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Worldwide - 2009 / 2010 OFID Scholarship Award

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OFID (The OPEC Fund for International Development) is pleased to announce that qualified undergraduate students are welcome to apply for the OFID Scholarship 2009/10. The OFID Scholarship will be awarded to support an undergraduate student from any developing country, to pursue higher education in a relevant field of development, in any recognized university/college in the world. Through its scholarship scheme, OFID aims to help highly motivated, highly driven individuals overcome one of the biggest challenges to their careers – the cost of advanced professional or graduate training. The winner of the OFID Award will receive a scholarship of up to US$100,000 The funds will be spread over a maximum of two years, toward the completion of a Master’s degree, or its equivalent, at an accredited educational institution, starting in the autumn of the academic year 2009/10.

Eligibility
To be eligible the candidate must meet ALL of the following criteria: :

• Must be between the ages of 23-32 at the time of submitting his/her application.
• Must be a graduating student with a Baccalaureate from a four-year, accredited college/university, or its equivalent.
• Must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 rating system, or its equivalent.
• Must be matriculated at an accredited university for the upcoming academic year starting September 2009, and must maintain full-time status for the duration of the Masters Degree.
• Must be a national of a developing country (please see list of eligible countries)
• Must select a subject of study that pertains to OFID’s core mission, such as: economics of development (poverty reduction, energy and sustainable development), environment (desertification), or other related science and technology fields.

Continue Reading November 18th, 2008

Worldwide - 2008 Nicodemus Wilderness Project Apprentice Ecologist Initiative Scholarships

The Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™ (officially recognized by the U.S. EPA) has engaged thousands of young people (kids, teens, and college-age youth) from around the world in environmental cleanup and conservation projects. View recent Apprentice Ecologist Projects and the winners of the Apprentice Ecologist Awards.

The goals of the Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™ are to:

• Elevate youth into leadership roles by engaging them in environmental cleanup and conservation projects
• Empower young volunteers to rebuild the environmental and social well-being of our communities
• Improve local living conditions for both citizens and wildlife through education, activism, and action

Here’s how to become an Apprentice Ecologist (see project and essay tips at bottom of page):
Option I (Trash Cleanup-Stop Pollution)

• Plan a trash cleanup project of a mountain, river, shoreline, beach, park, or wilderness area with help from family, friends, or teachers.
• Remove/recycle trash from the area and take high-resolution digital photos of your project in action.

Option II (Native Tree Planting-Stop Global Warming)

• Plan a native tree planting project in your yard, neighborhood, school, park, or other natural area. Get permission from any landowners and get native tree seedlings from a local nursery.
• Plant native trees and take high-resolution digital photos of your project in action.

Continue Reading June 19th, 2008

Worldwide - SEARCA PhD Research Scholarship in Agriculture

Launched in November 2005, the SEARCA PhD Research Scholarship provides financial support to a limited number of qualified PhD students whose researches are relevant to the priority thrusts of SEARCA.

This scholarship program aims to:

• Provide PhD students the opportunity to use the resources and facilities available at SEARCA and its network of universities for their research;
• Produce quality research papers for publication; and
• Enable them to work with SEARCA’s R&D personnel on mutually identified areas of concerns/interests in agriculture and rural development.

Eligibility for the Grant
Any graduate student who is a citizen of any SEAMEO member country and pursuing a PhD in agriculture or related sciences from any university in the world is eligible to apply for the scholarship.

The applicant must have already completed his/her course work with an approved dissertation proposal and is ready to conduct the dissertation research.

Continue Reading February 5th, 2008

Worldwide - Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program for Indonesian Student

Ford Foundation, sebuah lembaga nirlaba yang mengabdi untuk perdamaian dunia dan kesejahteraan umat manusia, telah meluncurkan International Fellowships Program (IFP). Secara garis besar, tujuan-tujuan Ford Foundation adalah memperkuat nilai-nilai demokratis, mengurangi kemiskinan dan ketidakadilan, mendukung kerjasama internasional, serta meningkatkan karya manusia.

Tujuan IFP adalah membantu orang yang memiliki potensi kepemimpinan untuk melanjutkan studi di program pascasarjana. Orang-orang tersebut merupakan anggota masyarakat yang terpinggirkan.

Di Indonesia IFP dikelola oleh The Indonesian International Education Foundation (IIEF), sebuah lembaga pendidikan nirlaba yang bergerak di bidang pengembangan dan pertukaran pendidikan, serta pelatihan yang bertujuan menumbuhkan rasa saling pengertian antarbangsa.

Penerima beasiswa dapat mendaftarkan diri untuk belajar di perguruan tinggi di seluruh dunia. IFP akan membantu menempatkan mereka yang belum dapat menentukan universitas tujuan studi.

Continue Reading September 23rd, 2007

Worldwide - 2007 / 2008 e8 Master and Post-Doctoral Scholarships in Sustainable Energy Development

Established in 2001 to support outstanding students in advanced studies of sustainable energy development , the e8 Scholarship Programme offers two-year scholarships to Masters and Post-Doctoral students.

What is the purpose of the e8 scholarship?
The purpose of the e8 scholarship is to support outstanding students pursuing advanced studies in sustainable energy development and to encourage meaningful contributions to the collective body of knowledge about this subject.

The e8 considers an outstanding student to be one

• who graduates with excellent grades in the top 20% of her/his class
• who is determined to advance her/his knowledge and understanding
• who has a history of community involvement
• who is committed to sustainable energy
• who is committed to return and contribute to her/his home country

Who is eligible?
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, students must

• plan to undertake studies at the Masters level or Post-Doctoral level in areas directly related to sustainable energy development
• be citizens of the developing countries and territories identified for OECD official development aid in the DAC List of ODA Recipients effective as of 2006

What are the levels of financial assistance and the duration of the scholarships?
Scholarships of US$ 23,000 per year for up to two years are offered for Masters level students. Scholarships of US$ 30,000 per year for up to two years are offered for Post-Doctoral students. Up to two Post-Doc and ten Masters scholarships will be awarded annually.

How can I apply?
Information and the application form can be obtained online by clicking on this link to the Application Forms page or from the e8 General Secretariat, 1155 Metcalfe Street, Suite 1120, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 2V6, Canada, or +1 (514) 392-8876 (tel), +1 (514) 392-8900 (fax) or by e-mail.

Applications for the Post-Doctoral programme must be received by the e8 General Secretariat by December 1st, 2006. Applications for the Masters programme must be received by March 23, 2007.

Click here for more information about the application details.
Download application forms

September 10th, 2007

UK - University of Leeds Postdoctoral Research Associate in Electronic and Electrical Engineering Projects

Postdoctoral Research Associate to work across multiple projects: PHOSPHOROUS, VESEL, TINA and HIPNet

The School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is a world-class research environment that excels in teaching and is rated 5* in the UK Government’s Research Assessment Exercise.

You will contribute to multiple projects within a unified theme of network architecture and protocols. Within PHOSPHOROUS you will help formulate failure/disaster recovery protocols that optimize the network (and service) availability defined as the probability that the network/service will be found operational at a random point in the future. You will also engage in other grid enabled network architecture and protocol design within PHOSPHOROUS. Within VESEL you will contribute to the design and implementation of sensor networks and their cross layer optimisation. Within TINA you will contribute to RFID networks design, flow modelling in an airport scenario and self-organising network design. Within HIPNet you will contribute to traffic modelling, end-to-end QoS modelling and protection and restoration strategies.

This post is fixed term until September 2009.

University Grade 6 (£22,332 – £26,666 p.a.), University Grade 7 (£27,466 - £32,796 p.a.) or University Grade 8 (£33,779 - £40,335 p.a.)

Informal enquiries to Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani, j.m.h.elmirghani@leeds.ac.uk

To apply on line please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk and click on ‘jobs’. Alternatively application packs are available via email recruitment@adm.leeds.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)113 343 5771.

Job ref 317081 Closing date 3 September 2007

August 9th, 2007

Worldwide - 2007 / 2008 Third Millenium Foundation Human Rights Fellowships

Grant and Application Information for Third Millennium
Foundation Human Rights Fellowships 2007-08

Program Description
The Third Millennium Foundation (TMF) established its Human Rights Fellowships in 2004 in order to support young social entrepreneurs to become human rights leaders. The TMF Human Rights Fellowships provide financial support for one year to recently graduated undergraduate and graduate students to spend six months interning with a NGO in the Global North and six months with an NGO in the Global South. Preference is given to work with a grassroots organization. One of the NGOs should be located in the country where the fellow intends to pursue her/his professional career.

Although they were originally designed to provide support to recently graduated students in the United States and Europe, this focus has now expanded. Beginning in 2007, the TMF Human Rights Fellowships will take a further step toward TMF’s global commitment by soliciting applications from candidates in the Global South in addition to the Global North.

Through the unique design of this program, TMF Human Rights Fellows are not only able to gain valuable experiences in human rights, they are also able to help build the capacity of local, national, and international NGOs. The program builds North-South networks, collaborations, and friendships and provides young leaders frontline experience in human rights advocacy. By relying on solicitations from partner universities throughout the world, the TMF Fellowships further strengthen the relationships between on-the-ground human rights work and academia.

Each Fellowship carries a stipend of US$24,000 for the full year, with the possibility of a supplement for exceptionally high travel or accommodation costs.

Overview of the Program
The TMF Human Rights Fellowships are administered by the Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) at Columbia University. TMF and CSHR work with partner universities in the Global North and Global South to solicit applications. The listing of partner universities will be updated periodically. Applicants not affiliated with a partner university are welcome to apply. Candidates interested in applying should review the application guidelines below and submit their application by email to hrfellowship@tmf-tolerance.org by January 26, 2007.

Continue Reading 6 comments December 30th, 2006

Worldwide - 2007 / 2008 ISOPE Offshore Mechanics and Polar Engineering Scholarship

The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) encourages college graduate students to study and/or to engage in research in the field of Offshore Mechanics. For this purpose, each year the ISOPE will provide Offshore Mechanics Scholarships for Outstanding Students dependent upon available funds.

History
Offshore Mechanics Scholarship for Outstanding Students was established on August 12, 1989 by Offshore Mechanics and Polar Engineering Council (OMPEC), a non-profit organization, approved by Internal Revenue Services under Code 501(c)(3) from the US Federal government agency. Upon the establishment of ISOPE, the scholarship was cosponsored by both OMPEC and ISOPE until 1994. Upon the OMPEC merger with ISOPE in 1995, the scholarship has been administered by ISOPE.

Guidelines and Selection Procedure (August 12, 1989)

• Guidelines and Requirements: Each scholarship offered is a competitive one. Sex, race, age, religion, nationality, etc. are not factors for consideration. However, a student’s deed is one of the factors for consideration.

Continue Reading 1 comment December 24th, 2006

Worldwide - 2006/2007 e8 Master and Post-Doctoral Scholarships in Sustainable Energy Development

Established in 2001 to support outstanding students in advanced studies of sustainable energy development , the e8 Scholarship Programme offers two-year scholarships to Masters and Post-Doctoral students.

What is the purpose of the e8 scholarship?
The purpose of the e8 scholarship is to support outstanding students pursuing advanced studies in sustainable energy development and to encourage meaningful contributions to the collective body of knowledge about this subject.

The e8 considers an outstanding student to be one

• who graduates with excellent grades in the top 20% of her/his class
• who is determined to advance her/his knowledge and understanding
• who has a history of community involvement
• who is committed to sustainable energy
• who is committed to return and contribute to her/his home country

Continue Reading 7 comments December 6th, 2006

Worldwide - iLiberty 2006 Fall Essay Contest

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
“There oughta be a law!” Every day, politicians and policymakers propose new legislation designed to make society a better place and make us better people. iLiberty.org challenges students to think about the ways such laws affect our behavior in both predictable and unexpected ways.

ESSAY QUESTION
All policies have consequences. When the government enacts a new regulation, mandate, or ban, legislators and advocates have in mind a particular set of consequences that they hope to achieve. However, in many cases, legislation brings other consequences that were neither intended nor desired by those who supported the law. And sometimes, laws don’t even achieve the goals they were meant to bring about.

When evaluating legislation, we must consider both whether the legislation achieves its intended goals and what unintended consequences it may cause. Thinking about unintended consequences is especially important for laws designed to influence people’s behavior in their personal lives because individuals may react in unpredictable ways.

Continue Reading 1 comment November 17th, 2006