UNESCO/People’s Republic of China (The Great Wall) Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2025/2026

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Application Deadline: 12 February 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025/2026 UNESCO/People’s Republic of China (The Great Wall) Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme. With a view to selling the human useful resource improvement and capability constructing of creating international locations and to enhancing worldwide exchanges within the area of schooling, tradition, communication, science and know-how and the friendship amongst peoples of the world, UNESCO the Government of the People’s Republic of China will co-sponsor a complete quantity of seventy-five (75) fellowships for superior research in numerous fields, at undergraduate and postgraduate ranges, in the course of the tutorial yr 2025-2026. Among these fellowships, forty-seven (47) vacancies will likely be open for brand spanking new recruitment to candidates from 135 creating Member States in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe and Arab area.

A candidate might apply for both a one-year Visiting Scholar programme (as General or Senior scholar) or a Master’s or Doctoral Degree programme with the period of study starting from 2 to five years. Subject to the provision of study programmes on the chosen universities, the study programmes will likely be taught in English or Chinese. Candidates making use of for the Chinese-taught programmes ought to have acquired a sure stage of Chinese proficiency earlier than endeavor analysis or learning of their fields of curiosity. 

Invited Member States

AFRICA – 46 Member States:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Eligibility Requirements

Candidates should be nationals of the above-mentioned invited Member States, fulfilling the next necessities:

• Meeting the eligibility necessities in age, language and tutorial {qualifications} for the chosen study programme:One-year Visiting Scholar Programmes– Candidates making use of for General Scholar Programmes should maintain a highschool diploma and shouldn’t be older than the age of forty-five (45); whereas those that apply for Senior Scholar Programmes should maintain a grasp’s diploma or an affiliate professor place (or above) and never be older than the age of fifty (50).- English proficiency is required. For a candidate making use of for a Chinese-taught programme as General or Senior visiting scholar, her/is Chinese proficiency should attain HSK Level 3.Degree Programmes– Candidates making use of for Master’s Degree Programmes should maintain a bachelor’s diploma and shouldn’t be older than the age of thirty-five (35); whereas those that apply for Doctoral Degree Programmes should maintain a grasp’s diploma and shouldn’t be older than the age of forty (40).- English proficiency is required. For a candidate making use of for a Chinese-taught diploma programme, her/is Chinese proficiency should attain HSK Level 4.
• Meeting the admission necessities of the utilized universities in phrases of tutorial means, language proficiency and different related standards.
• Be in good well being, each mentally and bodily.

How to Apply?

Step 1:
Read rigorously the Application Guidelines for the 2025-2026 UNESCO/China Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme to grasp the necessities for eligible candidatures and the procedures for the submission of application.

Step 2:
Contact the National Commission for UNESCO of your home nation to investigate the application procedures on the nationwide stage. Click here for the contact info of the National Commissions for UNESCO.

Applicants are inspired to contact prematurely their goal Chinese universities and acquire admission for the utilized study programmes. Applicants with admission paperwork will likely be prioritized in the course of the fellowship choice. If you might have acquired admission discover, pre-admission letter or invitation from professors, please connect the paperwork in your on-line application.

Step 3:
Submit your on-line application, together with the required supporting paperwork within the Chinese Government Scholarship Information System (http://www.campuschina.org) as talked about within the Application Guidelines.

Please check with the Instructions for Online Application for UNESCO/China – the Great Wall Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme, for a express steering on on-line application submission.

Step 4:
Submit your on-line application type and the supporting paperwork to the National Commission for UNESCO of your home nation.

Note: As National Commissions for UNESCO of the invited international locations will choose and transmit the functions of nominated candidates to UNESCO Paris Headquarters by 12 February 2025 on the newest, candidates are suggested to submit their functions to the National Commissions as early as doable.

Step 5:
As quickly as you might be knowledgeable by the National Commission for UNESCO of your nation that you’re nominated as a candidate for this programme, you need to talk your the net application type and the supporting paperwork to [email protected]. 

Note: Only functions nominated by the National Commission will likely be accepted by UNESCO. It is necessary for every nominated candidate to submit his/er application within the Chinese Government Scholarship Information System earlier than the application deadline. Application with out on-line registration is not going to be thought-about.

Step 6:
Letters of nomination, together with the copies of the net Application Forms and all of the application paperwork must be submitted to UNESCO by National Commissions by 12 February 2025 on the newest. Candidates who submit incomplete functions, or submit the net functions past this deadline received’t be thought-about.

Documents

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNESCO/People’s Republic of China (The Great Wall) Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme