The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from Mastercard Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching an Early-Career Research Fellowship programme that will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s thirteen (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
Each fellowship will last six months, between July 2025 and June 2026.
A maximum of four fellows will be assigned to each CoE, with all positions filled by December 2025. At least 70% of the fellowships are reserved for female candidates, and applicants must be no older than 35 years at the time of application.
For further details and application procedure, please click: https://arua.org/early-career-research-fellowships-2025/
ARUA is a network of universities across Africa. These universities share a common vision of making African researchers and their institutions globally competitive while contributing to knowledge generation for Africa’s socio-economic transformation.
Member universities include: University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Addis Ababa University; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Makerere University, University of Cape Town, Rhodes University among others.
