Deadline: April 20 2021
The UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs for Africa programme is one of the three pillars of the Excellence in Africa initiative. It is designed to fund science and engineering graduates intending to complete a PhD at an African higher education institution.
About the PhD Programme
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have jointly launched the Excellence in Africa (EXAF) initiative to support the training of professors and doctoral candidates in Africa. PhD candidates benefitting from the programme will be jointly supervised by a professor employed by their home institution and an EPFL professor. They may spend short time periods at the EPFL in the laboratory of their EPFL co-supervisor, but will chiefly conduct their doctoral studies and their thesis research at their home institution. Their degree is going to be awarded by their home institution.
A first call for proposals is now open for PhD projects in all disciplines that are taught at EPFL within its doctoral school. The programme is open to science and engineering graduates who have an outstanding academic track record and wish to complete a PhD at an African higher education institution. Applicants must prepare their application based on these application instructions and submit it before the deadline of this call for proposals, which is 20 April 2021 (17:00 CET).
Female researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.
Eligibility
- To be a national of an African country
- To hold a Master’s degree awarded after the 1st of January 2018 or to be enrolled in the final year of the master study
- To have an outstanding academic track record
- To be enrolled in an African academic institution when the fellowship will start, and to reside in an African country for the duration of the PhD
- To have the endorsement of a professor of an African institution willing to supervise the doctoral thesis for its full duration
Benefits
The programme awards funding of a maximum of 80’000 Swiss francs in total for a period of at most 54 months. Eligible costs include and are limited to:
- Living allowance
- A living allowance for the PhD fellow, which must be in line with the standard documented practices of the home institution
- Tuition fees
- Tuition costs may be included in the budget if there is written confirmation from the home institution that tuition fees apply for all PhD candidates
- Research costs
- Consumables and direct costs for the use of infrastructure at the home institution or at EPFL
- Open science costs: costs for data storage and for granting access to data (open research data) and open access publication costs
- Colloquia
- Conference, summer school and workshop costs for the PhD fellow, namely travel (economy class airfares, public ground transportation), lodging, visa, vaccinations, meals, and (if applicable) conference registration fees
- During the fellowship, the PhD fellow must participate in two summer schools organised by UM6P at Ben Guerir Campus in Morocco. Travel costs for these summer schools will also have to be included
- Costs related to joint supervision
- Travel costs for the PhD fellow to and from EPFL (economy class airfares, public ground transportation)
- A supplementary living allowance for stay(s) at EPFL
- Travel costs to and from the African home institution and EPFL for the supervisor and co-supervisor of the PhD fellow (economy class airfares, public ground transportation, lodging, and meals)
- Other costs incurred by the joint supervision (e.g., joint participation in a conference, other costs related to stays at EPFL)
Application
- Applicants must submit their application with all required documents via the on-line submission link below.
- Please read carefully the application guidelines.
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