Deadline: 30 April 2015
The Carnegie Corporation on New York’s board of trustees is calling applications for grant for the Carnegie Fund for Conference Attendance (CFCA), a competitive fund to support African beneficiaries of Corporation-supported postgraduate degree and postdoctoral programs to present papers at major international conferences.
Between 100 and 120 conference attendance awards will be made on a competitive basis by the end of 2016.
The fund will be managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE). IIE is among the world’s largest and most experienced international exchange organizations, whose mission it is to advance international education and access to education worldwide. IIE currently implements more than 200 programs, benefiting over 30,000 men and women from 185 nations. Funders include the U.S. Department of State in support of the Fulbright Program, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); major philanthropic foundations; private and public corporations; foreign governments; and individuals.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must hold an academic appointment at an African university and must have completed a postgraduate degree or postdoctoral fellowship with substantial Corporation support or be a current Corporation-supported fellow in good standing.
- Beneficiaries who have completed their doctoral or master’s degrees or postdoctoral fellowships will be given first priority for awards, followed by doctoral candidates and current postdoctoral fellows, and, finally, master’s candidates.
- Selections will be made by an IIE-constituted committee on the basis of the following criteria:
- Significance of the conference to the applicant’s field (in this instance, “international” refers to the composition of the conference attendees rather than the geographic location of the conference);
- Distance of the conference from the applicant’s university; and
- The strength of the applicant’s plan to make the most of the opportunity, both for his or her own professional development and for his or her department/faculty/university.
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