E-JUST TICAD7 African Scholarship for STI Fall 2022 - Fully Funded
This Scholarship program is stipulated in the “Yokohama Plan of Actions 2019” for the implementation of “Yokohama Declaration 2019” which was agreed in TICAD7 in August 2019. The objective of this program is to foster researchers and engineers who will advance STI into the future in Africa. The program is implemented by Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)’s technical cooperation project. EJUST started to accept students in the fall semester of 2020, and the application for a new batch, fall 2022, is now open.
Awarded Degree:
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology offers opportunities of advanced study and academic research to Graduate students. The programs involve Master’s and Doctoral courses leading to the corresponding degrees (M.Sc. and Ph.D.). Accepted applicants to the programs will be enrolled in the next fall 2022 semester, which will begin on September 25, 2022. Lectures and instructions for research are given generally in English.
Study Duration:
The maximum period to complete the Master program study and obtain the MSc degree is three academic years. However, the student can be graduated and obtain the MSc degree after two years from the enrollment if he/she can finish all the graduation requirements in these two years.
The maximum period to complete the PhD program study and obtain the PhD degree is five academic years. However, the student can graduate and obtain the PhD degree after three years from the enrollment if he/she can finish all the graduation requirements in this period.
The scholarship’s term is the period necessary to complete the degree requirements in EJUST, which should be two years for the M.Sc. degree preceded by 6 months for preparatory courses (if necessary).
For the PhD degree the scholarship term is three years preceded by 6 months for preparatory courses (if necessary).
Preparatory Course
The objectives of the preparatory courses are:
- To cover the deficiencies of E-JUST PG applicants in the basic research skills, English languages, computer programming, statistics and liberal arts.
- To prepare E-JUST PG students to the required nature of PG study in E-JUST including Japanese culture, Japanese language, Arabic language for international students, Research and Publications ethic and method.
- To make the PG students familiar with E-JUST labs, center of excellences and professors before registering the point of research and before the formation of the supervision committee. This will help the student in the proper selection of the research point and supervision committee
Schedule:
Early December 2021: Call for application
International Admission page: https://ejust.edu.eg/international-admission-adm/
International Admission Policy: https://ejust.edu.eg/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/FOE-BAS-Fall-2022-International-Admission-Guidelines1.pdf
December 30, 2021: Application open
February 12, 2022: Deadline for online application
September 2022: Class starts