TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – MENA 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: May 19, 2025

Applications are open for the TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – MENA 2025. The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme offers postdoctoral researchers dwelling and dealing within the MENA area with the OPPORTUNITY to make a 3-month ‘Cooperation Visit’ to a analysis institute in Germany. Such visits should be undertaken inside 12 months of the award.

The intention of the go to is to provoke analysis collaboration between the scientists from the MENA area and the German scientists with the last word aim of creating longer-time period hyperlinks, maybe by means of different Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, or German Research Foundation) programmes.

Cost

• DFG will cowl journey bills and supply subsistence prices for the keep in Germany. The administration and monetary operation of TWAS is undertaken by UNESCO in accordance with an settlement signed by the 2 organizations.

Eligibility

• Applicants want to carry a PhD obtained not sooner than 2020; nevertheless, for feminine candidates the yr restrict for the PhD may be prolonged by two years per child, i.e. for a lady with one child the PhD yr could be 2018 or later. This exception for feminine candidates has a restrict of three kids which equals a most of six years. Therefore, the PhD of a feminine applicant with three or extra kids mustn’t have been obtained earlier than 2014.
• Applicants should be engaged in a science system (together with graduate and postgraduate coaching, analysis, instructing) in a MENA nation for at the very least 5 years previous to the decision.
• Applicants already on web site in Germany will not be eligible.
• Applicants with a longtime collaboration with the supposed host will not be eligible. Examples of established collaboration embrace one frequent publication with the host Professor; the host Professor was beforehand the applicant’s MSc or PhD supervisor; or different varieties of intensive collaboration. Preparatory interactions (corresponding to digital conferences, together with different types of communication) previous to the deliberate visitor go to are inspired.
• Previous recipients of a TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visit can’t reapply. For a second go to, the German host can apply for funding underneath the DFG Initiation of International Collaboration Programme.
• Women scientists are particularly inspired to apply.
• All tutorial fields might be thought of.

Application

Applicants should full the net application type. While filling within the on-line application, candidates additionally must add the next documentation:

• scanned copy of your passport, even when expired (web page together with your title and surname);
• a latest invitation letter from a German host:
  • most two pages on the host establishment’s letterhead paper,
  • it ought to include the proposed time of the go to (as much as 3 months) and will confer with the proposed cooperation. The outcomes of the choice might be obtainable in January/February 2026. Therefore, the go to can happen between February 2026 and February 2027.
  • It must be made evident that the applicant and the proposed host have mutually agreed on the analysis proposal that might be submitted; the outcomes of the choice might be obtainable in January 2026.
  • affirmation that the required analysis services can be found;
• two reference letters from senior scientists accustomed to your work. The letters must be on headed paper and signed;
• copy of the PhD certificates;
• proof of proficiency in both English or German;
• supporting assertion from the Head/Director of the applicant’s home institute: it should affirm that the Head/Director is beneficial to the application and that the applicant might be granted go away to take up the cooperation go to in Germany if awarded.

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For extra data, go to TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme.