| Capacity building sponsorship
opportunity
Charles
A. & Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow
Lindbergh Foundation provides grants of up to $10,580 (a
symbolic amount representing the cost of the "Spirit
of St. Louis") to men and women whose individual initiative
and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the
Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology
and the preservation of the natural/human environment.
The value of the Lindbergh Grants program
as a provider of seed money and credibility for pilot projects
that subsequently receive larger sums from other sources
to continue and expand the work has again been confirmed.
Seventy-four percent of Lindbergh Grant recipients responding
to a recent survey by the Foundation said they had received
additional funding for their research or educational project
earlier supported by a Lindbergh Grant, with 34% receiving
funds ranging from $50,001 up to $500,000 in supplementary
support.
U.S.
National Science Foundation
Developing Global Scientists and
Engineers
- Subprogram Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement
Projects (DDEP)
- For students enrolled in PhD programs
at U.S. institutions
- No deadline = applicable all around the
year
2006
Professional Development Program
IFAR’s Professional Development
Program in 2006 will consist of the annual IFAR Small Grants
Program, including the Ravi Tadvalkar Memorial Scholarship,
and the Wilfried Thalwitz Scholarship.
In support of its mission, IFAR annually
provides small grants to professionals from national agricultural
research systems in developing countries (NARS). The award
made to the youngest woman grantee each year will be designated
the Ravi Tadvalkar Memorial Scholarship, in recognition
of the many contributions to the organization by IFAR’s
first Treasurer and Secretary, his commitment to capacity
building in developing countries, and his concern about
diversity and gender issues.
IFAR also manages the IFAR Wilfried Thalwitz
Scholarship established in his memory by the family and
friends of the late CGIAR Chair for research linked with
CGIAR Centers.
The
Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP)
The Borlaug LEAP is a fellowship program,
funded by the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID),
to enhance the quality of thesis research of graduate students
from developing countries who show strong promise as leaders
in the field of agriculture and related disciplines as defined
by Title XII. LEAP is part of the overall Borlaug
International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows
Program sponsored by the USDA.
The LEAP program will support engaging
a mentor at a Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
system center to support and enhance the thesis research
and mentoring experience. Awards will be made on a competitive
basis to students who show strong scientific and leadership
potential, have a well coordinated proposal between their
home university, a US university mentor, and the CGIAR mentor,
and whose research is related to a strong research and support
project within the host country. Emphasis will be placed
on work that has relevance to the national development of
the student’s home country. Awards will be made twice
a year but applications may be received at any time. The
focus region for the current Request for Applications (RFA)
is sub-Saharan Africa.
Applications are welcome throughout the
year. However, reviews are conducted twice a year and administrative
deadlines for those reviews are: June 30 & October
15.
Third
World Organization for Women in Science
Postgraduate Training Fellowships
for Women Scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa or Least Developed
Countries (LDC) at Centers of Excellence in the South
The Third World Organization for Women
in Science (TWOWS) with funds generously provided by the
Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC) of the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), has
instituted a fellowship program for female students from
Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs),
who wish to pursue postgraduate training leading to a Ph.D.,
at centers of excellence in the South (developing countries),
outside their own country. Applications should reach the
TWOWS secretariat by 30 May of each year.
African
Fellows Programme (AFP)
The Rothamsted International African
Fellows Programme aims to provide problem-focused training
in Europe for mid-career African scientists. The Programme
started in 2004. The purpose of the programme is to assist
in capacity building, institutional strengthening and knowledge
transfer in order to find relevant solutions to the problems
of achieving sustainable agricultural production, as well
as improving rural development and conservation of biodiversity.
The development of effective partnerships is fundamental
to ensuring the success of the programme in order to build
long-term strategic alliances.
Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive
basis through an assessment panel and will normally be for
periods of 6 months although they can vary from 4 to 12
months depending on the nature of the project. The
next deadline is 4th July 2006.
Southeast
Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
SEARCA Invites Applications for
Graduate Scholarship in Agriculture
SEARCA is inviting applications from qualified
Southeast Asian nationals for graduate scholarship (MS and
PhD) in agriculture, social sciences, and related fields
focusing on the promotion of agricultural competitiveness
and natural resources management for school year 2007-2008.
Applicants may submit their applications directly to SERCA
or to their countries’ respective Ministry of Education
(Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia and Commission
on Higher Education in the Philippines). Deadline:
30 July 2006.
European
Molecular Biology Organization
EMBO short-term fellowships
Short term fellowships are intended for
visits of up to 3 months duration and aimed at collaborative
research between two EMBC member states.
(For non-European applicants the short
term fellowships are for a fixed duration of 90 days). Bi-annual
deadlines: Not fixed but ideally 3 months before
the proposed start date.
The
University of Reading
Postgraduate Studies in International
and Rural Development at IRDD, The University of Reading
Our purpose is to enhance the professional
and academic abilities of those who wish to or who already
work in development organizations and programmes by bringing
together knowledge and perspectives from natural and social
sciences in an interdisciplinary approach to research and
teaching for more effective and appropriate approaches to
the development process.
To this end, we have developed a modular
structure for our Postgraduate programmes that provides
students with greater study choices and the opportunities
to participate I modules run by other departments in the
University.
Generation
Challenge Programme - Capacity Building
Welcome to the GCP’s Capacity Building
Corner! Here you can find information about GCP training
events, fellowship and grant opportunities, and other human
resource development activities in the fields of plant genetic
resources, genomics, and molecular breeding. The Capacity
Building Corner is sponsored by Subprogramme 5 of the Generation
Challenge Programme: Capacity Building and Enabling Delivery.
G&D-Rockefeller
Fellowships for Enhancing the Careers of East African Women
Scientists
Fellowships for East African Women
Scientists
G&D INVITES APPLICATIONS for the Second
Round of Fellowships under a fellowship program for women
crop scientists working in national research institutes
(NARIs) and universities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The program is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and
implemented by G&D.
The First Round of the Fellowships benefitted
11 awardees. This innovative fellowship program is designed
to support professional growth in both scientific expertise
and people management, thus facilitating the development
of female science leaders and strengthening their institutions.
The Program will be implemented in two overlapping cycles
of two years each, over a three-year period from July
2005 to 2008.
Five
Colleges African Scholars Residency Program
Five Colleges African Scholars Residency
Program works to strengthen intellectual capacity in African
universities and to enrich Africa-focused scholarship at
the Five Colleges and internationally. It does so by bringing
junior and mid-level African scholars, employed by and teaching
in African universities and with active research projects
with an African focus, for 5 and 10 month research residencies
at Amherst College; Hampshire College; Mount Holyoke College;
Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst
and neighboring institutions associated in the Five Colleges
Consortium centered in Amherst, Massachusetts. Residents
are expected to complete scholarly projects with the goal
of publication either by the end of the residency or shortly
thereafter. Scholars are provided with laptop computers,
which they may retain once the residency is complete, to
sustain subsequent contact by e-mail. Each scholar will
be hosted by one of the 5 institutions, which will supply
office space, telephone and web access, and partnership
with a local faculty sponsor. Each resident will have access
to library and other research facilities at all 5 institutions.
All residents will participate in an interdisciplinary residents'
research seminar including fellow residents and Africanist
faculty from the five colleges, and will be expected to
present their work to the seminar, which will be conducted
in English. Teaching is not a requirement of the residency,
although residents may be invited as guest speakers in courses
offered at the campuses. This fund is generously supported
by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Deadlines:
June 1 and December 1 annually
The
Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP)
The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes
(NFP) are demand oriented fellowship programmes designed
to foster institutional development. The NFP is initiated
and fully funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign
Affairs from the budget for development cooperation. This
ministry has contracted the Netherlands organization for
international cooperation in higher education (Nuffic) to
administer the NFP.
The overall aim of the NFP is to help alleviate qualitative
and quantitative shortages of skilled manpower and to do
so within the framework of sustainable capacity-building
directed towards reducing poverty in developing countries.
More specifically, the NFP is focused on meeting the need
for further training and capacity-building in developing
countries. To maximize the fellowships’ impact on
capacity-building, NFP funded training must be linked to
the institutional development of organizations. A wide range
of organizations are eligible — governmental, private
and non-governmental. They can include educational institutions,
planning agencies, ministries, community-based organizations,
and private enterprises, for example. Different
deadline for each fellowship
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