Masters Degree | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 107

DAAD Postgraduate Scholarship Programme with Special Relevance to Developing Countries, Germany

To do a Post Graduate degree course in select subject at one of the select German universities.
Target group: Very well qualified graduates (4 years) from any discipline with at least 2 years of relevant work experience.
Scholarship Value
• Stipend of Euro 750.00 per month
• A lump sum towards air fare from India to Germany and back
• Exemption from payment of university tuition fees
• A study and research subsidy
• Compulsory health insurance covered by DAAD
• 1 to 6 months German Language Course in Germany – free tuition, boarding, lodging plus pocket allowance during the period of the German language course (preceding studies)

Requirements and Conditions
• A 1st class Bachelor’s Degree
• Candidates come either from a public authority or a state or private company in a developing country and, as such, are engaged in the planning and execution of directives and pro-jects with emphasis on development policies having a bear-ing on technological, economic or social areas.
• There should not be a gap of more than 6 years between the award of last degree and application deadline (31st July) and the candidate should not be older than 36 years*
• Language competencies for courses in German: DSH 2 or TestDaF 4 for courses in English: TOEFL (minimum score: 550 paper based, 213 computer based, 80 internet based) or IELTS (band 6) certificate
• In general, candidates should be residing in India at the time of application. Candidates, who have been in Germany for more than one year at the time of application, are not eligible to apply.

Scholarship Application Deadline:31st July 2011

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Graduate Research Position: Customizable Multi-Processor Architectures and Algorithms, Canada

This position will be based at the Okanagan campus of UBC, and will begin as soon as possible.
Successful candidates will work on one of two related projects in the area of run-time configurable computing systems. The first project involves architectures and compiler support for the run-time customization of multi-processor systems. It further involves the development of innovative (re-) configurable architectures based on FPGA and course-grained fabrics. The second project relates to the application of reconfigurable systems to various problems in biomedical processing, network security, finance, bioinformatics, or computer-aided design.
The successful candidate must have a strong background in hardware and software design with exposure to one or more of the following areas: advanced digital hardware design, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), computer architecture, software engineering, real-time systems, numerical analysis, algorithm analysis, and convex optimization.
Interested students should contact Dr. Peter Hallschmid (Electrical Engineering) at the School of Engineering at UBC (peter.hallschmid-at-ubc.ca). Please include your resume/CV with a brief description of your research experience.

Scholarship Application Deadline: Contact Employer

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Scholarships in Master in Business Design at Domus Academy 2011 in Italy

Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, MBD represents a laboratory where designers, managers and entrepreneurs work in synergy on the creation of a new strategic language and operative code for business and market. Business Design is based on the idea that design is at the core of the business and its main driver. The objective of the Master is to train students on how to bring innovation and creativity, quality and effectiveness into products, services and social organizations. The MBD master program working activities are aimed to apply creativity to non-design business context, like systems and organizations, social business, leisure and tourism, consumer goods, food. business innOVATiOn /MbD.

Two scholarships, each of one covering 50% of the total tuition fee of the Master in Business Design at Domus Academy 22.200 euro (euro 18.500 + VAT 20%) These conditions are intended for the Academic Year 2011-2012 (September 2011 – August 2012) only. Every moral or paternity right as to the project remains property of the author. The projects sent to
Domus Academy will not be returned. All the material must be the result of an unpublished work developed by the candidate, not to be used by the candidate in other or previous occasions.

Scholarship Application Deadline:April 29th, 2011

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