The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, a joint initiative of the African Union and the European Union supports higher education cooperation between countries in Africa and aims to promote sustainable development by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional manpower in Africa.

BRAINS is the acronym for MoBility for Research and African Integration through Health Sciences. This is an application for intra-African mobility funded by the EU in the Horizon 2020 program. The project will be able to train Masters and PhD students between the six African countries. We will also support short term staff mobilities for up to six months each within the consortium.

The technical partner is the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in France

To be eligible for the scholarship, masters and doctoral students must:

• Must be a national and/ or resident of an eligible country.
• At the time of the application for a scholarship, be registered/admitted in their final year or have obtained their most recent degree (or equivalent) from:
  1. one of the higher education institutions included in the partnership (Target Group 1);
     or
  2. a higher education institution not included in the partnership but established in an eligible country (Target Group 2)
• Have sufficient knowledge of the language of instruction in the host institution.
• Meet the specific requirements of the host institution.

For staff to be eligible for BRAINS scholarships, they need to comply with the following criteria:

• Be a national and resident in any of the eligible countries.
• Work in or be associated with a partner higher education institution.
• Have sufficient knowledge of the operational language in the host institution.

A detailed list of the available programmes can be found under the section BRAINS Courses in the BRAINS website.

First Step: The Coordination Office will verify all applications and will invalidate those that do not comply with the eligibility criteria established by the programme, the partnership and the host institution.

Second Step: Eligible applications will be considered by the BRAINS Student Selection Committee, which comprises representatives from each partner institution who are experienced academics.

Third Step: The Coordinating Office will send the home and host institutions a list of selected scholarship holders for participation in the BRAINS mobility project.

Fourth Step: All applicants will be informed by e-mail of the application outcome.

Visit the section “Apply now” on the website for instructions on how to complete your application. ONLY ONLINE APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

Details of additional documentation needed, or which visa to apply for, are communicated to successful applicants (after receipt, review and assessment of their applications).

The BRAINS individual scholarships covers:

• Roundtrip flight ticket and visa costs
• Participation costs such as tuition fees, registration fees and service fees where applicable
• Insurance (health, accident, travel);
• A settling-in allowance
• A monthly subsistence allowance
• Allowances for female scholarship holders
• A contribution towards the research costs associated with student mobility of 10 months or longer

Full details on the financial conditions of the scholarship can also be found under ‘Scholarship-Financial support of the Scholarship’.

Write to us using our online contact form and an email reply will be returned to you, or contact us via email provided in the contact us tab

All submitted applications will be stored as read-only documents in a protected database. The legal requirements of the partner universities concerning the manipulation of personal data will be observed and the information submitted online will remain confidential. The data will only be accessed by authorized persons at the host institutions and at the Coordination Office. Members of the Selection Committee will have confidential access to the data.