TWAS-CSIR Postgraduate Fellowship Programme 2026 – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: 06 May 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2026 TWAS-CSIR Postgraduate Fellowship Programme. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India and UNESCO-TWAS have established numerous fellowships for international students from growing nations, who want to pursue analysis towards a PhD in rising areas of science and expertise, for which services can be found in CSIR laboratories and institutes.

Eligibility

Applicants for these fellowships should meet the next standards:

• Be a most age of 35 years on 31 December of the application 12 months.
• Be nationals of a growing nation (apart from India).
• Must not maintain any visa for non permanent or everlasting residency in India or any developed nation.
• Hold a Master’s diploma in science and expertise.
• Be repeatedly employed of their home nation and maintain a analysis project there.
• SANDWICH Fellowships: Be registered PhD college students of their home nation and supply the « Registration and No Objection Certificate » from the HOME college.
• FULL-TIME Fellowships: Be prepared to register at a college in India inside the first 12 months, if agreed to by CSIR.
• Be accepted at a CSIR laboratory/establishment and supply an official acceptance letter from the host establishment (see pattern Acceptance Letter that may be downloaded beneath or included within the Application Form). NB: Requests for acceptance have to be directed to the chosen CSIR host establishment(s);
• present proof of proficiency in English, if medium of schooling was not English;
• present proof that s/he’ll return to her/his home nation on completion of the fellowship;
• not take up different assignments through the interval of her/his fellowship;
• be financially answerable for any accompanying relations.

Submitting your application

• If already registered for a PhD of their home nation, candidates ought to be sure that the Vice-Chancellor or Registrar of the HOME college indicators a duplicate of the « Registration and No Objection Certificate » (see pattern included within the Application Form), a duplicate of which needs to be despatched to each CSIR and TWAS.
• Applicants ought to submit the acceptance letter from a CSIR establishment when making use of or by the deadline on the newest. Without preliminary acceptance, the application won’t be thought of for choice.
• Applications for the TWAS-CSIR Postgraduate Fellowship Programme can ONLY be submitted to TWAS by way of the net portal.  A tutorial on learn how to use the net application kind is on the market beneath for obtain.
• Please be suggested that candidates might apply for just one programme per calendar 12 months within the TWAS and OWSD portfolio. Applicants won’t be eligible to go to one other establishment in that 12 months beneath the Opportunities/visiting-scientist/professors”>TWAS Visiting Professor programmes. One exception: The head of an establishment who invites an exterior scholar to share his/her experience beneath the Opportunities/visiting-scientist/professors”>TWAS Visiting Professor programmes should apply for one more programme.

Results of the fellowship choice needs to be out there in on the finish of 2026 or early 2027 and chosen candidates will be capable to begin their fellowship NO sooner than 2027.
 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the TWAS-CSIR Postgraduate Fellowship Programme