VIB-IPBO Open Doors Fellowship Program for African Researchers 2024

 

 

 

About VIB International Plant Biotechnology Outreach (VIB-IPBO)

The UGent- VIB International Plant Biotechnology Outreach (VIB-IPBO) is a non-profit scientific organization established in 2000 as a partnership of the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), a world-leading life sciences research institute based in Flanders (Belgium), and Ghent University (UGent). Over the last twenty years, the VIB-IPBO’s Vision is to ‘contribute to the participatory engagement of agricultural communities and local actors in LDE to new sustainable agricultural systems, to enable a healthy planet with a sound social, cultural, economic and

 

VIB-IPBO Open Doors Fellowship Program

• Category Fellowship
• Organisation VIB International Plant Biotechnology Outreach (VIB-IPBO)
• Country to study–
• School to study–
• Course to study Not specified
• Application Deadline January 31, 2024

Aim and Benefits of VIB-IPBO Open Doors Fellowship Program

• The program supports their fellows’ scientific and public visibility because if research outputs are not visible, fellows aren’t either. To this end, participants receive training on scientific communication and financial incentives to attend congresses and open-access publication fees.

 

Requirements for VIB-IPBO Open Doors Fellowship Program Qualification

• Applicants are post-doc female scholars (minimum one year after defending their PhD) or in mid-career positions who experience challenges to progress in their career path due to limited access to training, infrastructure and international networks. There are no age limits.
• Scholarship candidates should be national and resident in one of the VLIR- UOS scholarship countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania or Uganda); or employee of a target organization in one of these countries (candidates exceptionally can have a different nationality). This requirement is not applicable for the Slot Water and Oxidative Stress Resistance (Slot Identification Number: ODF_06).
• Applicants’ research fields must be plant breeding, agrobiotechnology, molecular biology and genetics, microbiology, chemical ecology, plant & soil health, livestock or aquaculture.
•  Applicants must have an active employment contract in a High Education institution or an (inter)national research centre in any of the countries listed above for the duration of the fellowship (20 months), where they conduct research and teach.
• Applicants are supervising MSc or PhD students and supporting staff.

 

Application Deadline

January 31, 2024

 

 

How to Apply

For more details,visit VIB-IPBO website

 

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