The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s thirteen (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is offering one PhD research project working on ‘assessing the economic benefits, resilience to shocks, and market demand for agroecological farming in East Africa’in the African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Sciences (ARPPIS).
The PhD project is part of the Regional Multi-Actor Research Network on Agroecology in East Africa (RMRN-EA), a project funded by the European Commission.
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is offering one PhD research project working on ‘assessing the economic benefits, resilience to shocks, and market demand for agroecological farming in East Africa’in the African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Sciences (ARPPIS).
The PhD project is part of the Regional Multi-Actor Research Network on Agroecology in East Africa (RMRN-EA), a project funded by the European Commission.
The Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Göttingen and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) invite applications for a temporary professorship with civil servant status (grade W1 NBesO) effective at the earliest possible date:
The professorship will initially be awarded with civil servant status for a period of three years. After a positive evaluation, the employment contract will be extended for up to another three years.
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