Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) 2024
CREATE-GreenAfrica
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Applications are open for the Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica) 2024. The European Union (EU), under its Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, has provided funding to support the training of graduate students in African universities under the Climate Research and Education to Advancing Green Development in Africa (CREATE-GreenAfrica)” project.
The project is a mobility programme comprising six African Partner Institutions and one EU Technical Partner. The CREATE-GreenAfrica consortium includes the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM, Tanzania) as the coordinating institution, Mekelle University (MU, Ethiopia), Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU, Zimbabwe), University of Free State (UFS, South Africa), University of Ghana (UG, Ghana), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT, Nigeria) and European Technical Partner University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Denmark). This project aims to increase climate-oriented skills and qualifications across the African continent through mobility and experience sharing. CREATE-GreenAfrica will significantly contribute to advancing the knowledge and skills of students, trainees, consortium staff and other non-consortium members on climate change adaptation and mitigation by ensuring the participation of women and girls, and the disadvantaged groups in the African continent in general and the consortium in particular.
A total of 35 Masters and 12 PhDs will be trained from 2024 to 2028 in the thematic areas of Environmental Sustainability (impact assessment, adaptation and mitigations of climate variability and change); Climate/weather related processes at local and global level for proper forecast, prediction and early warning; Resilience of food production systems to climate change and variability impacts; Gender-climate-food system nexus, policies and institutions related to climate and development; Climate change and water resources; Collective action, and natural resource management and Ecosystem based adaptation to climate change. The project will provide scholarships for full degree programs and short-term credit-seeking mobility for students.
The project will support researchers who will be expected to undertake research that contributes to the overarching CREATE-GreenAfrica research objectives, which cover broad areas of climate change and adaptation. This call for application targets 6 full-time PhD (degree seeking), 6 short-term PhD (credit seeking), 6 full-time M.Sc (degree seeking) and 6 short-term M.Sc (credit seeking) programs from Africa to be hosted across the partner African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Successful candidates are expected to undertake research contributing to the project objectives. The students will undertake high-level research that will result in journal articles, conference papers and innovations. The duration of the study is 24 months for full time M.Sc students, 4 months for short-term M.Sc students, 36 months for full time PhD students and 6 months for short term PhD students.
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