The International Support Network for African Development (ISNAD-Africa) is accepting applications from students for mentoring for research work. ISNAD is committed to raising global and multi-stakeholder support for greener and climate-resilient Africa through a multidisciplinary network of various stakeholders.

ISNAD-Africa also secures fellowships and grant for the most outstanding students on the programme to participate in international training and conferences.

Opportunity in Asia: 2022 YSEALI Regional Workshop

Benefits

• One-to-one technical and thematic mentoring relationship on your research with a professional from world-class organisations
• Support by a mentor to structure your research to be innovative, problem-solving, practice-oriented, and carried out to meet global standards
• Support to communicate your research findings to relevant stakeholders in the global community. It will  create more visibility for your research work and career opportunities
• Also, Best-performing mentees will gain full funding to participate in the one-month residential UNEP/UNESCO/BMU International Short Course on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at the Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM) at the Technische Universität Dresden in Dresden, Germany.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be Masters/PhD students in universities in Africa countries
• should possess excellent research ideas aimed at solving a problem or an innovative approach on sustainable energy, environment, biodiversity or climate change
• In addition, applicants should plan to carry out their research in 2022. Also, students whose research programmes extend beyond 2022 are also eligible to apply and may have an extension till the completion of their research.
• Applications are welcome from students in any discipline provided their research is on sustainable energy, environment or climate change-based topics.
• In addition, new non-conventional research frontiers such as climate photography, environmental journalism, among others, will be of special interest.

Also, Click: Fully Funded 2022- Asian Development Bank (ADB) Visiting Fellow Program

Application Process

Qualified and interested applicants are invited to complete the online application here.

During the application stages, you should upload the following documents

• Motivation statement
• Research Concept Note
• Profile picture

Also, all documents should have names in the order: “Firstname_lastname_document type”