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

Deadline: April 15, 2026

Applications are open for the TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – SSA 2026. The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme supplies postdoctoral researchers dwelling and dealing in sub-Saharan Africa 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 purpose of the go to is to provoke analysis collaboration between African and 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.

Costs

• DFG will cowl journey bills and supply subsistence prices for the keep in Germany.

Eligibility

• Applicants want to carry a PhD obtained not sooner than 2021; nonetheless, for feminine candidates the 12 months restrict for the PhD may be prolonged by two years per child, i.e. for a girl with one child the PhD 12 months can be 2019 or later. This exception for feminine candidates has a restrict of three youngsters which equals a most of six years. Therefore, the PhD of a feminine applicant with three or extra youngsters mustn’t have been obtained earlier than 2015.
• At the time of submission of the proposal candidates maintain a analysis place at an establishment situated in a sub-Saharan African nation.
• Applicants have to have been engaged in a science system (together with graduate and postgraduate coaching, analysis, educating) for at the least 5 years previous to a respective name in a sub-Saharan African nation or MENA nation.
• Applicants already on website in Germany aren’t eligible.
• Applicants with a longtime collaboration with the supposed host aren’t eligible. Examples of established collaboration embody one widespread publication with the host Professor; the host Professor was beforehand the applicant’s MSc or PhD supervisor; or different kinds of in depth 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 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 can be thought of.

Application

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

• scanned copy of your passport, even when expired (web page along with your identify 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 seek advice from the proposed cooperation. The outcomes of the choice can be obtainable in January/February 2027. Therefore, the go to can happen between February 2027 and February 2028.
  • It needs to be made evident that the applicant and the proposed host have mutually agreed on the analysis proposal that can be submitted;
  • affirmation that the required analysis services can be found;
• two reference letters from senior scientists acquainted with 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 can be granted go away to take up the cooperation go to in Germany if awarded.

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