Scholarships and Award Opportunities
There are a number of international and national governmental
and non-governmental organisations that offer bursaries and awards
to support students from developing countries to pursue
post-graduate research degrees both within and outside their
country of origin.
These usually work in one of two ways. Either the funding
body awards the grants to specific universities to administer, and
in this case the candidate applies directly to the
university. The second method is that the candidate applies
to the awarding body to gain a personal fellowship with which they
can then approach a number of participating universities with
funding in place. Gaining such an award is particularly
helpful for study in countries whose national PhD funding scheme is
not open to overseas nationals, such as in the UK for example,
where research council funding is available for UK nations only (or
EU nationals already resident for more than 3 years in the
UK).
As with the other resources, this page should expand over time.
Please let me know of appropriate weblinks that are missing from
this page. Adrian Tompkins (tompkins-at-ictp.it)
Country by Country
- UK: Dorothy Hodgkin Awards
- NORWAY: Scholarships from Norwegian State Education Fund
- AUSTRALIA: Australia development scholarships
- SWITZERLAND: Sawiris Fellowships at ETH
- FRANCE: Eiffel Scholarships (closing date around January)
- BELGIUM: VLIR-UOS (deadlines mostly in February)
- GERMANY: DAAD programmes (various for developing countries)
Other Organisations
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