TWAS-TÜBİTAK Postgraduate Fellowship Programme (developing country scholars in Turkey)

The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

The TWAS-TÜBİTAK Postgraduate Fellowship Programme is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS/UNESCO). The programme supports scholars from developing countries in the South who wish to pursue part of their research toward a PhD in a field of the natural and related applied sciences in the departments and laboratories of public and private universities of Türkiye (Turkey) and TÜBİTAK Research Centers and Institutes.

The fellowship supports research in the following subject areas:

  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Biological Systems and Organisms
  • Medical and Health Sciences incl. Neurosciences
  • Chemical Sciences
  • Engineering Sciences
  • Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Physics
  • Computing and Information Technology.

Applicants must be nationals or permanent residents of a developing country. The fellowship provides stipend, visa, travel costs and additional expenses for 6 to 12 months.

Applications close on December 16, 2024.