Scholarships

The Nordic Africa Institute supports studies on Africa in the Nordic countries through four types of grants. Within the travel grants programme, some 30-40 scholars from universities in the Nordic countries are sponsored annually for short research trips to Africa in connection with ongoing research projects. The study grants programme permits some 30 students, teachers and journalists at Nordic universities, to spend one month in Uppsala using the Institute's library resources. The Nordic guest researchers' programme is aimed at researchers in the Nordic countries and awards grants for a maximum stay of two months. The African guest researchers' scholarship programme is one way of fulfilling the Institute's aim to promote cooperation and contact between Nordic and African researchers. It was established in order to give African researchers an opportunity to make use of the resources of the Institute. On average, five to six scholars per year are invited to spend between two and three months at the Institute, working on their own projects. A few independently financed guest researchers visit the Institute every year.