Deadline: October 30, 2019.

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.

 

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for a scholarship, master’s and doctoral students must comply with the following criteria:

• Be a national and resident in any of the eligible countries covered by the Programme
• 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:
• 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)
• Have sufficient knowledge of the language of instruction in the host institution.
• Meet the specific requirements of the host institution.
• Students can only benefit from one scholarship under the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme.
• Students having benefited from scholarship(s) under the previous Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme cannot receive scholarships under the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme.

 

BENEFITS

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.

 

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