PhD scholarships for researchers with International Course Program - ICP degree, Belgium

The VLIR-UOS yearly offers approximately 10 scholarships to people who wish to carry out research on a development topic, in a so-called sandwich programme.

Description
The research and doctoral program are geographically spread over two locations, namely the academic home institution and a Flemish university. In this way both local and Flemish expertise are combined to offer you and both research groups a win-win effect. The Selection Committee Research Scholarships assesses and ranks all proposals according to quality and relevance for the South.

Eligibility

• You should be a national and resident of a developing country of the VLIR-UOS-country list that was applicable in the year you started your ICP studies or be on the country list used for the scholarships.
• The call is open for people who graduated not earlier than 2008, or will graduate in 2013, from a Flemish, VLIR-UOS funded Master programme (ICP).
• As an applicant, you must of course meet other criteria

Application Procedure
Please find the application form at official site below

Submission Deadline
Around February every year

Website Link
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?language=EN&navid=527&direct_to=ICP_PhD_scholarships

2013 VLIR-UOS ICP - PhD Scholarships for Students from Developing Countries, Belgium

VLIR-UOS ICP - PhD Scholarships are specially offered to outstanding graduates from a developing country who have studied in a VLIR-UOS Master’s programme (ICP) in Flanders and wish to make a PhD at a Flemish university.

Description
The VLIR-OUS ICP-PhD scholarship is a sandwich scholarship for the applicants to conduct research at foreign institution and Belgium university. A full ICP PhD scholarship consists of two consecutive two-year terms and cannot be extended. The PhD scholarship is fiscally limited to 4 years. You mustn’t have received any PhD scholarship in the past. You must also provide a document from the Belgian university/-ies where you were or are still registered, proving you are entitled to be registered as PhD student for 4 years from 1 October of the reference year onwards.

Eligibility

• You should be a national and resident of a developing country of the VLIR-UOS-country list that was applicable in the year you started your ICP studies (see VLIR-UOS website) or be on the 54 list currently used for scholarships.
• You should already have obtained your ICP Master’s degree when you submit the application, or should obtain it in the reference year, i.c. 2013.
• The programme is not limited to those graduates who have already been granted an ICP scholarship of VLIR-UOS. -Students from developing countries (see country lists on our website) who followed a VLIR-UOS funded Master at a Flemish University (ICP) by their own means or with another scholarship are also welcome to apply.

Application Procedure
The full instruction of the Vlir-ous PhD scholarship can be found at the web link below.

Submission Deadline
15 March 2013

Website Link
http://www.vliruos.be/downloads/ICP_PhD_2013_call.pdf