PAGES Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program 2025 for African early-career scientists

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Application Deadline:  15 August 2025.

Applications are actually open for the 2025 PAGES Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program. Past Global Changes (PAGES) publicizes the Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program (African Mobility Fellowship) for African early-career scientists finding out previous international modifications.

The program goals to provide restricted help for journey and subsistence to early-career researchers from African nations (PhD college students and postdocs at African establishments), who’re eager about gaining expertise in one other African nation. The remaining aim is to contribute to the event of collaborative analysis and the promotion of paleoscience community inside Africa.

Logistics

• The fellowships shall be awarded for a brief period, between two and 4 weeks. The fellowship have to be used inside 12 months (awardees could have as much as 12 months to take up their fellowship as soon as awarded).
  

Requirements

The candidates should fulfill the next situations:

• Be an early-career researcher both within the remaining stage of finishing their PhD thesis/dissertation, or a postdoctoral researcher inside 5 years of finishing their PhD (together with PhD holders who haven’t held a postdoc place).
• Be both a scholar or maintain a paid place of their home nation on the time of the application, and throughout the fellowship interval.
• Be a citizen of any African nation and at present working or doing their PhD at an African establishment.
• Already be engaged on a analysis matter inside the scientific scope of PAGES.
• Be prepared to conduct analysis in one other African establishment/nation.
• Must safe the settlement of the host researcher/establishment, and supply a affirmation letter from the host researcher/establishment as a pre-condition for award of the fellowship.
• Demonstrate that comradeship is not going to final for lower than two weeks or for greater than 4 weeks inside a 12-month interval from the date of award.

Application course of

Awardees are chosen based mostly on the advantage and high quality of their application, which should embody:

a) Completed application kind, together with:

– Description of proposed analysis and journey (max. 1000 phrases). Indicate how the goals and aims of the fellowship relate to PAGES scientific scope.
– Description of the impression of the fellowship in your skilled capability improvement and its significance to your home establishment/nation (max. 200 phrases).
– Project timeline and outcomes (as much as one month period).
– Detailed funds in USD.

b) Two letters of advice (one from the present educational supervisor on the home establishment and one from the supervisor on the host establishment).

c) CV outlining the main educational {and professional} achievements (max 2 pages).

Application TImeline:

• September to mid-/finish of October: Review of purposes by the Scientific Committee
• Mid-/finish of October: Final choice communicated to candidates 
• November–December: Financial and logistical course of for allocating funds to chose candidates

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the PAGES Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program