The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture offers The Excellence scholarships for PhD students to participate in YES’ PhD Program “Global Food Security“at the University of Hohenheim in Germany

The Food Security Center (FSC) is a newly established university center of excellence in develop-ment collaboration at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. FSC is one of five excel-lence centers of the program “exceed – Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation”, which is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Feder-al Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ). The Center’s mission is to create and support effective and innovative scientific contributions in research and teaching, as well as to give policy advice to eradicate hunger and achieve food security in collaboration with partner Higher Education Institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and national and international development and research organizations.

Eligibility:

  1. PhD students from developing countries.
  2. Besides the general selection criteria for YES’ PhD program, the following criteria have to be met additionally, if applying for an “Excellence scholarship”:
  • Last academic degree has to be less than 6 years ago;
  • Indication for return to his/her home country and institution.


Scholarship Details:

  1. FSC awards up to 12 scholarships for PhD students from developing countries for a period of 36 months, beginning August 01, 2010. There will be up to 2 scholarships offered to PhD students from developed countries. The Center wishes to attract outstanding PhD students pursuing a career in academia or development collaboration. The scholarship aims at increasing their previously gained scientific knowledge and skills relevant to food security related issues. The successful candi-dates will receive scholarships for participating in FSC’s Young Excellence School to conduct their doctorates.
  2. The scholarship is given for a stay at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. The monthly grant is 1,000 Euros in 2010. In addition, FSC pays for traveling to/from Hohenheim. Health insurance and other potential costs must be paid for privately.

Application Procedure:

  1. The applicant has to submit the application documents for YES’ PhD program and indicate in the cover letter, whether s/he applies for an “Excellence scholarship”. In addition to the general applica-tion, the applicant has to provide proof regarding the two additional selection criteria mentioned above.
  2. There is one joint application and selection process. Only those applications are accepted, which fol-low the application instructions.
  3. FSC will confirm the receipt of all (complete) applications (i.e., if an application is not complete, FSC will not consider it and will not confirm receipt of the application).
  4. The selection of the candidates will be in middle of May 2010, the program will start on August 1, 2010.

Application Deadline: April 5, 2010.

For more details go to:
http://www.searca.org/web/e_library/announcements/FSC-Excellence-Scholarships-2010.pdf