Food Security Center offers up to 10 research scholarships in 2012
Deadline: 26.10.2011.
| Scholarship administrator: | Food Security Center |
| Level: | doctoral |
| Field of study: | Natural Sciences |
| Place of study: | Germany |
The Food Security Center (FSC) is a university center of excellence in development collaboration at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. FSC is one of five excellence centers of the program “exceed – Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation”, which is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany. FSC’s mission is to make effective and innovative scientific contributions in research, teaching, and policy advice to eradicate hunger and achieve food security in collaboration with partner research and education organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and national and international development and research organizations. Thematically, FSC’s activities deal with issues of sustainable food availability, food access, food use, and food utilization. More information is available from www.foodsecurity.de.
In 2012, FSC awards up to 10 scholarships supporting excellent PhD students from developing countries to participate in the FSC-supported PhD program “Global Food Security” at the University of Hohenheim. The PhD program will start in September 2012 and last for 37 months, to September 2015. The Center wishes to attract outstanding PhD students pursuing a career in academia or development collaboration. The scholarship program aims at increasing their previously gained scientific knowledge and skills relevant to food security related issues.
The application deadline for all scholarship categories is October 26, 2011. Selection of the candidates will be in December 2011 and is carried out on a competitive basis. Selected applicants will be contacted no later than January 25, 2012.
Regarding the details of the scholarship program, the application process and the requirements, please consult FSC’s webpage (www.foodsecurity.de – go to “Scholarships”). Please read the information carefully before you apply. For important questions, please write an email to
fsc-scholarships@uni-hohenheim.de
and please only to this mail address! Only completed applications using FSC’s application form will be considered.