Scholarship Details
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Scholarship nameWomen for Africa Foundation – Science by Women Program
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Sponsored organizationWomen for Africa Foundation
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Host instituteAssociated research centres are: BioCruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute (BC), Kronikgune Research Center, Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Vall d´Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering POLYMAT Fundazioa, The Basque Center for Applied Mathematics – BCAM, PLOCAN (Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands), IAC (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), Biomedical and Health Research Institute (IUIBS), Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Biodonostia Health Research Institute (Biodonostia HRI), Fundación para la Investigación del Hospital Clínico de la Comunidad Valenciana – INCLIVA, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona – ICMAB, Principe Felipe Research Center (CIPF), Spanish National Center of Biotechnology (CNB), Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Centre for Genomics Regulation
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Scholarship Amount$Fully funded
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Scholarship DurationSix months
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Scholarship Deadline2021-09-30
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GenderFemale
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Student Country of OriginAlgeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia
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Scholarship ContinentEurope
Description
The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA) is commencing the 7th edition of the Science by Women Program – a fully-funded opportunity for African women researchers.
With the primary goal of supporting African women in research, FMxA has established the program to fortify scientific discovery in the following African fields: health and biomedicine, sustainable agriculture and food security, water, energy and climate change.
Living allowance of 2,400 Euros (before taxes) per month to cover accommodation, personal expenses, and health and occupational accident insurance coverage. Only Biodonostia offers full boarding accommodation and a living allowance of 1400 euros gross. Return flight from their center of origin to the host institution.
Scholarship Type
Program Subject Areas
- Agriculture
- Forestry
- Applied Sciences
- Professions
- Biomedical Sciences
- Biomedicine
- Climate Studies
- Meteorology
- Energy
- Power Engineering
- engineering
- Technology
- Environmental Studies
- Earth Sciences
- Food Sciences and Technology
- Food Security
- Health Sciences
- Hospitality
- Leisure
- Sports
- Human Medicine
- Medicine
- health
- natural sciences
- mathematics).
- Water Engineering
- Health and Bio-medicine
- Water and Climate Change
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Safety