Apply! MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP)

The MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP) enables professionals from ten selected countries to participate in a short course in the Netherlands. The overall aim of the MSP is to contribute to the democratic transition in the participating countries. It also aims at building capacity within organisations, by enabling employees to take part in short courses in various fields of study.
There are scholarships available for short courses with a duration of two to twelve weeks.

Target group: The MSP target group consists of professionals, aged up to 45, who are nationals of and work in one of the selected countries.
Scholarships are awarded to individuals, but the need for training must be demonstrated within the context of the organisation for which the applicant works. The training must help the organisation develop its capacity. Therefore, applicants must be nominated by their employers who have to motivate their nomination in a supporting letter.

Deadline
April 2018. Participating institutions have different application deadlines. Please check the website of your desired school for individual deadline

Field
Economics
Commerce
Management and Accounting
Agriculture and Environment
Mathematics
Natural sciences and Computer sciences
Engineering
Law Public Administration
Public order and Safety
Humanities
Social sciences
Communication and Arts

Value
A MENA scholarship is a contribution to the costs of the selected short course and is intended to supplement the salary that the scholarship holder must continue to receive during the study period.
The following items are covered:
-subsistence allowance
-international travel costs
-visa costs
-course fee
-medical insurance
-allowance for study materials.
The allowances are considered to be sufficient to cover one person’s living expenses during the study period. The scholarship holders must cover any other costs from their own resources.

Eligibility
-must be a national of, and working and living in one of the countries on the MSP country list valid at the time of application;
-must have an employer’s statement that complies with the format EP-Nuffic has provided. All information must be provided and all commitments that are included in the format must be endorsed in the statement;
-must not be employed by an organisation that has its own means of staff-development. Organisations that are considered to have their own means for staff development are for example:
multinational corporations (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft),
-large national and/or a large commercial organisations,
-bilateral donor organisations (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid),
-multilateral donor organisations, (e.g. a UN organization, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB),
international NGO’s (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care);
-must have an official and valid passport (valid at least three months after the candidate’s submission date);
-must have a government statement that meets the requirements of the country in which the employer is established (if applicable);
must not be over 45 years of age at the time of the grant submission.

Application
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