African Women Public Service Fellowship: Wagner announces a call for applications for the African Women Public Service Fellowship, a fellowship program made possible by a donation from the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, which expands the opportunity for African women to prepare for public service in their home countries.

Host Institution(s): NYU Wagner, USA.

Field of study:

As fellows at NYU Wagner, African women study in one of two graduate programs: the two-year Master of Public Administration or the one-year Executive MPA: Concentration on International Public Service Organizations.

Target group: African Women

Scholarship value/inclusions:

The awards for either program will support tuition, housing, travel to and from the United States and a small stipend to cover books and miscellaneous expenses.

Fellowship Application Eligibility Criteria:

• be citizens and resident in an African country at the time of application.
• NYU Wagner’s admissions committee pays particular attention to applications from women who possess strong academic records;
• who have a demonstrated commitment to public service;
• for whom a Wagner education would significantly enhance their ability to have a deep and lasting impact on public service issues in their home country and region.
• Applicants commit to return to their respective home countries at the conclusion of the program with the goal of assuming a leadership position on the continent where they can meaningfully contribute to the challenges currently confronting Africa.

Application instructions:

• There are not special forms or applications to fill out to be considered for the African Women Public Service Fellowship.
• You will automatically be considered for all scholarships, including the African Women Public Service Fellowship.

Contact information: Admissions (program inquiries) can be sent to: wagner.admissions [at] nyu.edu

For More Information and Application, Please Visit; African Women Public Service Fellowship Website

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Doctoral Scholarships in Law, Science and Technology: There are excellent fellowship opportunities for students accepted to the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme in “Law, Science and Technology.”

Fellowships can be awarded to doctoral candidates, selected by EM LAST-JD consortium, who come from a country other than:

• a Member State of the European Union
• an EEA-EFTA State (i.e. Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein)

The Joint International Doctoral Degree in “Law, Science and Technology” is an interdisciplinary integrated doctorate designed to address new challenges in legal, socio-ethical and technical domains arising from the information society and newly emerging technologies.

There are rapidly evolving sectors of Information Technology andLife Sciences that need legal and ethical instruments for avoiding malpractice and for shaping policies and strategies in conducting scientific research and disseminating its results to industry and society.

New opportunities emerge to use Information Technology to face the complexity of Law in contemporary society. All this requires a set of interdisciplinary competencies that are usually lacking in the graduate market due to a lack of vision and strategy.

The “Law, Science and Technology” doctorate aims to address the problem of fragmentation that exists in Europe in this interdisciplinary area, by setting up a robust doctoral programme inspired by the Stanford programme in Law, Science and Technology, while also addressing the unique requirements of Europe by looking at the impact of European cultural identities on ethical, medical and legal discussion, as well as at the specifics of European regulations.

The programme covers three different research fields with its curricula:

• “Bioethics and Biolaw”, which looks at the legal and ethical problems of advances in biology and medicine;
• “ICT Law”, addressing the legal risks and opportunities in ICT, and
• “Legal Informatics”, an area of informatics taking into account legal issues, including alI techniques applied to legal domain.

For more information, contact: Doctoral Scholarships in Law, Science and Technology

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