Info For Yous Daad / Nrf In-Country Scholarships Inwards Due South Africa For Masters In Addition To Doctoral Students

DAAD / NRF In-Country Scholarships

Course(s) Offered: Sciences, Technology, Social sciences, Engineering
Course Level: Graduate (masters, phd)
Provider: DAAD, NRF
Country to Study in: South Africa

Scholarship Description
The High German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) inwards partnership amongst the National Research Foundation (NRF) is able to offering scholarships for postgraduate studies at South African universities.

These DAAD / NRF In-Country Scholarships are a percentage of the “In-Country Scholarship Programme” inwards which to a greater extent than than 2 dozen African universities too academy networks participate too which annually supports to a greater extent than or less 800 African postgraduates.

The scholarship is aimed at academy staff evolution inwards the get-go instance, without neglecting other sector demands for academically trained personnel.

Eligibility
Eligibility criteria include:

• Applicants must survive South African citizens or concur permanent residence status inwards South Africa (in the latter case, both certified proof of academy work too residency must survive provided). Applicants from tertiary countries are eligible solely for PhD programmes too nether the status that they are employed at the academy where the PhD is to survive pursued.
• Applicants must guide maintain obtained an accumulative marking average of 65% too inwards a higher house to survive considered.
• Female candidates too those belonging to historically disadvantaged groups are peculiarly encouraged to apply.
• An historic flow boundary of 36 years at the fourth dimension of application applies.
• Applicants may come upward from all those fields of study that guide maintain a potent relevance to the national evolution of the country. Fields include: the natural sciences, mathematics, ICT, engineering, agricultural sciences, applied social sciences. Humanities too fine arts are excluded from this programme. However, Humanities applications may survive considered if the inquiry has a social focus.
• Applicants who already concur a qualification for the bird of funding they are applying for are non eligible.
• Scholarships-holders are allowed to concur supplementary bursaries, grants or emoluments which may survive capped inwards trouble amongst academy policies.
• The scholarship may non survive held simultaneously amongst a bursary/scholarship from whatsoever other NRF source, NRF administered rootage or other authorities sources without prior NRF/ DAAD permission.
• If the applicant does have supplementary funding during the duration of the scholarship, this has to survive declared to the NRF/ DAAD.
• Scholarship-holders may non concur full-time salaried work during the duration of the scholarship. They volition survive allowed to undertake a maximum of 12 hours of teaching, tutorials, assistance or demonstration duties per calendar week on average.
• University staff fellow member applying into the programme volition guide maintain to render a supporting alphabetic lineament from their human resources subdivision clearly indicating their working hours too status of work during the tenure of the award.

Eligible groups
Citizens of South Africa too tertiary countries.

Target Group are immature too ascent candidates who aim at acquiring a master’s or doctoral degree. Preference volition survive given to full-time registered immature South Africans too permanent residents. University staff-members studying towards a doctoral qualification volition also survive considered. Staff members should survive enrolled for full-time studies too survive exempted from teaching. In particular cases, a express extent of didactics obligations may survive accepted but has to survive motivated inwards writing.

Participating Institution(s)
All accredited South African universities

Fields of study
Masters too doctoral study inwards the natural sciences, mathematics, ICT, engineering, agricultural sciences, applied social sciences

Number of Awards
Up to 100 scholarships (new awards) are offered for Master’s too Doctoral studies

Sponsorship duration
The scholarships are designed for full-time two-year Master’s courses or three-year doctoral degree studies. Note that initial accolade is for ane twelvemonth only. For extensions of the accolade an annual progress written report volition guide maintain to survive completed yesteryear the supervisor of the proposed inquiry too submitted to the NRF via the academy fiscal aid/ postal service graduate/ inquiry office.

Scholarship benefits
Scholarship values are ZAR 60,000.00 p.a. (for Master’s courses) too ZAR 90,000.00 p.a. (for PhD bird studies).

Short-term inquiry scholarships (2 - half dozen months) tenable at a High German university:
In selected cases, the scholarship-holder may apply for a short-term research fellowship (duration 2-6 months) inwards Deutschland where parts of the thesis-related inquiry would significantly make from this inquiry take in because of required equipment, co-supervision or like reasons.

The applicant volition guide maintain to introduce a electrical flow invitation yesteryear a High German professor who is willing to supervise the inquiry during the envisaged remain inwards Germany, equally good a convincing alphabetic lineament of motivation too a clearly defined fourth dimension schedule for the inquiry stay.

Application forms for these short-term inquiry fellowships too farther data tin dismiss survive obtained from:
http://ic.daad.de/johannesburg/scholarships.htm

Method of Application
Applications must survive submitted through an online application procedure of the NRF. Applicants tin dismiss apply for the DAAD/NRF Joint In-Country Scholarship Programme yesteryear accessing the link: https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za/. All required documents must survive attached equally ane PDF file inwards the next order: Identity document, proof of permanent residence too academy work alphabetic lineament (if applicable), certified academy bird certificates too transcripts, recommendation yesteryear supervisor (compulsory for doctoral applicants) alphabetic lineament of admission (if available) too whatsoever reference letters (if available).

It is of import to take in the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data on how to apply for this scholarship.

DEADLINES:
Applications opened upward Thursday, twenty August, 2015 too unopen Wednesday, xvi September, 2015. No slow submissions of applications volition survive considered.

PLEASE NOTE:
Applications that do non meet the eligibility criteria volition non survive considered (please refer to funding manual too telephone telephone document for details on eligibility of the DAAD-NRF In-Country Scholarship programmes). Complete applications volition larn to the host academy for verification earlier existence forwarded to the NRF for farther processing. Incomplete applications volition non survive considered.

The programme is co-funded yesteryear the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation too Development (BMZ) too the National Research Foundation (NRF).

Please contact the academy postgraduate percentage or inquiry percentage if you lot guide maintain whatsoever queries.

Application Deadline: xvi September 2015
Open for International Students: Yes

More Scholarship Information too Application

Related: List of Scholarships inwards South Africa for Students

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