The objective of the programme is to promote sustainable development and poverty alleviation by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professionals in Africa. The programme aims to strengthen co-operation between higher education institutions in Africa with the view of increasing access to quality education that will encourage and enable African students to undertake postgraduate studies, and to promote student retention in the region along with the mobility of staff (academic and administrative) while increasing competitiveness and attractiveness of the institutions themselves. More specifically the programme aims to:

(a) provide access to higher education for students including those from disadvantaged groups;
(b) facilitate cooperation on recognition of studies and qualifications;
(c) contribute to the improvement of the quality of higher education through the promotion of internationalisation, and harmonisation of programmes and curricula within participating institutions;
(d) enhance the international cooperation capacity of Higher Education Institutions in African countries;
(e) promote cooperation between sending and host institutions;
(f) enable students, academics and staff to benefit linguistically, culturally and professionally from the experience gained in the context of mobility to another country;
(g) enhance, in the medium term, the political, cultural, educational and economic links between the participating countries.

Eligible Countries are listed below by Regions of Africa Countries:

• Central: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and S?o Tomé and Principe
• Eastern: Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania
• Northern: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco
• Southern: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe
• Western: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo

You will be required to select one of the following African partner institutions in your application:

• Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa
• Federal 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
• Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Uganda
• 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Hydrauilique, Algeria
• TU Delft, The Netherlands (Technical partner)

• Ensure that you are familiar with the language of tuition at the host institution.
• Carefully consider the identified programmes and areas of excellence in each partner institution.
• Ensure that you have the necessary academic background in terms of study areas/degrees before you apply.
• Be aware of the real cost of living at each partner institution and analyse it, considering the monthly subsistence of the scholarship.
• Consider the need to adapt to different cultural realities and different climate conditions.

• Monitor the individual academic progress of scholarship holders registered at their institution.
• Provide the co-ordinating institution with student quarterly progress reports.
• Ensure gender balance (with particular emphasis on the selection of women), equal opportunities and the participation of disadvantaged groups (disabled students, economically disadvantaged students) in the selection process.
• Read the common package of services for additional information (/media/rhodesuniversity/content/awarmn/documents/AWaRMN_Common-Package-of-Services-Final.pdf)

To be eligible for support from AWARMN, applicants must:

• be a national of an African Union member state and resident in Africa at the time of application.
• meet both institutional and partnership requirements for admission
• not have benefited from any form of previous support from Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, or Intra-ACP academic mobility scheme.
• Must be prepared to move from home country to another country where AWARM has a partner institution. This applies to foreign applicants who reside in a country with AWARMN institution. For such applicants, you must then consider applying to a third country. For example, you are Ugandan, but reside in South Africa or have studied in South Africa. You can not apply to Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 or Makerere. 

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网:
Dr Chika Nnadozie (AWARMN coordinator)
Email: c.nnadozie@ru.ac.za  
Tel: +27(0) 466038716

Federal 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Technology Minna, Nigeria:
Prof Francis Arimoro
Email: f.arimoro@futminna.edu.ng

老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Kinshasa:
Prof Raphael Tshimanga
Email: raphtm@yahoo.fr

Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网:
Prof George Nyakairu
Email: gwnyakairu@chemistry.mak.ac.ug

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Hydrauilique, Algeria (ENSH):
Prof Meddi Mohamed
Email: m.meddi@ensh.dz

Click on the "View" link on the website to view the call and apply. 

Please complete the online application. If you are a first-time user, you will need to register. If you are already registered, simply login.

You will also be asked to submit electronic versions of the supporting documentation listed in the application.

You will need to submit the following:

1. Certified copies of academic degrees and official transcripts
2. A 2 paged curriculum vitae
3. A formal identity document e.g., passport, national identity card, driver's license or any other officially recognized form of identification indicating your nationality
4. A 250-word motivation stating why you should be awarded a scholarship
5. Two reference letters (one academic and one non-academic). The academic referee must be able to attest to your academic standing.

Degree-seeking (long-term mobility that leads to an award of a degree upon successful completion of all requirements at the host institution).

Credit-seeking (short-term mobility that leads to the award of credit(s) at the host institution and recognised at the home institution).

The partnership is developing an MoU to regulate the recognition of credits among the partner institutions, with due regard to institutional context and national regulations.

The following are the degrees offered by AWaRMN partner institutions:

• Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网: MSc and PhD in Hydrology; MSc and PhD in Water Resource Science
• Federal 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Technology Minna: MTech and PhD in Hydrology Biology; Mtech and PhD in Hydrogeology
• National Higher School of Hydraulics: MSc and PhD in Hydraulics
• 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Kinshasa: MSc and PhD in Water Resources
• Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网: MSc and PhD in Chemistry

Target Group 1: These are students who have obtained degrees or are currently studying in one of the AWaRMN partner institutions.

Target group 2: These are students who have obtained degrees or are studying in an institution other than those within the AWaRMN partnership.

The academic eligibility criteria differ for each partner institution and are specified as follows:

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (Institute for Water Research), South Africa:

The language of instruction is English. A working knowledge of English Language is required. Candidates are expected to have prerequisite knowledge in the subject area they have chosen for credit-seeking mobility.

Federal 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Technology (Department of Animal Biology; Department of Geology), Minna, Nigeria (FUTMINNA):

The language of instruction is English. A working knowledge of English Language is required. Candidates are expected to have prerequisite knowledge in the subject areas they have chosen for credit-seeking mobility.

Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (Department of Chemistry), Uganda:

The language of instruction is English. A working knowledge of English Language is required. Candidates are expected to have prerequisite knowledge in the subject areas they have chosen for credit-seeking mobility.

老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Kinshasa (Department of Natural Resources Management and the Congo Basin Water Resources Research Centre), DRC (UNIKIN):

The language of instruction is French. A working knowledge of French is required. Candidates are expected to have prerequisite knowledge in the subject areas they have chosen for credit-seeking mobility.

Ecole Nationale Supéprieure d'Hydraulique (ENSH) - National Higher School for Hydraulics:

The language of instruction is French. A working knowledge of French is required. Candidates are expected to have prerequisite knowledge in the subject areas they have chosen for credit-seeking mobility.

The deadline for submission of applications is 22 February 2023.

Submitted applications will be acknowledged within 3 working days.

Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the competitive selection process by email on or before 22 February 2023.

Successful applicants will need to familiarize themselves with the information about the host institution and country they will be travelling to all contained within the common package of services brochure (All you need to know Guide)

The value of the scholarship is in Euros. The scholarship covers:

• Roundtrip flight tickets and visa costs
• Participation costs such as tuition fees, registration fees, application fees, bench fees and other related costs
• Comprehensive travel insurance (health, accident and travel)
• A monthly subsistence allowance for the mobility period
• Once off settling-in allowance at the beginning of the mobility
• Research costs for students whose mobility exceed 10 months.
• Extra subsistence allowance corresponding to a single monthly allowance for female students per academic year for mobility equal or longer than 2 academic years.

No. The details of subsistence allowance to students and staff on mobility are listed below:

There is an additional subsistence allowance for female students (per academic year only for mobility that equals or exceeds 2 academic years).

Yes. The scholarship covers comprehensive travel insurance (health, accident and travel).