WPA PhD Scholarships (Natural Sciences): Germany 4867 views

WPA PhD Scholarships for International Applicants, Germany for year 2021:  Water-People-Agriculture offers PhD grants for eligible and motivated MSc degree holders who are interested in starting a scientific career on water-related research topics at University of Hohenheim (Germany). Both, national and international applicants are eligible to apply for this scholarship program.

Scholarship funds: Basic rate of 1300 Euro/month

Duration: 36 months.

WPA additionally offers the opportunity to support the successful research projects with limited research funds.

Course Level: Scholarship is available for PhD program.

Subject Area: Theses Scholarships are awarded to students who are interested in starting a scientific career on water-related topics.

The scholarship is awarded for the research topic “integrative solutions to water issues & conflicts”.

Eligibility Conditions:  The applicant for a WPA PhD scholarship must:

1. Submit a high-quality proposal addressing one of the research topics
2. Be accepted as PhD-Student by the responsible faculty at the University of Hohenheim in order to take up your WPA scholarship
3. Foreign students must provide English language certificates to the faculty during the PhD admission process
4. Select the WPA doctoral school “water for life” as PhD study program after admission as a PhD student;
5. Be able to conduct innovative research;
6. Be available for the entire period of the PhD program.

Application Procedure: Please send WPA all the required documents of your application in one e-mail. None of the documents should exceed a file size of 5 MB.

Please compile all documents into two PDF files:

1. File 1: completed application form;
2. File 2: scanned cover letter & scanned copies of all relevant certificates obtained and passport photo;
3. the 2 recommendation letters should be sent separately (scanned) by the referees.

Please name all files in a systematic way: <applicant’s last name – WPA – file number>. To transform the documents into PDF one can download “FreePDF” as freeware.

Please submit all these documents to water4use-at-uni-hohenheim.de (only to this mail address!).

Further Information: Scholarship Link