Nordic Scholarship Programme 2027 for Researchers – YOA

Deadline: October 11, 2026

Applications are open for the Nordic Scholarship Programme 2027. If you’re a pupil or researcher engaged in Africa-focused research at a University in Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Iceland, the Nordic Scholarship Programme provides you the OPPORTUNITY to go to NAI for one month.

Through the Nordic Scholarship Programme, NAI goals to contribute to constructing capability within the manufacturing of data about Africa, and to advertise and set up relations with and between Nordic analysis communities.

Benefits

• The scholarship covers travelling bills for the least costly fare from residential tackle (in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland) to Uppsala and return.
• The scholarship holders are supplied with a desk and laptop in a shared workplace on the Institute and free lodging centrally situated in Uppsala.
• The scholarship additionally features a subsistence allowance of SEK 450 per day.

Note: The scholarship doesn’t embrace well being care insurance coverage or different insurances.

Eligibility

• You have to be pursuing Africa-oriented research/analysis inside the fields of social sciences or humanities.
• You could be a grasp pupil, PhD candidate, postdoctoral or mid-profession researcher.
• You could apply no matter citizenship, however you have to be affiliated to and based mostly at a college or analysis centre in Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Iceland (each once you apply and once you take up the scholarship).

Application

Apply on-line and add the next paperwork:

• Up-to-date CV, together with checklist of publications (if any).
• Outline of analysis challenge, 3-5 pages:
  • Objective of the analysis challenge: The analysis subject needs to be clearly recognized and contextualized inside its tutorial self-discipline.
  • Method and timeframe: Describe how the analysis challenge will likely be achieved, state the analysis technique, information gathering methods and timeframe.
  • Theoretical explication: A short indication of the theoretical foundation of the analysis challenge have to be included.
• Work plan, 1 web page:
  • The plan needs to be particular for the time spent on the Institute; clarifying what part of the analysis challenge the applicant will work on through the keep on the Nordic Africa Institute.
• Reference: A signed letter of help from the applicant’s supervisor or head of division, which confirms present affiliation and area of analysis.

Applications are primarily evaluated based mostly on the define of the analysis challenge. Be conscious that they learn proposals rigorously and it is very important them to find out about your analysis in your phrases and framing. Using AI to develop your textual content could place you at an obstacle within the evaluation course of.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Nordic Scholarship Programme.