2012 Ofid Scholarships For Students From Developing Countries

Overview

OFID (The OPEC Fund for International Development) is pleased to denote that qualified applicants who guide hold obtained or are on the verge of completing their undergraduate score together with who wishing to report for a Master's score are welcome to utilize for the OFID Scholarship 2012. The OFID Scholarship volition live awarded to back upwards 2 students or candidates for Master’s score studies. The applicant may live from whatsoever developing country, together with he/she must get-go obtain admission to pursue a Master's (graduate) score inwards whatsoever recognized university/college inwards the world. The Scholarship is opened upwards to those students who wishing to pursue studies inwards a relevant patch of Development or Energy Studies.

Through its scholarship scheme, OFID aims to assistance highly motivated, highly-driven individuals overcome ane of the biggest challenges to their careers – the terms of graduate studies.

Value of the scholarship

The winner of the OFID Scholarship Award volition have a total tuition scholarship of upwards to US$50,000. The funds volition live spread over a maximum of ane year, toward the completion of a Master’s degree, or its equivalent, at an accredited educational institution, starting inwards the tumble of the academic twelvemonth 2012.

Eligibility

 Must live betwixt the ages of 23-32 at the fourth dimension of submitting his/her application.
 Must guide hold obtained or live on the verge of completing their undergraduate score amongst a Baccalaureate from an accredited college/university, or its equivalent.
 Must guide hold a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 rating system, or its equivalent.
 Must live matriculated at an accredited academy for the upcoming academic twelvemonth starting August/September 2012, together with must keep full-time condition for the duration of the Master's Degree.
 Must live a national of a developing province (please reckon listing of eligible countries below)
 Must pick out a dependent patch of report that pertains to OFID’s gist mission, such as: economic science of evolution (poverty reduction, unloose energy together with sustainable development), surround (desertification), or other related scientific discipline together with technology scientific discipline fields.

PLEASE NOTE: Kindly read ALL of the directions below earlier proceeding amongst the application process:

Applicants are responsible for gathering together with submitting all necessary information. Applications volition live evaluated based on the information provided. Therefore, all questions should live answered equally thoroughly equally possible. Incomplete applications volition non live considered. Once an application has been submitted, no changes volition live allowed on it.

OFID volition non consider applications received through a 3rd party.

Please create non telephone hollo upwards or e-mail OFID to inquire if your application has been received, or to inquire almost your status.

Please greenback that alone the winner volition live notified.

All materials submitted larn the belongings of OFID together with volition non live returned to the applicant.

Applicants must consummate the on-line application.

Within the on-line application, applicants must upload the required documents equally listed below inwards Section III. All materials including the on-line application, recommendations, together with other required information must live received no afterwards than May 28, 2012.

Eligible Countries

* In add-on to nationals of OFID Member States (Algeria, Gabon, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,  United Arab Emirates, Venezuela), nationals of the next countries are too eligible: 

Africa	Asia & the Middle East	Latin America & the Caribbean	Europe
A
Angola	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan	Antigua	Albania
B
Benin Botswana Burundi Burkina Faso	Bangladesh Bahrain Bhutan	Barbuda Belize Barbados Brazil Bolivia	Bosnia together with Herzegovina
C
Cameroon Cape Verde Chad Central African Republic Comoros Congo  DR Republic of Congo Cote d'lvoire	Cambodia	Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba
D
Djibouti		Dominica Dominican Republic
E
Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia		Ecuador El Salvador
F
	Fiji
G
Gambia Ghana Guinea Republic of Guinea Bissau		Grenada Guyana Guatemala Guyana
H
		Haiti Haiti Honduras
I
	India
J
	Jordan	Jamaica
K
Kenya	Kazakhstan Kiribati Korea D P R Kyrgyz Republic		Kosovo
L
Lesotho Liberia	Lao PDR
M
Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique	Maldives Moldova Mongolia Myanmar
N
Namibia Niger	Nepal	Nicaragua,
O
	Oman
P
	Pakistan Palestine Papua New Guinea Philippines	Paraguay Peru Panama
R
Rwanda,
S
Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Swaziland São Tomé & Principe	Samoa Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Syria,	St. Christopher St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia, Saint Vincent together with the Grenadines, Suriname
T
Tanzania Togo Tunisia	Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Turkey Turkmenistan
U
Uganda	Ukraine Uzbekistan	Uruguay
V
	Vietnam,
Y
	Yemen
Z
Zambia Zimbabwe

Required Documents

 A completed on-line application form.
 A scanned re-create of the applicants passport.
 A scanned re-create of the lastly academy score or certificate.
 A scanned missive of the alphabet of credence from chosen educational institution, confirming your admission, dependent patch of report together with duration of the Master’s score plan (must non hap ane year).
 A proof of coming together whatsoever prerequisites, including linguistic communication proficiency.
 A brusk essay – of almost 500 words inwards English linguistic communication – giving reasons for applying for the OFID scholarship, explaining your educational goals, together with clearly describing how yous volition locomote the sense gained from your Master's score studies to assistance inwards the evolution of your dwelling country.
 Two letters of recommendation from professors and/or lecturers at applicant's acquaint university.
 Curriculum Vitae (CV).

 A completed on-line application form.
 A scanned re-create of the applicant’s passport.
 A scanned re-create of the lastly academy score or certificate.
 A scanned missive of the alphabet of credence from chosen educational institution, confirming your admission, dependent patch of report together with duration of the Master’s score plan (must non hap ane year).
 A proof of coming together whatsoever prerequisites, including linguistic communication proficiency.
 A brusk essay – of almost 500 words inwards English linguistic communication – giving reasons for applying for the OFID scholarship, explaining your educational goals, together with clearly describing how yous volition locomote the sense gained from your Master's score studies to assistance inwards the evolution of your dwelling country.
 Two letters of recommendation from professors and/or lecturers at applicant's acquaint university.
 Curriculum Vitae (CV).

Application Guidelines (how to apply)

 STEP 1: Ensure that yous fulfill the OFID Scholarship Award Eligibility Criteria.

 STEP 2: Register inside the OFID Scholarship Portal past times using your e-mail address. Please greenback yous tin log onto the portal equally many times equally required earlier finally submitting the application.

 STEP 3: Fill out the application form. Make certain to relieve information each fourth dimension yous update your application. Once yous are logged in, if the page remains inactive for to a greater extent than than 2 hours, your session volition time-out together with yous may lose unsaved data. Do non submit your application until yous guide hold completed the entire application process!

 STEP 4: Upload necessary documents; CV, 2 recommendation letters, Bachelor's certificate/transcript, credence missive of the alphabet into postgraduate plan together with essay.

 STEP 5: When your application is complete, together with all additional documents are uploaded, your application is prepare to live submitted. Once your application is submitted, yous tin no longer brand whatsoever changes or upload whatsoever to a greater extent than documents.

The application deadline is May 28, 2012. Please create non telephone hollo upwards or e-mail OFID to reckon if your application has been received or to inquire almost your status. You volition have an automated confirmation ane application has been submitted. Only the winner volition live notified by June 14, 2012

Contact Information

OFID
The OPEC Fund for International Development Parkring 8, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 995, A-1011 Vienna, Austria
Telephone: +43-1-515 64-0 Fax: +43-1-513 92 38
Email: info@ofid.org
http://www.ofid.org/



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