Opportunity Round up – Top Opportunities for Africans for the Month of October 2018.

Here are the Top Opportunities for the month of October 2018 as curated by the Opportunities for Africans Team. Enjoy!

SCHOLARSHIPS

• University of British Columbia International Leader of Tomorrow Award 2019/2020 for study in Canada (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: December 1st 2018 
• University of Edinburgh Mastercard Foundation (Undergraduate & Postgraduate) Scholars Program 2019/2020 for study in Scotland (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: November 30 2018
  
• Irish Aid Fellowship Training Programme 2019/2020 for study in Ireland (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: 30 November, 2018.
  
• University of California Berkeley MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program 2019/2020 for Study in U.S.A (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: Varying by Course
  
• Sciences Po Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2019/2020 for study in France (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: February 18th 2019
• Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) Program 2019 for young Africans to study in Japan (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: October 31st 2018 
• Yale Young African Scholars Program 2019 for African secondary school Students (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: 06 February 2019 
• Commonwealth PhD Scholarships 2019 (for low and middle income countries) to Study in the UK (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: 19 December 2018 
• Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships 2019 for full-time Master’s study at a UK university (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: 19 December 2018 
• French Government Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Programme 2019 for Masters & PhD Study in France (Funded)
  Deadline: January 11th 2019. 
• Sciences Po Emile-Boutmy (Undergraduate & Postgraduate) Scholarships 2019/2020 for Study in France (Funded)
  Deadline: April 8, 2019 
• The Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) Pan-African Scholarship 2019 for Leadership Development Program (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: Ongoing
• Donald A. Wehrung International Student Award 2019/2020 for study at University of British Columbia, Canada
  Deadline: December 1, 2018 
• ARES Belgian Government Masters and Training Scholarships 2019/2020 for study in Belgium
  Deadline:  8th February 2019 
• US-MEPI Student Leaders Program 2019 for undergraduate & graduate Students from the Middle East and North Africa (Fully Funded to USA)
  Deadline: December 31st, 2018. 
• Holland Government Scholarship 2019/2020 for study at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
  Deadline:  31 January 2019. 
• Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme Scholarships 2019/2020 for Postgraduate Study in Ireland (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: 21st December 2018 
• Canon Collins Trust Master of Laws (LLM) Scholarships 2019 for study at the University of London.
  Deadline: January 11th 2019
• The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Undergraduate & Postgraduate Scholarships 2018/2019 for study in Nigerian Federal Universities
  Deadline: Friday November 16, 2018
• Funza Lushaka Bursary Programme 2019 for young South Africans
  Deadline: 16 November 2018 
• The Department of Environmental Affairs’ (DEA) Undergraduate & Postgraduate bursaries 2019 for young South Africans
  Deadline: 09 November 2018. 
• Thomas Jefferson Tunisia Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGRAD) 2019/2020 for young Tunisians to study in USA (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: November 26, 2018

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

• Startupper of the year by Total Challenge 2018/2019 for young African Entrepreneurs
  Deadline: November 2nd 2018
• USA Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2020) Lottery : Live and Work in the United States of America.
  Deadline: November 6, 2018 
• Swiss–sub-Saharan Africa Business Development Program 2018 for young graduate students & Entrepreneurs (Fully Funded to Switzerland)
  Deadline: October 31st 2018
• World Bank Africa Regional Blog4Dev Essay Competition 2018 for young Africans (chance to intern at a World Bank Africa country office)
  Deadline: November 30, 2018
• Miller Center’s Global Social Benefit Institute Accelerator Programme 2019 for social entrepreneurs (Funded)
  Deadline:November 2nd 2018 
• Innovation for Women in Africa AFD Digital Challenge 2018 for startups promoting gender equality (85 000€ prize)
  Deadline: November 12th 2018 
• Google AI Residency Program 2019 for young graduates in STEM (12 Months residency in Google)
  Deadline: January 28th 2019 
• The One Young World Facebook Social Entrepreneurship Award 2018/2019 (USD$100,000 Prize)
  Deadline: 21st November, 2018
• Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) 2019 for Mid-­Career African Academics (Fully Funded to Pretoria South Africa)
  Deadline: November 9th 2018
• United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UNMGCY) Youth Forum 2018 – Marrakech,Morocco
  Deadline: November 2nd, 2018 
• THE NEXT SOCIETY Start-up Booster Track Programme 2018 for Entrepreneurs in the MENA region.
  Deadline: 15 November 2018. 
• GIST Tech-I Competition 2019 for entrepreneurs from emerging economies (All-expenses-paid trip to Bahrain)
  Deadline: November 23rd 2018 
• YouTube Learning Fund Program for content creators
  Deadline: November 30, 2018 
• British Council #IdeasChangeLives Challenge 2018 (£20,000 prize)
  Deadline: 23 November 2018 
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Young Leaders Training Programme 2019 for young Ugandans (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: 5th November, 2018
  

INTERNSHIPS

• World Bank Group Winter Paid Internship 2019 for Young Professionals
  Deadline: October 31st 2018
• J. Paul Getty Trust paid International graduate internships 2019 for graduate students ( $30,000 grant)
  Deadline: November 1st 2018

• Google Summer/Winter/Spring Business Internship 2019 for young graduates
  Deadline: 12 November 2018
• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 IFFR Trainee Program for Young Film Critics (Funded to Rotterdam, Netherlands)
  Deadline: October 30th 2018
  
• United Nations University Junior Fellows Internship Programme 2019, Tokyo, Japan (Funded)
  Deadline: October 31st 2018
• National Research Foundation DST-NRF Internship Programme 2019/2020 for Unemployed South African Graduates ( R8 050.00 per month stipend)
  Deadline: November 2nd 2018
• United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) Entry Level Recruitment 2018/2019 for young Nigerians
  Deadline: November 30th 2018
• Microsoft Full-time Opportunity for Students and Recent Graduates – South Africa
  Deadline: Unspecified
  

FELLOWSHIPS

• World Conference of Science Journalists 2019 Travel Fellowship (Funded to Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Deadline: November 15th 2018
• MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme 2019/2020 (Fully Funded to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),USA)
  Deadline: November 18, 2018 
• Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism Fellowship 2019 at Ohio State University, USA (Funded
  Deadline: November 18th 2018
• 2019/2020 Irish Aid Roger Casement Fellowship in Human Rights (Fully Funded to study in Ireland)
  Deadline: November 30th 2018 
• John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships 2019/2020 at Stanford University, USA ($85,000 stipend & Fully Funded)
  Deadline: December 4th 2018
• LDI Africa Emerging Institutions Fellowship Program 2019 for young African Professionals
  Deadline: November 15th 2018
• The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) Fall 2018 competition for African-born Academics (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: December 9th 2018
  
• Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation 2019 for study at Harvard University ($USD 70,000 Stipend & Fully Funded)
  Deadline: December 1st 2018
• The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) Fall 2018 competition for African-born Academics (Fully Funded)
  Deadline: December 9th 2018
• Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism Fellowship 2019 for Business Journalists ($USD $15,000)
  Deadline: June 28th 2019

All the Best.