The UN-Nippon Fellowship Program is subsidized by The Nippon Foundation of Japan and executed by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DAOLOS), with the help of the Training and Fellowships Section of the United Nations Division for Economic and Social Affairs.
The primary target of the cooperation is to give chances to cutting edge instruction and preparing in the field of sea issues and the law of the ocean, and related controls including sea life science, to Government authorities and other mid-level experts from creating seaside States, with the goal that they may get the important learning to help their nations to detail far reaching sea strategy and to actualize the legitimate administration set out in UNCLOS and related instruments
Deadline: 15 Sept
Scholarship in: USA/Europe/Australia
Host Institution(s):
Chosen Fellows are to do particular research and concentrates for a 6 month time span at one of more than 35 have colleges or research establishments in around 16 nations including Australia, France, Barbados, Brazil, USA, Spain, Canada, Ireland, Turkey, Belgium, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, UK, Chile, The Netherlands, and Greece. See the rundown of host foundations here.
After which, chose Fellows are to complete their preparation for a time of 3 months at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Secretariat (New York, U.S.A.) or at one of the accompanying organizations:
- Fisheries Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome, Italy)
- International Labor Organization (Geneva, Switzerland)
- International Maritime Organization (London, U.K.)
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Hamburg, Germany)
- United Nations Environment Program (UNEP office to be affirmed by Fellow’s exploration point)
Field of studies:
Sea undertakings and the law of the ocean, and related controls including sea life science.
Number of Awards:
Every year, the UN-Nippon Selection Committee will survey applications and honor Fellowships to 10 effective competitors.
Target gathering:
Government authorities and other mid-level experts from creating beach front nations. Past colleagues were from South America (Columbia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and so forth.) ; Africa (Ghana, Cameroon, Mozambique, Tanzania, and so forth.); South Asia (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and so forth.); and Southeast Asia and Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and so forth.).
Benefits of this Scholarship:
Fruitful applicants will be given the chance to build up an exploration/ponder subject of direct pertinence to their country and additionally area concerning sea undertakings and the law of the ocean, incorporating into the sea life sciences.
The 9-month Fellowship Program is made out of two continuous stages which give Fellows progressed and altered research and preparing openings in their picked fields:
Stage One: 6-month Advanced Academic Research and Study – embraced at one of the esteemed taking an interest Host Institutions and under the direction of topic expert(s) who have perceived inside and out aptitude in the Fellows’ picked field of study.
Stage Two: 3-month Research and Training – ordinarily embraced at DOALOS at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Qualification:
- You should be between ages 25 and 40;
- You should have effectively finished a first college degree, and exhibit an ability to embrace autonomous propelled scholarly research and study;
- You should be a mid-level chairman from a national government organ of a creating waterfront State, or another legislature related organization in such a State, which bargains specifically with sea undertakings issues, and your expert position must enable you to straightforwardly help your country in the plan as well as usage of approach around there. This incorporates sea life sciences and the science-strategy linkage. Your “Selection and Recommendation Form” ought to be finished by a Government official who can authenticate the idea of your work regarding the Government’s sea undertakings and law of the ocean related exercises, and demonstrate how an Award would specifically add to these exercises; and
- Your proposed research and study program must contribute specifically to your country’s plan or potentially execution of sea undertakings and law of the ocean approaches and programs.
How to Apply:
The application procedures have been described in the official website very clearly. Click on the link below to apply:
