Description

VLIR-UOS launched its ICP Ph D programme in 2003 to enable promising graduates of the International Courses Programme (ICP) to make a Ph D at a Flemish university.

The ICP Ph D programme aims to institutionally strengthen universities or research institutions in the South through capacity building. Local academic personnel is upgraded by offering Ph D scholarships in a so-called `sandwich program´. The research and doctoral programme 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 provoke a win-win effect for all parties involved.

For students who come from:

• Zimbabwe
• Zambia
• Uganda
• Tanzania
• South Africa
• Senegal
• Rwanda
• Niger
• Mozambique
• Morocco

Want to go to:

• Belgium

Disciplines:

• Any discipline

Eligibility

The call is only open for ICP graduates that are nationals from a developing country. An ICP is an International Course Programme (Master, or Master after Master), funded by VLIR-UOS and organized in Belgium at one or more of the Flemish Universities. The applicant should either graduate in the reference year (2011) or not have graduated from an ICP more than five years before the start of the ICP Ph D scholarship period. For the list of ICP programmes and a complete list of the admissibility criteria, please refer to the call ICP Ph D 2011.

Duration

An ICP Ph.D. scholarship consists of two two-year terms, and cannot be extended. It is a ‘sandwich’ scholarship, which means that in principle two-thirds of the research is conducted at the local institution and one-third at the Flemish university. The scholar is free to choose the periods of his/her stays in Belgium and his/her home country, albeit in agreement with both supervisors. However, for practical reasons, the scholar is obliged to come to Belgium at the start of the scholarship, i.e. on 1 October of the reference year.