Funding call

TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme
open
TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme: submit your proposal by 19 May 2025.

Are you a postdoctoral researcher in Sub-Saharan Africa, ready to take your work to the next level?

This is your chance to dive deep into your research, get international connections, and make groundbreaking discoveries with the TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme!

The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme allows postdoctoral researchers from Sub-Saharan Africa to undertake a three-month ‘Cooperation Visit’ to a research institute in Germany. 

All academic fields will be considered. Proposals must be submitted by visiting researchers to the TWAS website by 19 May 2025.

Here is the link to the TWAS-DFG call on the TWAS website, where proposals have to be submitted: TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – SSA

Please find the “call for the proposal” at the following DFG website: DFG, German Research Foundation – TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme

Head to the TWAS website now!

Or, download the TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme “call for proposal” HERE

Status

open

Deadline

TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme: submit your proposal by 19 May 2025.

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