2025 Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (Fully Funded)
Deadline: February 28, 2025. The JJ/WBGSP is open to citizens of certain developing countries with relevant professional experience and a history of supporting their countries’ development efforts who are applying to a master's degree program in a development-related topic. Subject to available funding, JJ/WBGSP offers scholarships for 41 Participating Master’s Programs in 24 universities in the U.S., Europe, Africa, Oceania and Japan in key areas of development, including economic policy management, tax policy, and infrastructure management. ELIGIBILITY
2025 ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants
Deadline: March 30, 2025. ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s doctoral studies. They suggest monthly meetings and clearly defined goals of the project, e.g., presentation at a conference, joint publication. ETH mentors are free to serve on the doctoral committee
2025 JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (Fully Funded)
Deadline: January 31, 2025. UNU offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to provide young scholars and policymakers, especially from the developing world, with a multidisciplinary context within which to pursue advanced research and training that are of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected thematic programme. Since the start of the Fellowship Programme at UNU-IAS in 1996, more than 250 young researchers – 70% of whom are
2025 Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship (Fully Funded)
Deadline: March 4, 2025. The Chevening Western Balkans Cyber Security Fellowship is aimed at mid-career professionals with demonstrable leadership potential in the field of cyber security or cyber policy in the Western Balkans. The fellowship is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The fellowship is delivered at Cranfield University, at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Shrivenham Campus). The fellowship will focus on: Cyber threats, including: the threat landscape, threat and risk assessment, the implications
2025 Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award (€25,000 Prize)
Deadline: February 18, 2025. Are you a women-led enterprise building sustainable solutions in health or food security? This is your moment! Across Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, we’re seeking 15 women who are ready to scale their ideas and create sustainable change. If you’re working on innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges in health and food security, now is the time to take your business to the next
2025 ACEP Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program (Fully Funded)
Deadline: February 2, 2025. The Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program is an internship that intends to balance a dose of theory with real-world application and equip participants with the requisite multi-disciplinary intellectual development, practical skills, and research abilities to think in more innovative ways to solve complex governance challenges. The Program is also a strategy to build a pipeline of young pan-African leaders to provide a sustainable path for good governance. RESPONSIBILITIES NextGen Leaders will