The Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) is a demand-driven fellowship programme designed to promote capacity building within organizations by offering training and education to their mid-career staff members.
NFP-fellowships cover your travel costs, accommodation and course fee. NFP is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the budget for development co-operation, and run by NUFFIC, the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education. Half of the available fellowships are awarded to women, and simultaneously, half of the available budget is spent on candidates from sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from this, priority is given to candidates from deprived groups and/or from marginalized regions.
Who is eligible for NFP?
To be eligible for a scholarship under the Netherlands Fellowship Programmes you must meet the following criteria:
·: justify;”>· You are not applying for more than one course with the same NFP application deadline
· You are not employed by a multinational corporation, a UN organisation, the World Bank, the IMF, a bilateral or multinational donor organisation, or a large national and/or commercial organisation
· You have not already received two NFP fellowships for short courses in the past
· You have not already received an NFP fellowship for short courses in the year prior to this fellowship application
What has changed in the new procedure?
· Nuffic introduced a new application procedure for the NFP programme in 2010. The most important changes were that:
· NFP applicants no longer have to receive a conditional letter of acceptance for the course they are applying for from RNTC before applying for an NFP fellowship
· RNTC course applications and NFP fellowship applications can be submitted at the same time
· NFP applications are no longer submitted to the Fellowship Officers of the appropriate Dutch Embassy but are submitted directly to the NUFFIC either online or by post
· NFP applicants can check the status of their application online and will be informed automatically of the progress, acceptance and/or rejection of their NFP application
· A paper application form is no longer available for download on the Nuffic website. All applications have to be submitted through SOL. Applicants who encounter difficulties while applying online can contact Nuffic for assistance from the NFP/SOL team. Candidates who continue to experience problems with SOL, will receive a paper application form from Nuffic by e-mail. Applying on paper will be a last resort for those candidates who have serious difficulties submitting their applications online. Please note that Nuffic will send paper forms up to/until two weeks before the applicable paper application deadline. If you are submitting your NFP application online or on paper, make sure that you do so before the deadline for online and paper (a month earlier) applications.
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