COTRA Call for Scholarships 2019

The EU under its Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, has provided funding to support training of graduate students in African universities. In this mobility programme five African partner institutions and one EU Technical partner will collaborate in the training of professionals to achieve sustainable fisheries management and aquaculture resources.

24 Masters (6 credit seeking, 18 degree-seeking) and 12 Doctorates (4 credit seeking, 8 degree-seeking)] will be trained in the thematic areas of Fisheries Management, Aquaculture, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Ichthyology, Zoology and Biology-: Hydrobiology.

In addition, 10 administrative staff will participate in a capacity building program mainly in areas of financial and international student management among others.

The project will provide full degree programs (PhDs and MSc) as well as short term mobility for students and staff and will run from 1st November 2017 until 31 October 2022. For Degree seeking mobility, the period of mobility will be for the duration of the programme while credit seeking mobility will be for a maximum period of 10 months.