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Deadline: March 31, 2023
The African Research Fellowship (ARF) program, jointly carried out by ESA with the African Union Commission, was successfully initiated in 2021, with two African fellows selected to conduct their ESA research in 2022. It aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master’s degree with extensive research experience) to carry out Earth Observation (EO) R&D activities relevant to the EO AFRICA Initiative. The African Research Fellows shall maximise the use of EO data in synergy with in-situ and state-of-the-art modelling approaches in a cloud environment to respond to the African continent’s challenges in water resources management and food security.
With this call, ESA offers 1-year fellowships to four African Researchers to work at the ESA-ESRIN premises in Frascati (Rome, Italy) in collaboration with ESA’s scientists.
The African Research Fellowship aims to achieve this objective by:
- R&D activities are undertaken by young African researchers with a focus on major African challenges and knowledge gaps, which may support African and global environmental and development agendas.
- Exploiting ICT capabilities that help to maximise the use of Earth Observation data available over the continent and promoting an open science approach where sharing data, results, and knowledge is at the core of the value chain.
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Research Areas
Candidates shall propose a 1-year R&D proposal contributing to Water resources management or Food security issues. Proposals focusing on smallholder needs (e.g. farming, agricultural water use, regenerative agriculture, water productivity, irrigation systems, nutrients management, infestations…) or related to coastal processes (e.g. ecosystems, coastal waters, coastal geomorphology and change, coastal urbanization, tourism…) and fisheries (e.g. aquaculture, habitat suitability, blooms, implications of climate change…) are especially welcome.
The activity will be coordinated and aligned with the EO AFRICA R&D Initiative, which provides training opportunities and scientific tools for the selected African research fellows. The EO AFRICA Space Academy and its Digital Campus will give access to a wide range of expertise and knowledge to be shared with research fellows. The EO AFRICA Innovation Lab will allow the African research fellows to collaborate directly with European scientists and implement their research ideas.
Application Requirements
The needed documents to apply are:
- Research Proposal
- CV with the most recent publication list. Such document containing both the CV and publication list shall not be longer than three pages max
- Copy of ID
- Scan of PhD or Master Diploma
- 2 Reference letters
Application Registration Deadline: 31st March 2023
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