants
  from outside the home country will often need to meet specific English
  language/other language requirements in order to be able to study there.

Application
Procedure:

• Part 1 of the
  application form should be completed by the applicant and the head of the
  applicant’s HOME institution, and sent to the TWAS secretariat. Material
  requested: the completed application form; passport-style photograph as a
  separate JPEG file; copy of passport page giving personal details (even if
  expired); the applicant’s curriculum vitae; full list of publications (do
  not enclose reprints of articles!); and letters of recommendation
  submitted separately to TWAS by two referees who are familiar with the
  applicant’s work.
• Part 2 must be
  sent by the applicant to the head of the institution he/she intends to
  visit, together with a copy of Part 1 (for information). Part 2 should
  then be completed by the head of the host institution and sent to the TWAS
  secretariat. NB: Applications cannot be considered unless Part 2 has been
  completed by the head of the host institute.
• Only for
  applicants selecting the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,
  India, as their host choice: please direct the request for Part 2 to Prof.
  Chakrabarti (Dean, Academic Programme by email: deanap-at-bose.res.in),
  accompanying request with a copy of CV, research proposal and two
  reference letters.

Application Form

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