CLIFOOD PhD Scholarship

FSC awards top selected applicants from East and Central Africa scholarships to obtain their PhD degree at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.

There are certain topics provided by Hawassa University in the field of agricultural and natural sciences from which the applicants have to select as their doctoral research topic when they are applying for the scholarship. All topics are part of the research program within CLIFOOD.

Applicants who successfully applied for FSC`s CLIFOOD scholarship are so-called “pre-selected candidates” fulfilling all the formal criteria. Only after the selection commission at Hawassa University has accepted the „pre-selected candidate“ fulfilling the qualitative criteria, he/she will be ultimately selected and awarded a CLIFOOD scholarship to conduct his/her doctorate.

However, after being selected for the CLIFOOD scholarship, all candidates are obliged to apply for an admission to enroll as a doctoral student at Hawassa University.  

The candidate who has been selected for a CLIFOOD scholarship has to follow the doctoral degree regulations of the School of Graduate Study (SGS) of Hawassa University. Only the SGS can enroll a successful applicant to become a full PhD candidate at Hawassa University. 

Following the aforementioned, an applicant who successes in being selected for the CLIFOOD scholarship as well as in receiving the acceptance as a doctoral candidate at Hawassa University, will be awarded the CLIFOOD scholarship for a 3-year-stay at Hawassa University in Hawassa, Ethiopia

The monthly grant is EUR 500.00 (including health and liability insurance). In addition, the travel costs to and from Hawassa for starting the PhD studies, and to and from Stuttgart for attending the block seminars at the University of Hohenheim will be covered.

  

Note 1: PhD candidates within CLIFOOD are obliged to take part in structured block seminars (in total 6 for one PhD generation) dealing with CLIFOOD related topics as well as in soft skill courses.

Note 2: CLIFOOD scholars will be registered as PhD candidates in the respective faculties and are obliged to take part in the PhD course work of their faculty.

Criteria for getting selected for CLIFOOD scholarship:

1.Having a nationality of one of the East and Central African Countries
2.Indication of intention to return to the home country and/or institute and/or to continue working in Ethiopia
3.Your research proposal has to relate to one of the research themes (see the "Research topics" section)
4.M.Sc. CGPA 3.25 and above or equivalent
5.The final graduation at the time of submitting the application should not lie further back than 6 years (in exceptional cases a detailed explanation should be provided)
6.Providing an English language proficiency test certificate or an official document indicating that the medium of instructions for M.Sc. was English (for more information please click HERE)

 

 

Currently no topic is available!
No open call for applications at the moment!

The documents listed in the checklist are required for applying for the CLIFOOD PhD scholarship. Please use the templates which are available for download below. Please note, that all application documents must be submitted in English.