The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is granting International Climate Protection Fellowships to prospective leaders from threshold and developing countries engaged in climate change and resource conservation, be it in research, business or administration.
Every year, it is planned to sponsor up to twenty fellows who will come to Germany for a year to conduct a project dedicated to the exchange of knowledge, methods and techniques together with a host. This will encourage the creation of a network in which German and foreign experts will collaborate on a sustainable, international basis to combat climate change and its global consequences.
The fellowships are being funded under the International Climate Protection Initiative by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The programme is scheduled to run for four years. Applications may be submitted from now until 15 January 2010. The first fellows will begin their stay in September 2010.
In Germany the fellows will be offered a comprehensive integration programme including language courses, training courses and group meetings. The aim is not only to enhance the fellows’ capabilities but also their links to one another and to German experts in various fields. The Foundation’s partners in this programme – the Federation of German Industries, the Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management at TU Dresden, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and the Renewables Academy, Berlin – will also be instrumental in achieving these goals.
For more info, Please check:
http://www.avh.de/web/newsletter-5-2009-1-en.html
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/ICF.html
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