PAGES African Mobility Fellowship Program 2025 for Early-Career Researchers in Paleoscience (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 15, 2025

Applications are open for the PAGES African Mobility Fellowship Program 2025 for Early-Career Researchers in Paleoscience. The program goals to provide restricted assist for journey and subsistence to early-profession researchers from African international locations (PhD college students and postdocs at African establishments), who’re in gaining expertise in one other African nation. The closing aim is to contribute to the event of collaborative analysis and the promotion of paleoscience community inside Africa.

The fellowships will likely be awarded for a brief length, 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).

Benefits

The fellowship supplies restricted monetary assist for worldwide journey and residing bills, together with:

• Flight (financial system class)
• Visa charges
• Accommodation and every day subsistence
• Laboratory consumables (as much as 10% of the entire price range)

Note: Insurance prices should not lined, and PAGES is just not liable for any points stopping journey (e.g., visa denial or flight cancellation).

Eligibility

They invite functions from excellent early-profession scientists from African international locations.

The candidates should:

• Be an early-profession researcher both in the ultimate 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).
• Citizens of an African nation and at the moment working or doing PhD at an African establishment.
• Already be engaged on a analysis subject inside the scientific scope of PAGES.
• Be keen 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-situation for award of the fellowship.
• Demonstrate that comradeship won’t final for lower than two weeks or for greater than 4 weeks inside a 12-month interval from the thirty first of December onwards.

Application

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

• Completed application form, together with:
  • Description of proposed analysis and journey (max. 1000 phrases). Indicate how the goals and targets 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 length).
  • Detailed price range in USD.
• Two letters of advice (one from the present educational supervisor on the home establishment and one from the supervisor on the host establishment).
• CV outlining the most important educational {and professional} achievements (max 2 pages).

The most popular language for functions is English; nevertheless, functions in French will likely be accepted. Grantees will obtain their grant cash by way of financial institution switch to a checking account supplied by them. After finishing the fellowship, fellows should e-mail a closing report in English to PAGES. It ought to embody a monetary report, a scientific report and a brief article (650 phrases and one determine) to be printed in Past Global Changes Magazine.

Send your accomplished application kind to [email protected] with the topic “Application PAGES African Mobility Fellowship”.

For extra info, go to PAGES African Mobility Fellowship.