The Africa Platform of Ghent University Affiliation (Crevice) invites applications for going by colleagues. As one of the six territorial stages at Ghent University, Crevice encourages and cultivates scholarly collaboration between Ghent University Affiliation and scholastic educate in Africa. The Africa Stage has five going by investigate colleagues each year. Awardees will spend a least period of two weeks at Ghent University or one of the related University Colleges.
The Africa Platform fellowships are pointed at postdoctoral analysts (junior or senior teachers and teachers) who are subsidiary with an African higher instruction or inquire about institution. A two-sided assention or reminder of understanding should be in put between Ghent University and the African institution.
Two clusters of countries will be taken into consideration. In 2023, as it were candidates associated to colleges in Cluster 1 countries can apply.
- Cluster 1:Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Egypt, Central Guinea, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauretania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Western-Sahara;
- Cluster 2: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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Ghent University Short Stay Research Fellowships
Category: Fellowship
Organisation: Ghent University
Country to study: Germany
School to study: Ghent University
Course to study: Not specified
Application Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Aim and Benefits of Ghent University Short Stay Research Fellowships
The fellowships comprise of a allow of € 1000 + one return flight ticket, for a least remain of two weeks, which is implied to cover (or contribute towards) travel and accommodation costs and living costs. This implies that extra funding will got to be found in numerous cases – note that we are going as it were consider extra inquire about financing, not individual assets. The going to researchers will be given an office space and get to to offices (such as the library) as a Ghent University going by scholar.
Requirements for Ghent University Short Stay Research Fellowships Qualification
- Open to African researchers
Interview date, Handle and Scene for Ghent University Short Stay Research Fellowships:
Selection criteria and procedures
The taking after criteria will be taken into consideration within the determination procedure:
- The candidate’s profile, such as CV and logical accomplishments: 25%
- The inspiration, possibility and scholastic quality of the investigate arrange: 25%
- Added value/sustainability (affect of the inquire about remain on future departmental and organization collaboration) – definitive model: 50%
- New sorts of collaboration will get need, alluding to unused activities with a modern scope – need
- will subsequently be given to candidates who have not had a chance to visit UGent over the final 12 months.
- Interdisciplinary shapes of inquire about will get priority.
Timeline
- Application deadline: 1 October 2023
- Selection results: end of October 2023
- Mobility period: January – December 2024
Documents Required for Application
Personal information;
- A cover letter in which you show: the period of your visit, the investigate gather you may be associated with, a inspiration as to how your current and future investigate at your domestic college will advantage from a investigate remain at Ghent, and whether this visit concerns a unused sort of collaboration;
- A inquire about arrange (inquire about targets, strategies and instruments, a work arrange for the expecting visit, conceivable long-term participation plans, interdisciplinarity of the investigate, etc.);
- A budget;
- A list of your three most vital publications;
- Your signature and the signature of the Ghent University promotor. This implies that you just ought to already have a Ghent University promotor at the application arrange. In case you are doing not at present have links with Ghent University, the online research catalog can assist you in your rummage around for a promotor. You too have to be yield a brief inspiration explanation by the Ghent University promotor;
- A brief CV (max 2 pages) and a verification of your PhD degree in add to the application form.
Application Deadline:
October 1, 2023
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified? Go to Ghent University on www.africaplatform.ugent.be to apply
Your application ought to be in English or French, the application shape incorporates the taking after sections:
Personal information:
- A cover letter in which you show: the period of your visit, the inquire about gather
- you may be partnered with, a inspiration as to how your current and future inquire about at your domestic college will advantage from a investigate remain at Ghent, and whether this visit concerns a unused sort of collaboration;
- A inquire about arrange (inquire about targets, strategies and devices, a work arrange for the aiming visit, conceivable long-term participation plans, interdisciplinarity of the inquire about, etc.);
- A budget;
- A list of your three most imperative publications;
- Your signature and the signature of the Ghent University promotor. This implies that you simply ought to already have a Ghent University promotor at the application organize. On the off chance that you are doing not at present have joins with Ghent University, the online research registry can assist you in your rummage around for a promotor. You moreover have to be yield a brief inspiration articulation by the Ghent University promotor;
- A brief CV (max 2 pages) and a confirmation of your PhD degree in add to the application form.
- The application ought to be submitted by e-mail to Annelies.Verdoolaege@UGent.be in one PDF record, no afterward than 1 October 2023. Incomplete or late entries will not be considered. Each person can as it were get one grant.
