MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme 2026 for engineering professors (Fully Funded to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)

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Application Deadline: May 20 2025 11:59 PM (EDT

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme. The MIT-ETT Program is a prestigious, teaching-focused fellowship supplied by the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) and proudly sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, TotalEnergies Upstream Nigeria Limited (TUPNI), and Partners.

The MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) program offers an intense, semester lengthy teaching-focused engagement for chosen cohorts of school members (ETT Fellows) from African universities. By introducing the ETT Fellows to innovative student-focused educating methodologies the ETT strives to foster innovation in science and engineering training in tertiary educational establishments in Africa.

Requirements

• This semester-long fellowship is designed for engineering professors presently educating at native universities in Nigeria who’ve not too long ago accomplished their Ph.D.

Program goals:

1. Expose junior African professors to MIT’s superior, problem-solving pedagogical strategies 
2. Encourage the ETT fellows to grow to be change-agents
3. Allow the ETT fellows to increase their skilled community, together with MIT school with a deep curiosity in rising economies.

During their semester at MIT, the ETT fellows: 

• Observe a minimum of 2 MIT programs in their very own disciplines  
• Take a curriculum design course and implement research-based tutorial design ideas of their programs
• Discuss & discover curricular enrichment & reform via each formal and casual interplay with the MIT neighborhood
• Participate in quite a few actions to develop crucial change-agent expertise. These expertise embrace entrepreneurship, efficient communication, experiential studying, reflection, collaboration, programs considering and perseverance.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme