List of postdoctoral research fellowship 2025-2026 for African students to study in abroad or in Africa
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally co
Published: 15 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 May 2025
Are you a Ghanaian journalist eager to uncover how the country is losing money through illicit means? The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has an opportunity for you to make a difference. This three-month, fully funded residential program will equip 20 selected journalists w
Published: 15 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: 30 Apr 2025
Nigeria Health Watch invites early to mid-career professionals, researchers, and advocates to apply for the Science-Policy Communication Fellowship, a hands-on programme designed to equip participants with the skills needed to translate scientific research into impactful, policy-relevant commun
Published: 14 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 24 Apr 2025
Code for Africa (CfA) is offering four Media Sentinel Fellowships to frontline grassroots researchers with expertise in social media listening and analysis and with a good knowledge of social media cross-platform coordination and messaging on platforms such as Facebook, Telegram, What
Published: 11 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 07 May 2025
The AI and Tech Accountability Reporting Fellowship is a programme designed to support journalists and media professionals in investigating the role of artificial intelligence and technology in shaping public life. The fellowship provides funding, mentorship, and resources to help fellows
Published: 07 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 17 Apr 2025
This regional fellowship aims to build a new generation of journalists with the knowledge and skills to investigate and report on Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Public Goods (DPGs). The fellowship is inspired by a similar Co-Develop-funded initiative implemented by the Media Foundati
Published: 07 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 21 Apr 2025
Past Global Changes (PAGES) announces the Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program (African Mobility Fellowship) for African early-career scientists studying past global changes. The program aims to give limited support for travel and subsistence to early-career researchers from African
Published: 07 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Aug 2025
WFSA is offering scholarships for the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) 2026, made possible through generous donations from partner organisations and individuals The 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 15-19 April 2026. WC
Published: 02 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Morocco Deadline: 20 Apr 2025
Code for Africa (CfA), through the Digitalise Youth consortium, is offering two fellowships to mid-career professionals with experience in digital governance, policy and rights who want to make an impact in Africa’s AI landscape. Under this fellowship, chosen candidates will develop re
Published: 02 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo Deadline: 14 Apr 2025
The Digitalise Youth consortium, through Code for Africa (CfA), is offering six fellowships to technologists in Africa to work with human rights defending (HRD) organisations to assist them in rapidly scaling up their interventions through the savvy use of AI technology. The HRDs will be located in
Published: 01 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo Deadline: 14 Apr 2025
The YoLe Fellowship is a one-year programme that aims to empower young, innovative change-makers who have recently graduated from tertiary institutions in Ghana and positively impacting their communities. The programme provides training and mentorship on Leadership, Sustainable Development, Peace, H
Published: 01 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: 18 Apr 2025
In this call, NIERA invites policymakers from eligible countries in West and East Africa to apply for a 6-week fellowship aimed at enhancing their knowledge and skills in evidence-informed policymaking. The fellowship begins with a one-week online course focused on evidence-informed pol
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 07 May 2025
This new Fellowship programme, launched in September 2021, is run by Professor Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Biology, and her team in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science. It offers NGO, government and business employees working on bio
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Apr 2025
Code for Africa (CfA) is offering stipend?based fellowships to Six (6) African Wikipedians-in-Residence to empower youth voices and promote a secure digital space through Wikimedia projects. Fellows will amplify youth voices and increase their engagement in SDG 16, and civic technology by
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 28 Mar 2025
The call for nominations for the first edition of the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme for Young Women Scientists in Africa is now open. Globally, women make up only 33% of researchers (UNESCO Science Report 2021). The latest figures from the Institute for Statistics show that only 3
Published: 21 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Value: $50,000 Deadline: 31 Mar 2025
AHIF is a capacity strengthening initiative of InnovateHealth Africa (IHA) dedicated to fostering innovation in healthcare by empowering young professionals with the required skills, knowledge, resources and networks required to lead innovation in their communities. The fellowship was designed as a
Published: 21 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Mar 2025
The International Statistics and Epidemiology Partnership (ISEP) MSc in Medical Statistics Fellowship Scheme is for students from sub-Saharan Africa and comprises of one year of MSc study, followed by a year’s placement at one of ISEP’s partner research centres in Africa: MRC/UVRI &
Published: 19 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 31 Mar 2025
Established in 1963, the ODI fellowship scheme matches early career economists with government placements around the world. The ODI Fellowship Scheme gives early-career economists and statisticians the chance to work as public sector civil servants on two-year contracts in low- and middle-income co
Published: 14 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Value: £32,600 Deadline: 31 Mar 2025