PhD grants for ICP graduates

Every year VLIR-UOS provides 10 scholarships to graduates from a VLIR-UOS funded ICP Master programme,  who wish to carry out research on a development topic, in a so-called sandwich programme.

The research and doctoral programme are geographically spread over two locations, namely your academic home institution and a Flemish university
The call is open for :

  • everyone who graduated with distinction (cum laude) from the academic year 2006-2007 onwards or will be graduating with distinction in the academic year 2011-12 from. 
    For K.U.Leuven these are:
    • Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering
    • Master of Science in Food Technology
    • Master of Science in Molecular Biology
    • Master of Science in Human Settlements
  • Candidates must be nationals and  residents of a developing country of the VLIR-UOS country list which was valid in the year they started their ICP-Master study.

More information about eligibility criteria as well as other important downloads can be found on the VLIR-UOS scholarship website

The deadline to submit your application is February 24th 2012.

All files should be submitted via the official K.U.Leuven application procedure in soft copy (www.kuleuven.be/application) as well as sent in hard copy to: mathias.groenweghe@int.kuleuven.be

Please read the call very carefully concerning all eligibility criteria, only complete applications will be taken under consideration