Grameen Foundation Fellowship Programme 2013

Deadline: March 31, 2013.

Grameen Foundation invites applications from volunteers for its 2013 Fellowship Programme. The foundation helps the world’s poorest to improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to appropriate financial services, life-changing information and unique income-generating opportunities. Grameen believes that together, we are a global force fighting poverty and invited you to become a Grameen Foundation Fellow.

Benefits

The Grameen Foundation Fellowship program benefits include:

• Hands-on field experience on assignments tailored to match your skills and interests with the needs of our local field offices in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
• 1 year program, starting this summer
• Inaugural class will contain up to 10 fellows
• Pre-departure training, ongoing support and professional development opportunities
• Local living stipend included*
• You will have the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in global development and social innovation on projects that make a difference in the lives of the poor. Join the innovation, on the ground.

Eligibility

• The Fellowship Program is open to both US and foreign applicants.
• Applicants must have at least three years of applicable work experience or one year of work experience
• They must have an advanced degree to be eligible to apply.
• English fluency is required for all fellows; Spanish fluency is required for all placements in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Note:

All fellows will receive a stipend to cover their living expenses and lodging during their placement. Fellows are responsible for health insurance, airfare, and visa costs. Visa assistance may be available depending on legal requirements of individual countries

Further information: http://www.grameenfoundation.org/fellowships

Fully-funded Fellowship for Theater Project 2013

Deadline: 07/01/2013

Are you excited about reaching out to people through theater? Do you want to start a venture that will impact people in your home country? Then apply for the unique one year D&F Academy Theater Project! Come to the D&F Academy Hamburg for ten weeks and learn how to write and stage a theater piece. During the subsequent ten months you will create your own venture in your home country as part of the D&F Academy DreamMaker Program. Apply till January 7th,2013 at www.dfacademy.org

Web Link: http://dfacademy.org/

A Year by Ashoka

Deadline: This Fall (September 2012)

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH A*Year?
Curious? Collaborative? Creative? Then come work with us.


A*Year is a new program for recent university graduates (at both the Bachelors and Masters level), or for courageous students eager to take time away from school. For 13 months, you’ll be matched with an Ashoka team in our DC office and work with them full-time, immersed in Ashoka’s unique and collaborative work environment. You will learn with, and from, other A*Year Associates and Ashoka’s senior leaders. If you’re creative, entrepreneurial, and crave the opportunity to contribute to something big, then A*year is for you.

We are currently accepting applications on a rolling basis for candidates ready to start between now and the Fall of 2012. Apply at www.ashoka.org/staff-app. We are looking forward to getting to know you.




Further information: http://www.ashoka.org/a-year

Bayer Fellowship Program Promoting outstanding talent 2012

Deadline: July 15, 2012

For an inventor company like Bayer, young up-and-coming talent is fundamental to long-term success. The Bayer Science & Education Foundation therefore attaches great importance to promoting young talent in Germany and abroad and helping them get their careers off to a good start.

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Frauke Schaffrath and Lars Röddiger gained valuable medical experience at St. George's University in Grenada

The foundation’s scholarship programs have two main areas of focus – the regular Bayer Fellowship Program for scholarship projects and placements abroad, and additional offerings aimed at specific target groups.

The regular Bayer Fellowship Program is geared to students and trainees in scientific, technical and medical disciplines. Internationalism is a central aspect of this program, and therefore the foundation grants scholarships exclusively to applicants from German-speaking countries wishing to go abroad and foreign applicants who want to come to Germany.

The program comprises the following scholarships:

• Otto Bayer Scholarships for students studying selected natural science and engineering disciplines
• Carl Duisberg Scholarships for students of human and veterinary medicine 
• Kurt Hansen Scholarships for students training to become science teachers
• Hermann Strenger Scholarships for trainees and young professionals with a non-academic background working in the areas of technology, natural sciences, health care and business

The current call for applications for the Otto Bayer, Carl Duisberg, Kurt Hansen and Hermann Strenger Scholarships is taking place during the period from June 1 to July 15, 2012. The independent Foundation Board will hold its next selection meeting on September 7, 2012. 

Click here for the online application form: 

Otto Bayer, Carl Duisberg and Kurt Hansen Scholarships
Hermann Strenger Scholarships

The regular Bayer Fellowship Program is complemented by special additional offerings, which currently comprise:

• The Bayer Deutschlandstipendien – as part of the German government’s national Scholarship Program Act, the foundation sponsors 100 talented students of natural sciences or engineering at 23 German universities 
• The Bayer Lindau Fellowships – the foundation enables selected young scientists from around the world to take part in the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau 
• The Bayer Climate Fellowships – the foundation enables schoolchildren to take part in an international science camp on environmental protection and sustainability

Further information: http://www.bayer-foundations.com/en/bayer-fellowship-program.aspx