To enable promising graduates of the International Courses (ICPs – ICPs are Master programmes that receive institutional support from VLIR-UOS) to make a PhD at a Flemish university, VLIR-UOS launched its ICP PhD programme in 2003. The ICP Ph.D. programme aims to institutionally strengthen universities or research institutions in the South through capacity building, by upgrading local academic personnel by offering Ph D scholarships. Every year VLIR-UOS provides 10 scholarships to people who wish to carry out research on a development topic, in a so-called sandwich programme.
The research and doctoral program are geographically spread over two locations, namely the academic home institution and a Flemish university. In this way both local and Flemish expertise are combined to offer you and both research groups a win-win effect. The selection committee research scholarships assesses and ranks all proposals according to quality and relevance for the South.

Target group: The call is open for people who graduated not earlier than 2007, or will graduate in 2012, from a Flemish, VLIR-UOS funded Master programme (ICP).

Deadline for submission: 24th of February 2012.
More information & documents: http://vliruos.be/index.php?language=NL&navid=572&direct_to=ICP_Ph_D___beurzen_2012