Deadline February 1st 2024

Starting in 2016, the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft provides two full scholarships to students from Sub-Saharan Africa aged between 22 and 28 to participate in the Summer School.

The scholarships cover travel costs, accommodation and daily costs during the Summer School (meals and transportation).

Selection Process

We are looking for exceptionally motivated individuals with excellent communication skills, leadership qualities and capacity to work in a group in a collaborative way, who can demonstrate they will give a notable contribution to the Summer School and who can act as multipliers of the knowledge acquired at their home institutions.

Selected students are expected to act as ambassadors for TU Delft, the Department of Urbanism and the Delft Global Initiative and will help promote our learning philosophy and values.

This scholarship is only available to students from Sub-Saharan Africa . We strongly encourage female students to apply . (Please read our “diversity and opportunity” policy HERE).

Application for the scholarship ARE OPEN FROM 1 DECEMBER 2023.

The Selection Process will involve the following Steps

1. Application starts (DEC)
2. Evaluation of CV, letter of recommendation by teacher, letter of motivation and short video from students (After 1st FEB).
3. ZOOM interview from selected candidates from previous phase.
4. Announcement of recipients of scholarships.
5. Students will be provided with an invitation letter and assistance to obtain a Dutch visa. Visas are granted by the competent Dutch authorities and TU Delft has no say in the process. Students will be expected to travel to the Netherlands in July (exact dates will be announced later

Eligibility

This scholarship is intended for passport holders of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa between 22 and 28 years of age, studying in the following areas:

1. Architecture
2. Urban design
3. Spatial planning (town, urban and regional planning)
4. Environmental engineering
5. Water engineering
6. Urban law and management
7. Political sciences
8. Public administration
9. Areas that have a close relationship with planning and design of sustainable cities and communities.

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