UK registered higher or further education institutions, research technology research organisations (RTOs) or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £2 million to help fund an innovation project with another knowledge base and a business partner registered in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya or South Africa.

To lead a project your organisation must:

• be a UK registered higher education or further education institution, RTO or Catapult
• collaborate with another knowledge base partner and a business partner, both based in one of Republic of Ghana, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Republic of Kenya or Republic of South Africa.

Switzerland’s federal technology institute EPFL is welcoming the first round of applications for a programme to train 100 African PhDs. 

Lausanne-based EPFL is offering the fellowships as part of its Excellence in Africa Initiative (EXAF).

Successful fellows will complete their PhDs at an African institution, but have the option to spend short periods in Lausanne or at Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, which co-hosts the EXAF programme.  

They will have two supervisors—one at their home institution and another at EPFL. 

The fellowships are offered in EPFL’s research focus areas, which range from biomedical imaging to space science. Applications are open for science and engineering graduates who are African nationals and who were awarded a master’s degree after 1 January 2018. 

They need the endorsement of a supervisor in the African country where they want to be based for their PhD. 

Successful applicants will get 80,000 Swiss francs (US$86,000) to cover a maximum period of 54 months. This funding can cover living expenses, tuition fees, research costs, travel and conference costs, and costs related to joint supervision.  

The deadline for applications is 20 April. Funding decisions will be announced in September.

- See more at: https://www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/africa/pan-african/2021/3/swiss-institute-offers-100-phd-scholarships-for-africans.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rpMailing&utm_campaign=personalNewsDailyUpdate_2021-03-11#sthash.p4Wj725I.dpuf

We are looking for papers from any discipline that engage in creative and insightful ways with the idea of mobility in Senegambian studies and in the Senegambian region (broadly understood to include not just Senegal and the Gambia but also Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry and parts of Mali and Mauritania).  We accept proposals both for individual paper submissions as well as for fully formed panels of no more than three papers (Note: not sure about this—I guess we need to discuss the parameters over email).

Please email paper proposals of no more than 250 words to Niklas Hultin (ihultin@gmu.edu), Babacar M’Baye (bmbaye@kent.edu), and Mariame Iyane Sy (sms2168@columbia.edu)  no later than April 10, 2021. Accepted presenters will be notified by May 10, 2021.

Scholars from the humanities, developmental and social sciences, among others, are hereby invited to

join in this comprehensive investigation of the history of Nigeria’s economic development since the

1800s, guided by the subthemes below.

PERIODS AND SUBTHEMES

a. Pre-1900: West Coast of Africa. How people lived and survived in that environment before 1900

b. 1900—1914 (From Colonization to Amalgamation)

c. 1914—January 1970 (From Amalgamation to End of the Civil war)

d. 1970—1985 (From End of the Civil War to End of National Planning Scheme)

e. 1985—2000 (Trial-and-Error Policies & Primitive Accumulation of Wealth)

f. 2000-2021 (Nigeria’s Economy in the New Millennium)

For more information:

Project Coordinators

Prof. Egodi Uchendu                  Prof. Sati Fwatshak

egodi.uchendu@unn.edu.ng      sfwatshak@gmail.com

www.egodiuchendu.com           unijos.academia.edu/SATIFWATSHAK