With support from its “Exceptional Research Fund” (BOF), Ghent University wishes to bolster college explore gatherings or research focuses in developing nations in their pursuit to develop into incredible research focuses by overhauling nearby scholastic staff. In this manner Ghent University awards PhD grants to promising PhD understudies from developing nations who wish to complete part of their PhD reseach at Ghent University and half in a college in a developing nation.
These gifts appear as a purported “sandwich” grant: the hopeful gets a grant for greatest 24 months to work within a period of 48 months on a rotating premise on the PhD at Ghent University (‘North’) and at the college or research focus in a developing nation (‘South’). Just for the periods the grant holder works at Ghent University the grant holder will get a month to month pay. Whatever is left of the PhD research is done in the accomplice college, for which no financing is given through this grant. For this part of the PhD research, understudies must demonstrate that they will be financed at their home college (e.g. fulltime PhD grant or compensation).
Length
The applicant acquires a grant for greatest 24 months which must be partitioned into a few periods inside a traverse of 4 years.
Understudies are obliged to isolate the grant into least 2 distinctive research remains in Ghent (North) and need to return at any rate once to their home college (South) in the middle of the sandwich-calendar
The competitor must propose no less than 12 months of privately financed view into their stay in the South after the main BOF subsidized stay in Ghent (North).
Because of every single functional game plan (visa, lodging, contract, … ) understudies are encouraged to remain for long stretches in Ghent (e.g. 1 year).
This grant call does not mean to bolster understudies who arrange just 1 study to stay in Ghent.
Qualification Requirements:
To be allowable for this call, the greater part of the accompanying prerequisites must be met:
Competitors need to originate from – and have the nationality of – a developing nation (see nation list);
There must be a certification that the competitor will have the capacity to chip away at the PhD extension at the accomplice college in the chosen developing nation (South). This suggests there must be a nearby PhD director at the accomplice college or research focus.
A composed articulation is asked from the college authorities expressing that the applicant is either a fulltime PhD understudy or a staff individual from this college and will be adequately exempted from instructing or different assignments as to have the capacity to completely focus on the PhD research in the South.
This announcement ought to likewise say that the applicant gets a neighborhood PhD grant or pay when taking a shot at the PhD at the accomplice college in the South.
CSC grant holders are not qualified to apply for a Doctoral awards for specialists from developing nations. CSC understudies are alluded to the call Cofunding for Chinese hopefuls PhD applicants holding a CSC grant (due date October 2017).
Benefits:
The estimation of the grant at Ghent University relies upon, a.o., the scientist’s family circumstance and is roughly € 1.958 every month.
The Ghent University promoter additionally gets a seat charge of €15.440 to cover (part of) the operational expenses, and the travelling expenses of the understudy and both the Ghent University and the neighborhood promoter.
How it Works:
The hopeful applies to Ghent University mutually with a promoter of Ghent University and a chief at the neighborhood foundation.
The promoter at Ghent University needs to fill in a different information (‘promoter’s recommendation’) with advice on the applicant expressing the promoter’s feeling on the capability of the applicant as a future analyst.
The Research Council makes a determination of the applications situated to some degree on the proposals acquired from individuals from the Council for Development Cooperation. The proposal depends on:
the capabilities of the candidate;
the doctoral venture;
the significance of the examination point for advancement;
the logical/academic capability of the promoter’s examination group(s);
the organization between Ghent University and the neighborhood establishment;
the logical/insightful capability of the neighborhood establishment.
For More Information:
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of the Ghent University Doctoral Scholarships 2017
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