Communications | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 7

PhD Positions in ICT in Information Engineering and Computer Science at University of Trento,2011, Italy

Admission requirements :Applications must be filled using the online application.Complete information on how to enrol will be published in late March.The notification of the results is considered as delivered through the announcement of the list.The successful applicants will not receive personal communications of their results.Recognition of Academic Titles :In order to apply for this call your academic titles DO NOT need to have been officially recognised by Italian authorities.Official recognition is not provided by the University, it is a governmental procedure which needs to be undertaken by the person concerned.

If you have already had your titles recognised in the past as equivalent to an Italian Degree, you should state it in your application, indicating the Italian Rector’s Decree recognising equivalence number (given by Italian authorities).
Candidates who have a foreign degree that has not been officially recognised as equivalent to the Italian degree must upload as attachment 2 (in the application Call form) an English translation, signed by the candidate, to enable the Doctoral School Committee to evaluate a possible equivalence.
PLEASE NOTE that in case you are accepted to the School you will be asked to provide (no later than the 10.11.2011) a Dicihiarazione di Valore issued by the Italian Embassy based in the country where the University that delivered your titles is from.Areas covered by the call include (but are not limited to) the following.
Please refer to the call for information on the application and selection procedure for generic and project-specific grants.

Scholarship Application Deadline:16th of March, 2011

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Young Researchers Award

The GBIF Governing Board has established the Young Researchers Award to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students in master’s and doctoral programmes at universities in GBIF Voting and Associate Participant countries1.

Eligibility and Award
Graduate students in a masters or doctoral programme at a university in a GBIF Voting Participant or Associate Participant Country1 are eligible to submit a proposal to the GBIF Young Researcher Award programme. This year, the programme intends to make two awards of 4000 Euros each, one to a master’s student and one to a doctoral student.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 March 2011.

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Research Fellowships Positions in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, UK

The Centre for Communication Systems Research is seeking to recruit two full time researchers, initially for 1 year but extendable to longer term depending on performance. The work is funded through a project in the EU ICT Framework Program. For these openings, the successful candidates will be required to have postdoctoral research experience in University or Industry environments. Their areas of specialisation should be in the field of wireless networks, QoS routing, context awareness or self-x functionalities. For these openings, the successful applicants will be required to have experience in the general area of Mobile and Wireless Communications. Good analytical and/or simulation skills are essential. Applicants are expected to be proactive, to support other researchers and to be self-motivated.
Applicants should have a good honors degree in communications or electronic engineering, in computer science or another related discipline. Preference will be given to those with proven research and publications track record preferably with PhD and/or practical industrial experience. You will join an established research centre within a 5*A research rated EE department with a large scale wireless testbed for experimental proof of concept, excellent computing and software infrastructure for first class research, modern facilities and close links with industry.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 March 2011

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