CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE MSC SCHOLARSHIPS UNDER CLIMATE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO ADVANCING GREEN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA (CREATE-GREENAFRICA) PROJECT CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

 Date of release of the Call: 11^th April 2025

Deadline for submission of application: 25^th May 2025

 Background of the Project

The European Union (EU), under its Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, has provided funding to support training of graduate students in African universities under the “Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica)” project. The project, is a mobility programme comprising six African Partner Institutions and one EU Technical Partner. The CREATE-GreenAfrica consortium includes University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM, Tanzania) who is the coordinating institution, Mekelle University (MU, Ethiopia), Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU, Zimbabwe), University of Free State (UFS, South Africa), University of Ghana (UG, Ghana), Port Harcourt (UNIPORT, Nigeria) and European Technical Partner University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Denmark). This project aims at increasing climate-oriented skills and qualifications across the African continent through mobility and experience sharing. CREATE-GreenAfrica will significantly contribute to advancing the knowledge and skills of students, trainees and staff of the consortium and other non-consortium members on climate change adaptation and mitigation by ensuring the participation of women and girls, and the disadvantaged groups in the African continent in general and the consortium in particular.

A total of 35 Masters and 12 PhDs will be trained from 2024 to 2027 in the thematic areas of:

1. Environmental Sustainability (impact assessment, adaptation and mitigations of climate variability and change),
2. Climate/weather related processes at local and global level for proper forecast, prediction and early warning,
3. Resilience of food production systems to climate change and variability impacts,
4. Gender-climate-food system nexus, policies and institutions related to climate and development,
5. Climate change and water resources,
6. Collective action, and natural resource management and Ecosystem based adaptation to climate change.

The project will provide scholarships for full degree programs as well as short-term credit-seeking mobility for students. The project will support researchers who will be expected to undertake research that contributes to the overarching CREATE-GreenAfrica research objectives, which cover broad areas of climate change and adaptation.

This call for application targets 16 full-time MSc students from Africa to be hosted across the partner African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The successful candidates will be expected to undertake research contributing to the project objectives. The students will undertake high-level research that will produce journal, conference papers and innovations where possible. The duration of the scholarship is 24 months.

The mobility project aims at:

1. Producing high-level professionals through academic mobility across Africa that deal with climate change adaptation and mitigation, and other livelihood and environment related issues;
2. Conducting problem-solving action research activities in climate change adaptation and mitigation and other related environmental issues;
3. Building the capacity of students/trainees through attachment with climate-smart organizations engaged in private and public businesses using traineeship programs
4. Strengthening the partner institutions’ working relationship and capacity to advancing climate action in the continent through developing and dissemination of knowledge innovation schemes

Eligibility

The scholarships are open to all qualified African candidates residing in Africa at the time of application to be trained in the host institutions for respective programs in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.

Note: Applicants are only allowed to apply to study in an institution outside of their home country. Female and disadvantaged/vulnerable candidates are encouraged to apply. All applications will be handled confidentially.

Criteria for selection of students for scholarship

The following seven steps will be used in the selection process of students to benefit from the CREATE-GreenAfrica project:

1. The coordinating institution will receive applications and forward them to the target host university, which will subsequently shortlist the candidates.
2. The coordinator will receive the compilation of shortlisted candidates from the host institution.
3. The CREATE-GreenAfrica selection committee will review the shortlisted candidates and carry out the selection of candidates to receive scholarships (based on eligibility, authenticity of academic documents and qualification for admission by the target host university).
4. Communication of results by the coordinator to the applicants, scholarship awardees and host institutions.
5. Review, if there is any, appeal regarding the selection process.
6. Signing of the contracts between the CREATE-GreenAfrica and the scholarship beneficiaries and subsequent sending of the signed contracts to the host universities.
7. The hosting university will facilitate the travel and settling in/out of the awardees to/from the respective university.

The awarded candidates will be required to bear air ticket cost to the hosting institution and will be reimbursed the air ticket cost and any direct cost they incur during admission process after arrival to the hosting institution as part of the scholarship funds.

 Academic Programs, Host Universities, Countries and Number of Scholarships for MSc scholarshipsfor Academic Year 2025/2026

 What does the scholarship cater for?

The scholarship includes a subsistence allowance of 890 € per month for M.Sc. candidates. This will cover research cost, travel, travel insurance, subsistence and accommodation.

Insurance: During the study, insurance coverage (accident, travel, health) will be provided for the duration of the Scholarship within the limits of the grant provisions.

Tuition fees and research contribution: The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scholarship Scheme, CREATE-GreenAfrica will cover costs such as tuition fee, Application fee, Student Union, Registration, Caution Money, Student ID and Quality assurance fee in line with the MOU signed by the partner institutions and with EU.

How to apply

All interested applicants should download the application form, fill it and together with certificates and transcripts of results and other required documents and submit through the email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Admission criteria and procedure can be found at the hosting university website and scholarship application form is available at https://create-greenafrica.udsm.ac.tz/scholarships/application-for-scholarships. Admission process varies between hosting universities during scholarship application.

Awarded scholarship candidates will be notified as soon as the selection committee selected the candidates so that they can proceed to apply for admission to their respective selected universities.

Inquiries: For more information on the CREATE-GreenAfrica project, contact focal persons in each of the partner universities below:

PLEASE NOTE

The deadline for admission varies for each university.

Visit this page https://create-greenafrica.udsm.ac.tz/admission for admission information for each partner university.

Visit host university website for additional admission criteria

Please click here to download the scholarship application form.

TG1: These are students from the institutions of the hosting institutions which are:

1. University of Dar es Salaam
2. Mekelle University
3. University of the Free State
4. University of Port Harcourt
5. University of Ghana
6. Zimbabwe Open University.

TG2: These are students expected to come from other universities outside the hosting institutions and from sub-Saharan Africa non-partner university country such which are:

1. Democratic Republic Congo
2. Eritrea
3. Kenya
4. Somalia
5. Sudan
6. Guinea
7. Benin
8. Senegal
9. Chad
10. Burkina Faso
11. Zambia
12. Botswana

ISSUED ON 11^TH APRIL 2025