A. IFRA'S SUPPORT

 

IFRA regularly supports junior researchers to carry out their fieldwork in East Africa as part of their PhD or Master degrees. The institut welcomes more specifically students in social sciences and humanities (history, geography, sociology, anthropology ...) and political sciences.

 

MASTERS: IFRA may support students conducting a short-term fieldwork or doing an internship as part of their Master's. It can host students in its offices and occasionally provide financial support. For any request, kindly sent us your curriculum vitae/resume and research project (no more than 4 pages) pertaining to IFRA's main research themes. Application deadline: December, 1 2011 for a fieldwork or an internship in 2012. 2011 candidates have already been selected.

 

DOCTORATE: IFRA may support PhD or prospective PhD students with 9-month grants, renewable one.

 

B. GRANTS FROM FRENCH EMBASSIES

 

The grants proposed by the French Embassies in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are given to East African students to allow them to acquire a doctorate from a French University. These grants target Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan students or senior executives who hold a Masters degree.

 

- Kenya

These grants from the French Embassy in Kenya concern PhD students only. It provides funding over a three-year period for three trips to France, each lasting three months. It also includes a fourth trip of one month to defend the thesis. It covers registration fees at the University as well as the cost of travel and stay.

 

- Tanzania

The French Embassy in Tanzania offers grants to Master or PhD Tanzanian students who present a coherent professional project and an admission to a French University.
For further information, (click here) or contact the Attaché for Science and Higher Education at the French Embassy in Tanzania.

 

- Uganda

The French Embassy in Uganda proposes different kinds of grants:

1) A high level scientific grant, generally allocated to a Ugandan researcher who works within the French and Ugandan inter-universities programmes.
2) Three social reserve grants in engineering to promote girls’ education. Opportunity for bilingual training in France.
3) 14 short-term linguistic and teaching grants for French Foreign Language teachers.
4) Two PhD grants (3 trips)

For more information, contact Ms Fanny Thery-Buchot, Cooperation Attachée for the French language at the French Embassy in Uganda : fanny.thery-buchot@diplomatie.gouv.fr (+256.41.342.120 / 342.176)