🇮🇪 The award covers programme fees, flights, accommodation and living costs. Eligible master’s level programmes in Ireland commence in August or September each year and, depending on the programme, will run for between 10 and 16 months.
Ireland Fellows Programme – Africa
The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded one-year master’s level programme at a higher education institution (HEI) in Ireland.
The Programme welcomes applications from applicants with disabilities, and applicants who belong to a minority or disadvantaged group. We would like to increase the representation of female applicants and those whose gender identity does not align with the male/female gender binary.
Eligible Countries:
AngolaBurundiDemocratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti EritreaEswatini Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Liberia Malawi Mozambique Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Eligible Courses:
Eligible courses are in areas such as agriculture, health, education, human rights, computer science, engineering, business and more, and which are listed here https://lnkd.in/g3Xmi-gc
There are different ways that different countries will apply with. And most countries have another scholarship type that they can apply to apart from this fellowship which you will see as “For Nigeria, please see both this document and the “Roger Casement Fellowship” page. “
How to apply
Very simple for some countries, (Nigeria , Ghana, Angola, Lesotho, Zimbabwe , Namibia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Tanzania) just follow the process below in the pdf.
1: Provide the requested documents and scan it , download and fill the application form and send to relevant email address.
Please download and read this
https://lnkd.in/grtpaMvd
This pdf above ⬆️ has detailed requirements, process to apply.
Applications are by invitation only in the following countries: Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Eritrea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia. This means that fellowships in these countries are restricted to the staff of government departments and NGOs which work in partnership with Irish Aid, and to personnel of organizations that are aligned with Irish Aid’s development strategy in their country which have already been identified by the Embassy of Ireland.
