PAPSSN African partner institution - University of Witwatersrand

Call for applications: Pan-African Planetary and Space Science Network (PAPSSN) – Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Programme

Published on 24 Feb 2023

Call for applications: Pan-African Planetary and Space Science Network (PAPSSN) – Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Programme

Published on 24 Feb 2023

Applications are invited from African nationals for scholarships in the fields of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Planetary Geology and Remote Sensing.

The 3rd PAPSSN Call offers the following scholarships:

Target group 1: Applicants from or graduated at one of the partner Universities

• 1x MSc Degree Seeking*(24 months) to BIUST, Botswana
• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to Copperbelt University (CBU), Zambia
• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia
• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Nigeria
• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Target group 2: Applicants not from one of the partner Universities

• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to BIUST, Botswana
• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to Copperbelt University (CBU), Zambia
• 1x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia
• 2x MSc Degree Seeking (24 months) to University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Nigeria
African partners

Further detail

PAPSSN scholarships are jointly administered by five (5) African partner institutions, where selected students and staff will be able to engage in postgraduate studies, research, teaching or training.

The PAPSSN scholarship includes a return air ticket and visa costs, participation costs such as tuition fees, registration and service fees, Insurance, settling-in allowance, monthly subsistence allowance and a contribution towards the research costs associated with student mobility of 10 months or longer.

The PAPSSN consortium is committed to offering 50% of its scholarships to women and candidates from disadvantaged or marginalized groups.

We are strongly committed to ensure a 50:50 gender balance: women will be entitled to an extra allowance of 900 euro upon arrival at the host institution.

For more information email: info@papssnmobility.org

Apply online here and the deadline is 19 March 2023.

Pan African Planetary and Space Science Network

The PanAfrican Planetary and Space Science Network (PAPSSN) project is funded by the Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme of the Education Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission.

The Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) is a Government of Botswana supported institution established through the BIUST Act (CAP 57:05) as a research-intensive University that specialises in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) at both undergraduate and post-graduate level.