FRAME Intra-African Mobility Scholarships for African Students 2022

The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme is set up under the Pan-African Programme (Development Cooperation Instrument) and is based on the experience of the Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme.

The programme’s objective is to improve the skills and competences of students and staff through enhanced mobility between African countries. The specific objective is to implement Master’s, Doctoral level and staff mobilities via a strong graduate research and studies programme (GRSP) on Food, Energy, and Water Security (F.E.W.S) with a suite of academic programmes on offer at the partner institutions.

• Table of Content
• About Fostering Research and Intra-Africa knowledge transfer through Mobility and Education (FRAME)
• FRAME Postgraduate Scholarships
• Aim and Benefits of FRAME Postgraduate Scholarships
• Requirements for FRAME Postgraduate Scholarships Qualification
• Documents Required for Application
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Fostering Research and Intra-Africa knowledge transfer through Mobility and Education (FRAME)

Fostering Research and Intra-Africa knowledge transfer through Mobility and Education (FRAME) aims at strengthening research and education exchange to help finding solutions to the challenges of Food, Energy and Water Security (F.E.W.S) in Africa amid increased pressure from climate change, population, development and related impacts. FRAME has five African university partners (i.e. Buea, Cameroon; Hawassa, Ethiopia; KNUST, Ghana; Free State, South Africa and NUST, the applicant and coordinator, Namibia) with University of Twente, Faculty of ITC and Namibia Qualification Authority as technical... continue reading

FRAME Postgraduate Scholarships

Aim and Benefits of FRAME Postgraduate Scholarships

The scholarship package covers the following:

Travel and visa expenses
• One (1) return flight ticket according to travel bands
• Visa costs related to the mobility

Monthly allowance
• Master’s: ¤ 600 and Doctorates: ¤ 900
• One-month equivalent settling-in allowance
• One extra month of allowance for female candidates

Insurance cost (medical, travel, accident)
• 75 maximum per month

Degree-seeking:
Longer mobilities (Master’s or Doctoral) registered at a host
University for purposes of obtaining a Degree.
Credit seeking:
Shorter mobilities (Master’s or Doctoral), registered at home
University who would enroll at host University to gather credits
towards the registered degree.

Requirements for FRAME Postgraduate Scholarships Qualification

• Nationals and/residents of African countries who are staff, alumni and/or students registered in one of the Partner Universities at the time of application or having obtained a qualification from one of the Universities involved in the partnership.

Documents Required for Application

Documents to be attached:

• Academic Certificate
• Description of research topic
• Official Language Test (English test)
• Official Transcript of Diploma
• Passport
• Proof of registration/Alumni
• Current Resume or CV
• Host University Application form (Proof of application to the host University)

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia: https://www.nust.na/ (3 degree-seeking) (5 credit seeking)

• Master of Agribusiness Management
• Master of Natural Resource Management
• Master of Spatial Science
• Master of Environmental Engineering

University of Buea, Cameroon: https://www.ubuea.cm/ (2 credit seeking)

• Doctorate in Agronomy (crop protection)

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana: https://www.knust.edu.gh/ (4 credit seeking)

• PhD Food and Post-Harvest Engineering
• PhD Sustainable Energy Technologies
• Master in Renewable Energy Technologies
• Master’s degree in Soil and Water Engineering

Hawassa University, Ethiopia: http://www.hu.edu.et/hu/ (3 degree-seeking) (4 credit seeking)

• Master’s degree in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
• PhD Animal Nutrition

University of the Free State, South Africa: https://www.ufs.ac.za/ (1 Master degree-seeking) (1 PhD credit seeking)

• PhD in Disaster Management
• Master of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences (Agronomy)

For more details,visit FRAME website