URGENT: Application Process for WASCAL Doctoral and Master's Fellowships at the Graduate Studies Program has been extended

Please note: The call for application has been extended to January 22, 2016.

 

WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Center designed to help tackle severe challenges posed by climate change and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany. Through the Graduate Studies Program WASCAL’s Capacity Building Program helps educate the next generation of scientists to attain an intimate knowledge of different climate related issues in order to help the region develop suitable management strategies. 

 

The WASCAL Graduate Studies Program supports four Master’s and six Doctoral Programs implemented at ten lead Universities across West African countries. WASCAL provides full scholarships to the Doctoral and Master’s students in all the ten lead Universities with comprehensive training and research support. Doctoral students may spend up to six months at a host institution in Germany. The language of instruction is English. English and French language training programs are provided for all graduate students. Graduate students have access to the research facilities set up through WASCAL funding and located at various watersheds in West Africa. German partner universities collaborate with the Doctoral and Master’s Programs in the areas of curriculum development, visiting professorships and co-supervision of graduate students. 

 

The WASCAL Graduate Studies Program offers its students: 

• High quality research and education on climate change and its impact on human environmental systems.

• Up to six months at a host institution in Germany (Doctoral Programs only!)

• Interdisciplinary working approach

• International lecturers and supervisors

• English language classes

• Scholarship and research budget, including a personal laptop computer 

PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR APPLICATION PROCESS OF EACH PROGRAMMES (DOCTORAL/MASTERS).