Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) Scholarships 2025
Suitably qualified graduate students from Africa, residing in Africa and enrolled in a master’s or PhD degree program in African universities are invited to apply for the Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) Scholarships 2025 which aims to increase climate-oriented skills and qualifications across the African continent through mobility and experience sharing.
The European Union (EU), under its Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, has provided funding to support the training of graduate students in African universities under the “Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) Scholarship” project. The project is a mobility program comprising six African Partner Institutions and one EU Technical Partner. The CREATE-GreenAfrica consortium includes the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM, Tanzania) as the coordinating institution, Mekelle University (MU, Ethiopia), Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU, Zimbabwe), University of Free State (UFS, South Africa), University of Ghana (UG, Ghana), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT, Nigeria) and European Technical Partner University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Denmark) starting from the 2025/2026 academic session.
Through these Master’s scholarships and PhD scholarships, CREATE-GreenAfrica will significantly contribute to advancing the knowledge and skills of students, trainees, consortium staff, and other non-consortium members in 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 2028 in the thematic areas of i) Environmental Sustainability (impact assessment, adaptation, and mitigations of climate variability and change), ii) Climate/weather-related processes at local and global level for proper forecast, prediction and early warning, iii) Resilience of food production systems to climate change and variability impacts, iv) Gender-climate-food system nexus, policies and institutions related to climate and development, v) Climate change and water resources, vi) Collective action, and natural resource management and Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. The project will provide scholarships for full degree programs and short-term credit-seeking mobility for students.
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Scholarship Summary:
Scholarship Sponsor(s): European Union (EU) & CREATE-GreenAfrica
Host Institution(s): University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM, Tanzania) as the coordinating institution, Mekelle University (MU, Ethiopia), Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU, Zimbabwe), University of Free State (UFS, South Africa), University of Ghana (UG, Ghana), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT, Nigeria) and European Technical Partner University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Denmark)
Scholarship Worth: Fully Funded
Number of Awards: Several
Nationality: African Students
Eligibility for the Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) Scholarships 2025:
- Applicants must be African students 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.
- 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.
Selection Criteria:
- The coordinating institution will receive applications and forward them to the target host university, which will subsequently shortlist the candidates.
- The coordinator will receive the compilation of shortlisted candidates from the host institution.
- 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).
- Communication of results by the coordinator to the applicants, scholarship awardees and host institutions.
- Create-GreenAfrica selection committee may go further review, if there is any, appeal regarding the selection process.
- Signing of the contracts between the CREATE-GreenAfrica and the scholarship beneficiaries and subsequent sending of the signed contracts to the host universities.
- The hosting university will facilitate the travel and settling in/out of the awardees to/from the respective university and subsequently assign an academic mentor to assist them in successfully completing their study.
- The awarded candidates will be required to bear the air ticket cost to the hosting institution and will be reimbursed the air ticket cost and any direct cost they incur during the admission process after arrival to the hosting institution.
Scholarship Benefits:
- Allowance of 1230 € per month for PhD candidates and 890 € for M.Sc. candidates. This will cover research costs, travel, travel insurance, subsistence, and accommodation.
- Insurance coverage (accident, travel, health) will be provided for the duration of the Scholarship within the limits of the grant provisions.
- Full costs of tuition fees, Application fees, Student Union, Registration, Caution Money, Student ID, and Quality assurance fees in line with the MOU signed by the partner institutions and with the EU.
Method of Application for the Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) Scholarships 2025:
Interested and eligible applicants should download the application form, fill it with certificates and transcripts of results and other required documents, and submit it through email to the project coordinating office: ira@udsm.ac.tz.
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Application Deadline: September 6, 2024.
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