We would like to draw your attention to another upcoming ICRA course that may beinteresting for people within your organisation/networks. We would appreciate if you could spread this information among your extended networks and/or publicise it on your organisation’s website.
Design Management of Interactive Learning in Rural Innovation, 4 - 22 November 2013 (DM-IAL2013)
This course is intended for professional staff of extension and rural advisory services involved in linking relevant rural and agricultural stakeholders in joint learning and action-research programmes.
Deadline for course application to ICRA: 30 April 2013.
Fellowships are available for this course from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme for certain countries. The application period opens in 1 March 2013 and ends on 7 May 2013. Guidelines on how to apply for the fellowships are available from ICRA.

Link to the webpage with the course brochure and the ICRA application form: http://www.icra-edu.org/page.cfm?pageid=ardsharingDL2013
On ICRA:
ICRA is a well-known international centre with significant experience and know-how in building innovative capacity, at individual, organisational and institutional levels.
ICRA strengthens innovative capacity by providing training and coaching to professionals and to inter-organisational and multidisciplinary teams of staff from education, research and development organisations, in the following 4 areas:
• Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D)
• Agricultural Advisory Services and Innovation
• Agribusiness coaching
• Higher Education outreach and action research

ICRA organises courses for individuals and teams and coaches them further,  and partners in Higher Education and outreach with many universities in Africa (e.g. Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Benin, Burkina), research organisations, farmer and producer organisations, etc.  

ICRA alumni are in key positions in diverse fields across the world and report that  the ICRA courses benefit them and their organizations to a huge extent.

Kind regards, Ans Brom

The Global Women in Management Program (GWIM) strengthens women’s management, leadership and technical skills to enhance and bring to scale programs that advance women’s economic opportunities and build the next generation of women business leaders and entrepreneurs.  CEDPA GWIM leverages our expertise of women’s leadership programs and responds to the call for interventions that advance women in the economy and give women greater control over economic resources to impact the health and development of their families, communities and nations.

GWIM is supported by the ExxonMobil Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative, aglobal effort launched in 2005 to help women in developing countries fulfill their economic potential and serve as drivers of economic and social change in their communities.

APPLICANT CRITERIA

·         Indonesian citizen with minimum 8 years of experience in development programming.

·         Currently employed or volunteering with a non-governmental organizations, cooperatives, foundations, academia, business women’s association that implement projects targeting emerging and existing women business leaders and entrepreneurs with skills development, opportunities to start or grow a business, use of tools or technologies that advance women economically, and/or access to resources.

·         Minimum 2 years of experience working in women’s economic advancement programs.   (e.g., entrepreneurship, cooperatives, micro-credit, business women’s networks, etc.)

·         Fully committed and available to participate in entire 4-week workshop in Washington, DC., United States

·         Proficient in English (able to participate actively in discussions and presentations.)

Please send the application form attached at the latest by 15 March 2013 to: contributions.indonesia@exxonmobil.com

Only shortlisted candidates will be interviewed. Email address provided is for the purpose of workshop application only, any kind of unsolicited job application will not beentertained.

Salam teman2,

Saya mau berbagi info mengenai beasiswa TaiwanICDF. TaiwanICDF Scholarship yaknibeasiswa yang diberikan oleh lembaga donor Taiwan sedang membuka aplikasibeasiswa sejak 4 Januari 2013-15 Maret 2013 untuk intake Fall 2013. 

TaiwanICDF scholarship sendiri diberikan untuk tingkat Undergraduate, Master, dan PhD pada bidang-bidang yang menjadi concern dalam rangka pembangunan berkelanjutan di Universitas-Universitas Taiwan yang bekerjasama dengan TaiwanICDF. Perkuliahan dilakukan sepenuhnya dalam bahasa Inggris.

Scholarship Benefitnya mencakup :
Full scholarship, return airfare, housing, tuition, credit fees, insurance, textbook cost, and monthly allowance.

Adapun untuk program2 yang ditawarkan, eligibility dan prosedur aplikasinya silakan refer ke website berikut http://www.icdf.org.tw/ct.asp?xItem=12505&CtNode=30316&mp=2

Selengkapnya disini:

http://www.bigsss-bremen.de/admissions/phd/overview/

Sekilas informasi dari website diatas

The BIGSSS Ph.D. Program:

Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences ()BIGSSS invites applications to its Ph.D. program. The program will commence on September 1st, 2013.

Successful applicants for our Ph.D. fellowships will pursue a topic in one of BIGSSS' three Thematic Fields:

Field A: Global Governance and Regional Integration

Field B: Welfare State, Inequality and Quality of Life

Field C: Changing Lives in Changing Socio-Cultural Contexts

Applicants are asked to apply with their own research project broadly related to one of the three thematic fields.

However, against the background of foci of current research initiatives within the BIGSSS faculty, this year we additionally welcome applications that touch upon the following themes:

- Social Cohesion (Field B and C)

- Transnational social policy (Field A and B)

- The future of the middle class (Field B)

- Carrier groups of internationalized rule (Field A)

- Cross-National / Cross-Cultural Comparisons (Field C)

All fellows are expected to choose Bremen as their place of residence.

Financial Support:

BIGSSS offers 15 Ph.D. stipends of 1300 Euros/month for 36 months, contingent on successful completion of each year. To support its Ph.D. fellows in achieving early scientific independence, it also provides funds for conducting, presenting and publishing research. There is no separate funding application, because all admitted applicants receive a stipend.

Admission Requirements:

• An excellent MA degree (or national equivalents like the German "Diplom" or "Magister") in a discipline pertinent to at least one of BIGSSS' three Thematic fields (see above), i.e. in Political Science (including related degree programs in European Studies or International Relations), Sociology, Psychology, Law, Economics or Mass Communication. The degree must be completed by the end of July of the year of application, which means you may apply before having finished your MA degree.
• English proficiency as described in the application materials section below.
• Additionally BIGSSS offers 2 Preparatory Fellowships to particularly talented BA Graduates. Please refer to Predoctoral Fellowships to find out more about the program. 

Diversity and Anti-Discrimination:

BIGSSS believes that diverse backgrounds and ideas are crucial to academic excellence. Therefore, BIGSSS welcomes and promotes diversity and ensures equal opportunity and inclusion for all of its members regardless of ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age or (dis-)ability. More information and contact details of our Equal Opportunities Officers can be found here.

Application Deadline:

The application period for the Fall 2013 semester will begin in the middle of December 2012 and go until March 15th, 2013. The deadline refers to the date of receipt of the application. All letters of recommendation must also reach BIGSSS by March 15th, 2013.

Email inquiries about the application process should be sent to admissions-officerbigsss-bremen.de. Or you may call the admissions officer, Agata Kraj, at 0049 (0) 421 200 3956.

If you have questions regarding the admissions process, please consult our Frequently Asked Questions after carefully reading the website.

ENS Cachan International Scholarship Programme 2013-2014

The International Scholarship Programme of the ENS Cachan is aimed at high level international students who are currently studying or have studied and obtained their most recent qualification outside of France.

The grant amounts to 1000 euros/month, for a duration of stay of 6 to 12 months.

In order to participate in the programme :

• Please read attentively the ENS Cachan International Scholarship Regulations before filling in the application form
• Send your application by e-mail at boursi13[AT]ens-cachan.fr and the paper application at:

Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan

Relations internationales

61, Avenue du Président Wilson

94235 Cachan cedex - France

Application deadline for reception by email and by regular mail :

25 March 2013

Selengkapnya silakan dilihat di website berikut dan 2 lampiran

http://www.ens-cachan.fr/version-anglaise/profiles/coming-to-the-ens-cachan-students/ens-cachan-international-scholarship-programme-2013-2014-187862.kjsp?RH=1205847093522#KLINK

The Georg Forster Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics of all disciplines whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and beyond and who are expected to continue developing research-based solutions to the specific challenges facing transition and developing countries.

Nominees must be nationals of a developing or transition country (excluding People's Republic of China and India; cf. detailed list of countries). Furthermore, at the time of nomination, they must have had their main residence and place of work in one of these countries for at least five years.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation particularly encourages the nomination of qualified female researchers.

The award amount totals EUR 60,000. In Germany, research awards are generally exempt from income tax under German tax law.

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Selengkapnya silakan akses di website berikut:

http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/georg-forster-award.html