The DAAD Regional Office for Africa is pleased to inform you that the call for the fourth intake for the DAAD-funded scholarship programme “Leadership for Africa in East Africa” is now open, with a request to share this with your networks.
This year the targeted East African countries are Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The unique scholarship programme “Leadership for Africa” (LfA), funded by the German Foreign Office, aims to support the academic qualification and advancement of young refugees and national scholars from selected countries within the region at higher education institutions in Germany. In times of conflict and displacement in various African countries, this programme intends to contribute to the education of future leaders, who will be essential for the further development of their home countries. “Leadership for Africa” offers scholarships for Master’s studies in Germany to qualified applicants in all fields of study except for medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, law, the arts, and architecture. All “Leadership for Africa” scholarship holders benefit from a complementary training programme in good governance, civil society, and career development. The mandatory programme must be completed in addition to the regular studies.
For more information, interested applicants should visit the website: https://bit.ly/lfa-east-africa
Here is the current call for applications: www.daad.de/go/en/stipa57562806
