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Griffith University has five (5) partial tuition scholarships – covering tuition for a maximum of two semesters not in excess of AUD$1,500 per semester. The scholarships are on offer to students from South Africa commencing in January or July 2012. Applications will be assessed on academic merit, demonstrated leadership and personal character. Applications close on 9 December 2011. Applications should be sent directly to Griffith International.

DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, in association with AIMS, provides five in-region PhD scholarships for a PhD programme in Mathematical Sciences at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, in South Africa. These scholarship are available to students wishing to commence a PhD programme at a South African University. Funds awarded by the scholarship must be used towards covering the costs of tuition fees, living expenses, medical insurance, books, stationery, research literature expenses, study permit and research.

Students who are granted an official nomination by their institution’s President and admitted to IIT are considered by IIT’s scholarship committee for the Presidential Scholarship. Recipients of the Presidential Scholarship receive: $23,500 annual tuition scholarship award $5,000 annual housing scholarship award to support on-campus residence at the university Up to $5,000 stipend for undergraduate research through IIT’s Undergraduate Research Scholars Program† *Presidential Scholars are asked to maintain a commitment to STEM+ community outreach each academic year that engage and bridge their home and sending communities with the communities at the university, in the IIT/Bronzeville neighborhood, and the city of Chicago. Additionally, recipients of the Presidential Scholarship must maintain full-time enrollment and make satisfactory academic progress. † Consideration for the $5,000 Research Stipend requires the completion of additional paperwork and is dependent on availability. Please see Undergraduate Research Scholars Program for more information.

A full-time postgraduate scholarship is available for a suitably qualified candidate with a good honours degree in science or engineering to undertake research studies leading to a PhD in Smart Grids.The project is to investigate energy management at the residential level. The project aims at developing scalable control architectures to enable seamless integration of distributed energy resources at the residential level in a plug-and-play manner so they can play active role in power system operation. By unleashing the potential of the demand side, the developed algorithms will enable to transformation of conventional demand driven power systems to future generation driven power systems, dominated by intermittent renewable energy sources.

Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) provides Scholarship for students from developing countries who are currently studying in South Africa at the University of Pretoria or the University of Cape Town- 2012-2013. South Africa Grants for the Academic Year 2013 For students from developing countries who are currently studying in South Africa at the University of Pretoria or the University of Cape Town. MMMF awards grants of approximately US$4,000 each.

University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), the Government of India (DBT), and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) provide Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarship in Life Sciences, Public Health, Agriculture, and Engineering for USA Citizens to study in India. The Khorana Program offers opportunities for students (graduate and undergraduate) from U.S. universities to pursue a summer of research in India.Students will be matched with mentors in India based on research interests. Opportunities are available to spend a summer at an academic institution, NGO, or private company in India. Please view the list of partner institutions in India. The names of faculty members who have mentored prior Khorana Scholars are also listed.

TWAS and the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India have agreed to offer five fellowships annually to young foreign scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research leading towards a PhD in physical sciences, India. TWAS and the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India have agreed to offer five fellowships annually to young foreign scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research leading towards a PhD in physical sciences. Applicants should be aware that they can apply for only one fellowship per year. With the exception of the fellowships “for research collaboration”, all other fellowship programmes offered by TWAS and TWOWS that are mutually exclusive.

The Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) offers a 2012 International Doctoral Program In Informatics Graduate School Of Informatics at Kyoto University for admitted Ph.D. course students who wish to engage in research on Informatics, mainly in English, at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. The Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, consists of the following departments: Intelligence Science and Technology, Social Informatics, Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems, Applied Mathematics and Physics, Systems Science, Communications and Computer Engineering.

The UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowships Programme (UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowship Programme) funded under the Japanese Funds-in-Trust for the capacity-building of Human Resources will aim, in particular, to impact on capacity-building and research activities in the following areas: Environment (with particular attention to Water Sciences); Intercultural Dialogue; Information and Communication Technologies; and Peaceful conflict resolution. No other research topics will be considered.

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, and TWAS offer one fellowship per year to young scientists from developing countries (other than Kenya) who wish to undertake their postdoctoral studies in Kenya. The following is additional information concerning the TWAS-icipe Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme tenable in Kenya. It is an integral part of the information given here: TWAS Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research.