Fellowship Scholarships for Africans , 2025 - 2026

The Media Sentinel Fellowships are aimed at strengthening information integrity in Southern Africa through social media monitoring. The fellowship will provide fellows with competitive stipends, training, and mentoring, while they contribute to safeguarding democracy and human rights in the region.

Applications are open for the Google PhD Fellowship Program 2025. The Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Africa CDC Short-term Bioinformatics Fellowship training program. Click here to learn more about thid opportunity and apply for it.

Are you dedicated to nurturing and growing your local ecosystem for Climate Tech entrepreneurship? Impact Pioneers '25 a leadership programme that welcomes you to exchange experiences with an international network of peers and gain first hand insights and experience from Sweden’s most successful Climate Tech entrepreneurship leaders and environments.

This semester-long fellowship is designed for engineering professors currently teaching at local universities in Nigeria who have recently completed their Ph.D. If you meet these criteria, we encourage you to apply!

The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), in partnership with Co-Develop, invites applications for the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Journalism Fellowship for Eastern Africa.

A 3-month fellowship for journalists and media professionals in Nigeria and Ghana interested in investigating AI and tech accountability. Includes funding, mentorship, and training.

Applications are open for the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) Policy Fellowship Program 2025. In this call, NIERA invites policymakers from eligible countries in West and East Africa to apply for a 6-week fellowship aimed at enhancing their knowledge and skills in evidence-informed policymaking. The fellowship begins with a one-week online course focused on evidence-informed policymaking.

Applications are now open for the 2026 MIT Africa Empowering the Teachers Fellowship Programme.The MIT-ETT Program is a prestigious, teaching-focused fellowship offered by the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) and proudly sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, TotalEnergies Upstream Nigeria Limited (TUPNI), and Partners.

Applications are now open for the 2026 CICOPS Scholarships. CICOPS scholarships are reserved for research collaboration in the short term in order to encourage the mobility of researchers from developing countries.