Deadline: 31 August 2012
Open to: master degree holders in science or engineering, up to 30 years from developing countries (other than India)
Fellowship: fully covered travel, living and insurance expenses
Description
Each year, the TWAS Fellowship Programmes, which operate under agreements with governments and national organizations in developing countries, offer a number of fellowships to young scientists from developing countries to carry out postdoctoral research in developing countries other than their own.
Eligibility
Applicants for these fellowships must meet the following criteria:
- Be a maximum age of 30 years on 31 December of the application year.
- Be nationals of a developing country (other than India).
- Hold a Master’s or equivalent degree in science or engineering.
- Be regularly employed in a developing country and hold a research assignment there.
- For SANDWICH Fellowships: Be registered PhD students in their home country and provide the “Registration and No Objection Certificate” from the HOME university (sample is included in the application form).
- For SANDWICH Fellowships: Be registered PhD students in their home country and provide the “Registration and No Objection Certificate” from the HOME university (sample is included in the application form).
- For FULL-TIME Fellowships: Be willing to register at a university in India.
- Be accepted at a biotechnology institution in India (see sample Acceptance Letter included in the application form).
Fellowship
- International travel (return economy class by the shortest route) and visa expenses will be covered by TWAS.
- Programme partners will provide a stipend to cover living expenses, including health insurance. Obtaining suitable health insurance is the candidate’s own responsibility and will be at his/her own expense.
- The Fellowships do not include provisions for accompanying family members.
- Applications for part-time Fellowships will be considered ineligible.
- Applicants must be affiliated with a university or research centre in their home country.
- Applicants must provide evidence that they will return to their home country upon completion of their Fellowships.
- Applicants already on site in the host country are not eligible.
- Women scientists are especially encouraged to apply.
- Applicants must submit an official acceptance letter from the host institution (a sample acceptance letter is included in the Application Form below) together with the application, or by the programme deadline at the latest, to both the relevant partner organization (except for DBT, India, ICCBS, Pakistan and icipe, Kenya) and to TWAS. TWAS requests an acceptance letter in all cases (also for DBT, ICCBS and icipe).
- Incomplete/unsigned applications will not be accepted. This also applies to submissions by fax and electronic mail, which must include all enclosures and be signed (either digitally or by including a scanned signature).
- Successful applicants must not take up other assignments during the period of their Fellowships.
- Applications will be acknowledged once they have been processed.
- Successful candidates will be notified by February of the year following the application.
- TWAS shall be entitled to a repayment of all or part of any funds paid to a Fellowship holder in the event that he or she intentionally or negligently fails to fulfil any or all of the conditions governing the TWAS Fellowship programmes. The Fellowship holder will have to agree to pay any reasonable legal and/or collection costs incurred by TWAS to obtain the repayment.
Please note that applicants may apply for only one TWAS Fellowship per year.
Application
Click on the links below to download the application form and guidelines. Before applying it is recommended that you read very carefully the application guidelines for detailed information on eligibility criteria, deadlines and other key requirements of the application procedure.
