Fully Funded African Biomedical Engineering Mobility Project Scholarship 2018

The African Biomedical Engineering Mobility (ABEM) project is open for master’s and doctoral students for 2018/2019 academic year.
The 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.
Worth of Award
The scholarship will cover:
• roundtrip flight ticket and visa costs;
• participation costs such as tuition fees, registration fees and service fees where applicable
• insurance (health, accident, travel);
• a settling-in allowance;
• a monthly subsistence allowance;
• a contribution towards the research costs associated with student mobility of 10 months or longer.
Eligibility
To be eligible for a scholarship, master’s and doctoral students must comply with the following criteria:
(a) Be a national of and resident in any of the eligible countries covered by the Programme (see Section 2.1)
(b) At the time of the application for a scholarship, be registered at or have obtained their most recent degree (or equivalent) from:
• one of the higher education institutions included in the partnership (Target Group 1);
or
• a higher education institution not included in the partnership but established in an eligible
country (Target Group 2) Students applying for PhD degree-seeking mobility, are expected to have obtained at least their bachelor’s degree in an eligible African country, from a different institution from the prospective host institution, and in a different country to that of the host institution.
(c) Have sufficient knowledge of the language of instruction in the host institution.
(d) Meet the specific requirements of the host institution.
Students can only benefit from one scholarship under the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme. Students having benefitted from scholarship(s) under the previous Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme cannot receive scholarships under the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme.
How to Apply