KU Leuven ‘s Specialization Grants: Supporting High-Quality & Innovative Research

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Deadline: 30 September 2016

KU Leuven is seeking applications for its Specialization Grants for researchers, offers a wide variety of international master’s programmes, all supported by high-quality, innovative, interdisciplinary research.

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Aims

KU Leuven offering travel grants to researchers from the South. The grants are meant to help the researchers pay for a research visit to Belgium.

With this programme, KU Leuven wishes to stimulate South-North exchanges.
The programme intends to offer new opportunities to researchers.
It is meant to stimulate capacity-building in the South.

Grants Information

Grants will include:

a monthly allowance of € 1,500
a plane ticket (with a maximum of € 1,200)
insurance coverage during the stay in Leuven.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants should have obtained their PhD at least three years prior to applying.
Applicants should originate from one of the Least Developed Countries, Low Income Countries or Low Middle Income Countries, as indicated on the DAC list of OECD.
Applicants should be employed by an institution located in one of the countries mentioned above.
Applicants should be invited and supported by a KU Leuven supervisor who is a senior staff member (ZAP).
Priority will be given to applicants under the age of fifty.

How to Apply

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Applicants should send their application to Stefania Schepers through the given website and also submit the required documents:

a copy of their doctoral degree certificate
an invitation letter from their KU Leuven supervisor
their CV
a copy of their passport

Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Armenia, Albania, Angola, Kenya Bolivia, Algeria, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Cabo Verde, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Zimbabwe, Cameroon Argentina, Bhutan, Congo, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Belarus, Burundi, Egypt, Belize, Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, Georgia, Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Brazil, Comoros, Guatemala, Chile, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, China (People’s Republic of), Djibouti, Honduras, Colombia, Equatorial Guinea, India, Cook Islands, Eritrea, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Cuba, Gambia, Kyrgyzstan, Dominica, Guinea, Micronesia, Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Moldova, Ecuador, Haiti, Mongolia, Fiji, Kiribati, Morocco, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic Nicaragua, Gabon, Lesotho, Nigeria, Grenada, Liberia, Pakistan, Iran, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Malawi, Paraguay, Jamaica, Mali, Philippines Jordan, Mauritania, Samoa, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Myanmar, Swaziland, Libya, Nepal, Syrian, Arab Republic Malaysia, Niger, Tokelau, Maldives, Rwanda, Ukraine, Marshall Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Uzbekistan, Mauritius, Senegal, Viet Nam, Mexico, Sierra Leone, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Montenegro, Solomon Islands, Montserrat, Somalia, Namibia, South Sudan, Nauru, Sudan, Niue, Tanzania, Palau, Timor-Leste, Panama, Togo, Peru, Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Uganda, Saint Lucia, Vanuatu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Yemen, Serbia, Zambia, Seychelles, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna.

For more information,please visit Specialization Grants.