The African Guest Researchers’ Scholarship Programme is directed at senior scholars in Africa engaged in research on/about the African continent. The aim of the scholarship is to promote cooperation between Nordic and African researchers and to facilitate use of the Institute’s library collections on contemporary Africa.
The Guest Researchers are invited to stay at the Institute for two or three months, working on their own projects. The scholarship includes a return air fare (economy class), accommodation, subsistence allowance, and a shared office equipped with computers/MS Word.
Applications are invited from scholars preferably with research projects related to current thematic research clusters at the Institute: Conflict, Security and Democratic Transformation; Urban Dynamics; Rural and Agrarian Change, Property and Resources; and Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration

Scholarship Application Deadline:15 April 2011.

Further Scholarship Information and Application