Based on the success of the Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme, the Pan-African Programme (Development Cooperation Instrument) established the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme.

The program’s goal is to increase student and faculty skill and competence through increased mobility within and between African nations. Through a strong graduate research and studies program (GRSP) on Food, Energy, and Water Security (F.E.W.S.) with a variety of academic programs offered at the partner schools, the specific goal is to implement Master’s, Doctoral level, and staff mobilities.

Eligibility Requirements

African nationals and/or residents who are staff, alumni, students, or registered students at one of the Partner Universities at the time of application or who have earned a degree from one of the Partner Universities.

Benefits

• The scholarship package covers the following:
• Travel and visa expenses
• One (1) return flight ticket according to travel bands
• Visa costs related to the mobility
• Monthly allowance
• Master’s: ¤ 600 and Doctorates: ¤ 900
• One-month equivalent settling-in allowance
• One extra month of allowance for female candidates
• Insurance cost (medical, travel, accident)
• 75 maximum per month

Degree-seeking:

Longer mobilities (Master’s or Doctoral) registered at a host University for purposes of obtaining a Degree.

Credit seeking:

• Shorter mobilities (Master’s or Doctoral), registered at home
• University who would enroll at host University to gather credits towards the registered degree.

How To Apply

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia: https://www.nust.na/ (3 degree-seeking) (5 credit seeking)

• Master of Agribusiness Management
• Master of Natural Resource Management
• Master of Spatial Science
• Master of Environmental Engineering

University of Buea, Cameroon: https://www.ubuea.cm/ (2 credit seeking)

• Doctorate in Agronomy (crop protection)

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana: https://www.knust.edu.gh/ (4 credit seeking)

• PhD Food and Post-Harvest Engineering
• PhD Sustainable Energy Technologies
• Master in Renewable Energy Technologies
• Master’s degree in Soil and Water Engineering

Hawassa University, Ethiopia: http://www.hu.edu.et/hu/ (3 degree-seeking) (4 credit seeking)

• Master’s degree in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
• PhD Animal Nutrition

University of the Free State, South Africa: https://www.ufs.ac.za/ (1 Master degree-seeking) (1 PhD credit seeking)

• PhD in Disaster Management
• Master of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences (Agronomy)

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