Apply For ABEM Postgraduate Scholarships

The African Biomedical Engineering Mobility (ABEM) project is funded by the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission.

The scheme is modelled on Europe’s well-established and successful Erasmus-Mundus programme. As part of the Roadmap 2014-2017 of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy, the Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme underlines the contribution of higher education towards economic and social development and the potential of academic mobility to improve the quality of higher education.

ABEM will build human and institutional capacity in Africa for needs-­based health technology research and development. The project will train postgraduate students with skills and specialisations not offered at their home institutions.

Furthermore, it will support the development of biomedical engineering programmes that are being established, or have recently been established, at partner institutions and contribute toward harmonising biomedical engineering curricula across the continent.

This will be achieved through the provision of scholarships to cover the full cost of mobility between African higher education institutions.

Overall, the project will enhance employment opportunities for graduates, enhance staff research profiles and teaching competencies, enhance institutional research profiles and inter-­university cooperation, and support the development of solutions for health challenges from an African perspective.

Mobilities.

• Master’s degree-seeking mobility for women only:
  Host universities: Kenyatta University and Addis Ababa University
  Home universities: any of the partner universities (i.e. Target Group 1 only)
• Master’s credit-seeking mobility for women only:
  Host universities: Kenyatta University and Addis Ababa University
  Home universities: any African university (i.e. Target Group 1 and Target Group 2)
• PhD credit-seeking mobility for women and men:
  Host universities: Kenyatta University and Cairo University
  Home universities: any African university (i.e. Target Group 1 and Target Group 2)
• Staff mobility for women and men:
  Host universities: Partner universities excluding the University of Cape Town
  Home universities: All partner universities

Benefits.

The ABEM individual scholarships cover one roundtrip flight ticket, visa costs, participation costs (which may include tuition fees, registration fees and service fees), comprehensive insurance coverage (health, accident and travel) and a monthly subsistence allowance from which scholarship recipients are to cover accommodation expenses.

The monthly subsistence allowance is calculated per mobility option (and can be viewed under ”˜Scholarship Information and guidelines’).

Eligibility.

To be eligible for the scholarship, masters and doctoral students must:

• Must be a national and/ or resident of an eligible country.
• At the time of the application for a scholarship, be registered/admitted in their final year or have obtained their most recent degree (or equivalent) from:
  • 1. one of the higher education institutions included in the partnership (Target Group 1);
    or
  • 2. a higher education institution not included in the partnership but established in an eligible country (Target Group 2)
• Have sufficient knowledge of the language of instruction in the host institution.
• Meet the specific requirements of the host institution.

For staff to be eligible for ABEM scholarships, they need to comply with the following criteria:

• Be a national and resident in any of the eligible countries.
• Work in or be associated with a partner higher education institution.
• Have sufficient knowledge of the operational language in the host institution.

Partner Institutions.

• Kenyatta University (coordinating partner)
• Addis Ababa University
• Cairo University
• Mbarara University of Science and Technology
• University of Cape Town
• University of Cape Town
• University of Lagos

Target Groups.

Target Group 1 refers to students registered at or staff employed by one of the ABEM partners. i.e. Kenyatta University (Kenya), Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Cairo University (Egypt), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Uganda), the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the University of Lagos (Nigeria).

Target Group 2 refers to students registered in or having obtained a degree from a higher education institution not included in the partnership but established in an eligible country (see below).

Regions of Africa	Countries
Central	Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé and Principe
Eastern	Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania
Northern	Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco
Southern	Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Western	Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo

Method of Application

Interested candidates who meet the criteria listed above should apply by clicking “here

Apply Before: 29th January, 2019.