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.
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