History | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 27

Erasmus Mundus Master in Technology, Heritage, Territories Industry: History, Valorisation, Didactic(TPTI)

TPTI (Techniques, Heritage, Industry Territories): scientific quality in service training in technology history, heritage and areas of the industry.

Master TPTI is a inter-university diploma which is coordinated by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in collaboration with two other European universities, the University of Evora in Portugal and the University of Padua in Italy.

This diploma is the Erasmus Mundus program established by the European Commission to make Europe a pole of excellence in training and research capable of attracting the best students at European universities and researchers worldwide.

Master Erasmus Mundus TPTI offers training in two years, and is designed for students or professionals wishing to develop in methodology, theory and practical heritage. It focuses on both historical analysis and analysis of land and give it an extra dimension of pure research and action research. Thus, it leads to either a doctoral or professional applications (expert, consulting, business culture). Each candidate selected by the Consortium received a grant from the European Commission.

TPTI remains on the account that hundreds of Masters Erasmus Mundus European Commission, one of the few degrees that are aimed at the Francophone world and which makes French the main language of work, even though English is accepted as second language.

TPTI training is designed to provide its students with knowledge of high scientific quality, while enabling them to gain practical experience through internships, learning multiple languages (English, French, Portuguese and Italian) and mobility through various European and non-Europeans who prepare research or professional life.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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Returning Scholars Fellowship Program, USA: Social Sciences and Humanities

The Returning Scholars Fellowship Program, as part of a conscious strategy to combat “brain drain” in the social sciences and humanities, supports talented young scholars who, after earning a postgraduate degree abroad, seek university positions and academic careers in their home countries.  The program operates in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.
Securing the services of such scholars is essential to the revitalization of academic departments and the sustainability of higher education reforms, to which Academic Fellowship Program also contributes. The program offers scholars financial, institutional, and professional development support, as well as opportunities for further professional growth as program alumni.
Returning Scholars and partner departments also benefit from the presence of Academic Fellowship Program-supported International Scholars, who provide expert mentorship in such areas as professional development, curriculum development and reform, research methods, and teaching/learning methodologies specific for their discipline.
The program supports scholars from the aforementioned countries who have received (or will receive by the start of the fellowship) eligible degrees in the following fields: anthropology, area/cultural studies, economics, gender studies, history, human rights & public law, international relations, journalism/media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy/ environmental studies, public policy/public health, social work, and sociology. The program does not support scholars in philology, the visual and performing arts, and business.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 11 April 2011

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The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship, USA: Literature, History, Culture

The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship. The Hodson-Brown Fellowship supports work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. Candidates with a U.S. history topic are strongly encouraged to concentrate on the period prior to 1801. The fellowship is also open to filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, and others working on projects that draw on this period of history. The 2011-12 fellowship award supports two months of research and two months of writing. The stipend is $5,000 per month for a total of $20,000, plus housing and university privileges.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 March 2011

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