TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – MENA 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 15, 2026

Applications are open for the TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – MENA 2026. The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme gives postdoctoral researchers residing and dealing within the MENA area with the OPPORTUNITY to make a 3-month ‘Cooperation Visit’ to a analysis institute in Germany. Such visits have to be undertaken inside 12 months of the award.

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

Costs

• 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 2021; nevertheless, for feminine candidates the yr restrict for the PhD will be prolonged by two years per child, i.e. for a lady with one child the PhD yr could be 2019 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 shouldn’t have been obtained earlier than 2015.
• At the time of submission of the proposal candidates should maintain a analysis place at an establishment positioned in a MENA nation.
• Applicants should have been engaged in a science system (together with graduate and postgraduate coaching, analysis, educating) for not less than 5 years previous to a respective name in a MENA nation or a a sub-Saharan African nation
• Applicants already on website in Germany should not eligible.
• Applicants with a longtime collaboration with the meant host should not eligible. Examples of established collaboration embody one frequent publication with the host Professor; the host Professor was beforehand the applicant’s MSc or PhD supervisor; or different forms of in depth collaboration. Preparatory interactions (comparable 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 not 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 educational fields shall be thought-about.

Application

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

• scanned copy of your passport, even when expired (web page along with your identify and surname);
• a current 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 consult with the proposed cooperation. The outcomes of the choice shall be accessible in January/February 2027. Therefore, the go to can happen between February 2027 and February 2028.
  • It must be made evident that the applicant and the proposed host have mutually agreed on the analysis proposal that shall be submitted; the outcomes of the choice shall be accessible in January 2027.
  • affirmation that the mandatory analysis services can be found;
• two reference letters from senior scientists conversant in your work. The letters should 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 verify that the Head/Director is beneficial to the application and that the applicant shall be granted depart 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.