CARIBU Scholarship and Mobility Programme
2016 Scholarship Awards
The University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) is happy to announce the award of scholarships to seven (7) University of Ghana students to pursue various PhD and Master Exchange programmes in 2016/2017 academic year.
Ghana: 7 selected candidates First name Last name Level Program Duration Host university Issah Musah PhD Humanities 10 months Mendel U Richmond Baye Master Exchange Economics and Development 5 months Mendel U Peter Adjei-Bamfo Master Exchange International Development 5 months Mendel U Andrew Nii Nortey Dowuona Master Exchange Chemical Technology and Engineering5 months SUT Ernest Gyan Bediako Master Exchange Chemical Technology and Engineering5 months SUT Kwaku Duodu NkansahMaster Exchange Chemical Technology and Engineering5 months VUB Emmanuel Agyeman Master degree Thermal Energy 10 months U Nantes
CARIBU is an Erasmus Mundus Action2 partnership program that aims at increasing academic mobility, research and capacity building opportunities between 8 EU universities in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Poland, Portugal, Romania and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries including Bahamas, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Suriname, Timor-Leste, and Samoa. UGBS is representing University of Ghana on the consortium.
The program seeks to stimulate academic mobility between ACP and EU higher education institutions for experience sharing, capacity building and fostering further cooperation in areas of research and education among partner universities. It is devoted to creating a mutual forum for scientific cooperation, learning enhancement and exchange of best practices among EU-ACP universities.
The programme offers scholarships to Masters and PhD students as well as academic and administrative staff. In 3 cohorts, a total of 210 students, academic and administrative staff from the 12 ACP countries will be selected to benefit from the programme for a period of 4 years. These include 152 Masters, 27 PhDs, and 31 academic and administrative staff.
EU Partner Institutions 1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Coordinating Institution) 2. Ghent University, Belgium 3. Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic 4. Aalborg University, Denmark 5. Université de Nantes, France 6. Politechnika Slaska (Silesian University of Technology), Poland 7. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 8. Universitatea Technica din Cluj-Napoca, Romania
ACP Partners
1. The College of The Bahamas, Bahamas 2. University of Buea, Cameroon 3. Université Catholique de Bukavu, DRC (Congo-Kinshasa) 4. Jimma University, Ethiopia 5. The University of The Gambia, Gambia 6. University of Ghana Business School, Ghana 7. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique 8. National University of Samoa, Samoa 9. Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname, Suriname 10. Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania 11. Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e, Timor-Leste 12. Makerere University, Uganda
For additional information please contact the following:
Dean UGBS [email protected]
Dr. Albert Ahenkan [email protected] UGBS