Deadline: |
October 31, 2018.
Location: |
Japan.
(Fully Funded)
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Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) Program
Applications are open for the AfDB Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) Program 2018/2019. The JADS Program is a joint initiative by the AfDB and Japan that aims at providing two-year scholarship awards to highly achieving African graduate students to enable them to undergo post-graduate studies in priority development areas on the continent and abroad (including in Japan).
The overarching goal that the AfDB and the Government of Japan seeks to attain is to enhance skills and human resources development in Africa in a number of priority areas pertaining to science and technology with a special focus on the energy sector.
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The JADS program uses the following four main factors and the degree of cohesion, to review eligible scholarship applications, with the aim of identifying the candidates with the highest potential, after completion of their graduate studies, to impact the development of their countries.
- Quality of Education Background
- Quality of Professional Recommendations
- Quality of Professional Experience
- Quality of Commitment to your Home Country
- Quality of Statement of Purpose
Opportunity Focus Areas:
- Science.
- Technology.
- Energy sector.
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English.
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EGYPT, ALGERIA, TUNISIA, MOROCCO, SUDAN, LIBYA, DJIBOUTI, MAURITANIA, COMOROS, & OTHER COUNTRIES ARE NOT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA.
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Two years.
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Broadly speaking, nationals of African countries must:
- Be a national of a AfDB member country;
- Be in good health;
- Be 35 years old or younger;
- Hold a Bachelor (or equivalent) degree in the energy area (or related field) earned at least 1 years prior to the application deadline date;
- Have 1 years or more of recent development-related experience after earning a Bachelor (or equivalent) degree;
- Be accepted unconditionally to enroll in the upcoming academic year in at least one of the JADS partner universities for a Master’s degree;
- Not be living or working in a country other than his or her home country;
- already enrolled in graduate degree programs;
- Not be an Executive Director, his/her alternate, and/or staff of all types of appointments of the African Development Bank Group or a close relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption with the term “close relative” defined as: Mother, Father, Sister, Half-sister, Brother, Half-brother, Son, Daughter, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, or Nephew.
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(Fully Funded)
The JADS Scholarship provides the recipient with the following benefits:
- Economy class air travel between your home country and the host university at the start of the study program and immediately following the end of the scholarship period
- Tuition for a graduate program and the cost of basic medical insurance usually obtained through the university
- A monthly subsistence allowance to cover living expenses, including books
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First Step: Applicant should completes JADS application form
Second Step: Applicant should send documents (application form, university transcripts and certificate, CV, professional references and research proposal), to the JADS Secretariat for first screening through ([email protected])
Third Step: JADS Secretariat sends shortlist of candidates to selected Japanese universities
Fourth Step: Universities does second screening and share selected students with JADS Secretariat
Fifth Step: JADS Secretariat recommends awardees based on its selection criteria to the Japanese Executive Director for approval.
Sixth Step: AfDB contacts selected awardees, and informs partner universities.
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This Scholarship Published by:
“Alyaa Abdelraouf/ Egypt“Reviewed by” Alaa Faramawy/ Egypt ”
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