January, 2011 | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 64

Internship at the International Global Environmental Strategies,Japan: Strategic Research

GES is recruiting research interns for the Summer 2011 period (as stipulated in our Charter of Establishment) with the aim of promoting understanding of its strategic research. IGES internships offer an opportunity to gain on-site work experience, and are aimed at those who wish to play a part in interdisciplinary policy research toward sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region.
Requirements:
Interns must:
– Be postgraduates (location of graduate school does not matter).
– Be willing to learn from the on-the-job training at IGES (the internship is not a training programme for students to write an individual thesis, but rather an opportunity to experience real strategic policy research and operational activities).
– Satisfy the individual criteria outlined in the “Internship Overview” for the group with which you would like to spend your internship.
– The research intern should be proficient enough in English for the purposes of oral communication and writing of documents.
Content of training:
The research interns will collect information for, or draft documents related to, their own research group. Work is supervised by the director of or training supervisor for the group to which the intern belongs. Those who are selected for internships will be contacted by the relevant group director to discuss and agree on the specific contents of training.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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Bio-CARe Programme for Women Scientists, India: Biotechnology

To facilitate the participation of Women Scientists in Biotechnology Research, DBT announces the launch of Bio-CARe Scheme for Career Development of employed/unemployed women scientists who have not received any extra-mural grants in the past. In order to maximize their reach, the schemes are open to applicants (aged 55 years or less on the date of application) from all areas of Life Sciences / biology (including Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Medicine and Bio-Engineering).
Scheme I – Research Grant Opportunity (RGO):
The programme aims at giving project grants to women scientists (employed & unemployed) for whom it would be a first grant. The purpose is to build capacities for women scientists employed fulltime in Universities and small research laboratories or unemployed women scientist after a career break so as to help them undertake independent R&D projects. Under this scheme the women scientists who are unemployed will be provided monthly emoluments ranging from Rs. 35,000/- to 45,000/- p.m. The employed women scientists in addition to salary will get an amount of Rs.5,000/- p.m as an incentive.

Scheme II -Career Re-orientation Fellowship (CRF):
This scheme would be mainly for women scientists who are trained in a particular area, but leave their permanent jobs / or are unemployed and would now like to change their career path to take on newer areas. Specialized skills would be essential and this would require training in the relevant field such as IP management, Bioinformatics, Policy research and analysis, Translational research, Regulation etc. This training could be for a period ranging from 3 months -12 months. Under this scheme the women scientists who are unemployed will be provided a stipend of Rs.25,000/- p.m. and employed scientists will get an amount of Rs.5,000/- p.m as an incentive in addition to their salary.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 28 January 2011

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Africa- India Capacity Building Scholarship 2011, Africa: Agriculture

The Mwalimu Nyerere Programme of the African Union has received support under the African Union – Government of India Cooperation for some special scholarships for African working in African institutions of higher learning and research. We are pleased to announce the 2011 Call for the Africa – India Capacity Building Scholarship program.

(a)   Special University lecturers PhD Fellowship.
(b)   Capacity Building Master’s degree Scholarship.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 11 February 2011

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