The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Merit Scholarship Program for High Technology for the year 1433H (2012-13) are open for application. The scholarships will be awarded to successful applicants effective September 2012.
The program is designed to help promising research students to pursue a full-time three year Ph.D study or a six-twelve month post-doctoral research work in scientific disciplines that enhance development in IDB member countries, with priority to health/medicine, agriculture/food production, water resources/desertification, energy/infrastructure development, nanotechnology and development-focused ICT. Some scholarships are also available for studies and research in invention-related abstract sciences.
The scholarship comprises tuition fees, living allowances, health insurance, round-trip air-ticket and conference participation allowance in general, and computer and dependency allowances for Ph.D. students.
The applicant must be a citizen of an IDB member country, must be a permanent employee of an academic institution or a research center of his/her country and must satisfy all the eligibility requirements of the program.
The successful candidate must secure admission to one of the universities listed in the
Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) Website. Priority shall be given to applicants who have secured admission at universities that have concluded a cooperation agreement with the IDB such as Cambridge University, Oxford University, Nottingham University and Birmingham University in the UK, and ParisTech in France or from the top 50 universities on the THES list.
The prospective applicants should visit the
IDB website to download the program’s application form and to read full information about the eligibility requirements, how to apply, the program’s benefits and facilities as well as the names of universities.
The applicant must complete the application form and send it together with all the requisite documents, as mentioned on the concluding page of the form, through the office of the IDB Governor for the applicant’s country and not directly to the IDB Headquarters in Jeddah. The application must reach the concerned IDB Governor’s Office or its designated office by December 31, 2011. Applications received directly at the IDB will not be entertained.
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