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DAAD in cooperation with the climate competence centers SASSCAL (Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management) and WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use), announced the DAAD ClimapAfrica fellowship program, that aims to foster application-oriented research results to tackle climate change in southern and western Africa.
The program funds postdoctoral research projects and offers a platform for collaboration in thematic working groups composed of postdoctoral fellows and African alumni of German funding initiatives with expertise in the field of climate research. Fellows and Alumni will increase their research impact and output through a comprehensive training and support program, including general skills training, science policy advising, and science management. The working groups serve as a platform to connect with peers, regional and international experts, and practitioners and to build a growing professional network across Africa.
The program sponsors a variety of research fields linked to climate change. It should be possible to assign the postdoctoral research project to one of the following research areas:
Note: The applicant can realize his research only in the following western and southern African countries:
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cape Verde Islands, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Madagascar and Bénin, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
The main criteria for evaluation are:
The basic fellowship consists of:
Additionally, support for the following activities can be granted (subject to availability of funds):
At the end of the fellowship the fellow must provide:
The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organization in the field of international academic co-operation. Founded in 1925, the DAAD is the world's largest funding organization for the students and researchers. Its members are German institutions of Higher Education as well as student bodies. Its activities include the awarding of grants and scholarship but also the internationalization of German universities, the promotion of German studies and language abroad, and assisting and advising decision-makers in developing countries on establishing effective universities as well as on matters of education and development policy.
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