Opportunities For Youth

In 1987, the World Bank, with funding from the Government of Japan, established the World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (WBGSP) for graduate studies in subjects related to economic development. Each year, the Program awards scholarships to individuals from World Bank member countries to undertake graduate studies at renowned universities throughout member countries of the Bank.

Now in its 23d year, the Regular Program has awarded 3,153 scholarships, selected from 58,944 applicants. In addition, 1,226 scholarships have been awarded in the various JJ/WBGSP Partnership Programs for a total of 4,379 awards.

The objective of the Scholarship and Fellowship Programs is to help create an international community of highly-trained professionals working in the field of economic and social development. The community will actively participate in the capacity building efforts in the developing countries.
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Open to: applicants who completed a research master or an equivalent degree
Fund: full

The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University opens five fully funded PhD positions in the field of arts and social sciences. PhD candidates will receive a coherent programme of introductory courses and intensive supervision, complemented by additional courses organized by a national graduate school.

The programme is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach and its international character, focused on three topics:
1. European Administrative Governance;
2. Science, Technology and Society, including Globalization and Development;
3. Cultural Memory and Diversity (see below)

PhD candidates are offered a 3 or 4 year contract, a competitive salary and a bench fee to cover research-related costs. The condition of a 4 year contract is to undertake a limited amount of teaching duties.

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The Hellenic Government offers scholarships for foreign nationals for academic year 2010-2011,
and for the Hellenic language and civilization 2010 summer seminar.

Deadline: 31/3/2010
Open to: Students from 44 different countries
Fund: between EUR 500 and 550

Scholarships are offered for:

Undergraduate studies
Postgraduate studies
Research
Hellenic laguage and civilization 2010 summer seminar

Eligibility
Students from 44 different countries can apply. The amount of scholarships that are available for each country can be found here.
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Every year UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP offer PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multi-disciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that is of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP programme.

The fellowship programme provides the successful applicant with a unique opportunity to:

• develop and advance their research under the supervision of a UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP faculty member and contribute to the overall research agenda of the Institute,
• widen their research interests and professional networks by working in the international and multi-disciplinary context of the UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP, and with its wider network of Japanese universities and research institutes, as well as international collaborators,
• become exposed to the workings of the international and multilateral policy process and the broader UN system,
• and link with other UNU-IAS and UNU-ISP PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows.

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Nottingham Trent University is inviting applications for 12 fully-funded PhD studentships, commencing in October 2010. The studentships will pay UK/EU fees and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (currently £13,290 per annum) for up to three years. Read more…

The European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies invites applications to the Doctoral Programme 2010 commencing on October 1st.

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The European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies, co-ordinated by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is an international, interdisciplinary graduate programme cooperating with eight partner universities. After the completion of the programme the doctoral degree *Doctor Europaeus *is awarded. Read more…

The University of Leeds is pleased to offer at least nine Fully-Funded International Research Scholarships (FIRS), which are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from Session 2010/11 for study in any Faculty at the University. Read more…

Objectives: To do a PhD degree supervised by scientists working at universities in Germany in close cooperation with scientists working for Siemens Corporate Technology on one of the topics under current offers (see Annex 1 in attached document)

Target Group: Highly qualified post graduates from one of the listed institutions (attached document) Read more…

University of St Andrews – Department of Film Studies.

We are offering the following fee waiver scholarships in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews:
Four Film Studies fee waiver scholarships for PhD entry in September 2010.
These 3-year scholarships will be awarded in May 2010 to four PhD applicants with outstanding research potential, to enable them to pursue Film Studies at St Andrews from September 2010.
The awards are equivalent to the domestic/EU fee. They will be awarded by competition. Read more…

Applications are now being accepted for the MA Course and the PhD Courses in Linguistics. The deadline is July 14th (first period) and September 12th (second period).
The MA Course is a two years program, with the second year dedicated to the elaboration of a dissertation. The first year includes the teaching of the fundamental areas in Linguistics – Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, Text / Discourse – with the possibility of choosing Historical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and History of Grammar. A license (180 ECTS or equivalent) is required. Read more…