Opportunities
We want to make it easier for Africans to find opportunities that can help them in their career journeys. Check this page regularly for information about scholarships, funding, mentorship and more!
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Amelia Earhart Fellowship for Women in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering
Globally, women make up around 25 percent of the workforce in the aerospace industry. In an effort to carry out its mission that women have access to all resources and are represented in decision-making positions on an equal basis with men, Zonta International offers the Amelia Earhart Fellowship.
Postgraduate
Fellowships
Women in STEM
International
Engineering
Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers
Our mission is to increase the number of BME Engineers who succeed professionally and support young people to explore a career in engineering.
High School
Undergraduate
Mentorship
Europe
Engineering
Black Girls Code
Black Girls CODE is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and do so much more. By reaching out to the community through workshops and after school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities in programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails. Black Girls CODE has set out to prove to the world that girls of every color have the skills to become the programmers of tomorrow. By promoting classes and programs we hope to grow the number of women of color working in technology and give underprivileged girls a chance to become the masters of their technological worlds. Black Girls CODE’s ultimate goal is to provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.
Scholarships
Americas
Technology
Chevening Scholarships
The Chevening group offers fully funded scholarships to undertake any master’s course at any UK University. Applying for a Chevening scholarship is both competitive and challenging process therefore if you decide to go for it you have to be prepared to give it everything you’ve got! Click on the link below to get access to the Chevening Website. These scholarships cover – tuition fees, travel expenses and monthly stipend.
Founder
Mentorship
Africans in the UK
Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science (DELTAS) Africa Awards and Grand Challenges Africa
This initiative is sponsored and in partnership with the Wellcome Trust (The Wellcome Trust). Delivered by the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa, this initiative aims to support world-class scientific research across the continent. Funding amounts vary according to decisions that would have been made by their internal panel.
Postgraduate
Funding
Africa
Science
ESA-SEEDS
Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability (SEEDS) is a minority education and mentoring program of the Ecological Society of America.
Fellowships
Any
Spark Society
We aim to give scientists of color the tools to become innovators in the cognitive sciences.
Fellowships
Job
Americas
Neuroscience
Graduate Resources for Advancing Diversity with Maryland Astronomy and Physics
Graduate Resources Advancing Diversity with Maryland Astronomy and Physics (GRAD-MAP) strives to build strong, sustainable ties betwen the University of Maryland and mid-Atlantic minority-serving institutions (MSIs). We connect promising MSI students with our graduate and faculty researchers at the University of Maryland. GRAD-MAP has three key goals: 1) Improve the representation of, and climate for, underrepresented minorities in physics and astronomy, particularly at UMD; 2) Build a diverse, collaborative community amongst the physics and astronomy faculty, researchers, and students at UMD and mid-Atlantic HBCUs, MSIs, and community colleges; and 3) Provide graduate students with experience mentoring a diverse group of students and experience developing and implementing a diversity initiative, preparing them to practice allyship and be agents of change throughout their careers. In doing so, we will significantly improve the diversity of Physics and Astronomy graduate students and serve as an example for future initiatives throughout the United States. We are supported by the Physics and Astronomy departments at the University of Maryland, College Park. GRAD-MAP is funded by the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences and the Departments of Astronomy and Physics, and the NSF Career, PIRE, and AAG programs.
Postgraduate
Mentorship
Americas
Astronomy
Physics
IWS Network
IWS Network is a non-for-profit group born out of similar but independent ideas from women who saw the need to provide support and mentorship to fellow Immigrant and International Women in Science (IWS). Early in 2018, these women were discussing the mentorship activities they were doing in their respective cities and realized they could join forces and invite other women to form a Canada-wide IWS Network. This idea spread rapidly, and thanks to the great support received by many other women across Canada, IWS Network is currently present in multiple cities, with prospects to growing even more in the future.
Mentorship
Any
Science
Medical Research Foundation
They independently fund and support promising research in areas of great clinical need but where there is low investment, creating the conditions required to take the improvement of human health to new and exciting frontiers.
Postgraduate
Funding
Any
Health Science
Medicine
SAWISE Scholarship for African Women in Science and Technology
The scholarship is only offered to Sub-Saharan black females that have achieved a 70% or above grade average in a engineering or science related subject.
Undergraduate
Scholarships
Women in STEM
Africa
Engineering
Science
The University of Cambridge
Cambridge-Africa is a University-wide programme that supports researchers from Sub-Saharan Africa and promotes mutually beneficial collaborations and equitable partnerships between Africa and Cambridge. There are currently five initiatives within the Cambridge-Africa Programme, which cover a range of disciplines and partner universities/institutes in sub-Saharan Africa. The Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund, CapreX, Thrive Cambridge, MUII-plus Cambridge and Cambridge Africa PhD scheme.
Postgraduate
Funding
Scholarships
Africa
United States Scholarship for Africa
This program was set up to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Motherland – AFRICA – to acquire knowledge in Universities, Colleges and other Institutions of learning in the United States. It is an initiative of the Union of Africa Americans in the United States as part of a special contribution for the development of the human resources of the Motherland.
Postgraduate
Undergraduate
Award
Scholarships
Africa
UW-Minority Achievement Program
Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program [GO-MAP] University of Washington – Graduate Excellence Through Diversity
Postgraduate
Undergraduate
Fellowships
Mentorship
Americas
VLIR-UOS scholarship (International Master Programme – ICP)
VLIR-UOS scholarships (International Master Programme – ICP) are offered to applicants from 31 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The scholarship could be for a masters or training programme at the Flemish university.
Masters
Scholarships
Belgium
Volkswagen Foundation
The Volkswagen Foundation is dedicated to the support of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology in higher education and research. It funds research projects in path breaking areas and provides assistance to academic institutions for improvement of structural conditions of their work. The amount of the grant depends on each imitative.
Postgraduate
Funding
Any
Science
Technology
West African Research Association
WARA is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the promotion of research on West Africa and the diaspora, scholarly exchange, the dissemination of accurate information on West Africa and its diasporic communities, and increasing awareness of the critical place of West Africa in the global community. WARA offers a variety of awards ranging from travel grants to residencies to pre- and post- doctoral fellowships for research in West Africa and the U.S. All disciplines are welcomed to apply, but requirements vary by award.
Postgraduate
Award
Fellowships
Africa