Friday, July 17, 2020

[Master Degree] Derek and Maureen 2020 Online Scholarships at University of Edinburgh

The School of GeoSciences is offering two scholarships for the Postgraduate Certificate in Climate Change Management for the 2020-2021 academic session.

Benefit:
Each scholarship will cover the full fees relating to the Postgraduate Certificate in Climate Change Management.

For successful recipients studying towards the MSc Carbon Management programme, the scholarship will cover the Postgraduate Certificate in Climate Change Management component of the masters programme.

Requirement:
The scholarships will be awarded to students who are accepted for admission on to the PgCert Climate Change Management (online) or MSc Carbon Management (online) commencing in 2020-2021.

Applicants must be national and resident in the following countries:

Afghanistan	Cuba	Indonesia	Myanmar	Sudan
Algeria	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Iraq	Namibia	Suriname
Angola	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Jamaica	Nauru	Swaziland
Argentina	Djibouti	Jordan	Nepal	Syria
Azerbaijan	Dominican Republic	Kenya	Nicaragua	Tajikistan
Bahamas	Ecuador	Kiribati	Niger	Tanzania
Bangladesh	Egypt	Laos	Nigeria	Timor-Leste
Belize	El Salvador	Lebanon	Pakistan	Togo
Benin	Equatorial Guinea	Lesotho	Palau	Tonga
Bhutan	Eritrea	Liberia	Papua New Guinea	Tunisia
Bolivia	Ethiopia	Libya	Paraguay	Turkmenistan
Botswana	Fiji	Madagascar	Peru	Tuvalu
Burkina Faso	Gabon	Malawi	Philippines	Uganda
Burundi	Gambia	Maldives	Rwanda	Uzbekistan
Cambodia	Ghana	Mali	Samoa	Vanuatu
Cameroon	Guatemala	Marshall Islands	Sao Tome & Principe	Venezuela
Cape Verde	Guinea	Mauritania	Senegal	VietNam
Central African Rep.	Guinea-Bissau	Micronesia	Sierra Leone	Yemen
Chad	Guyana	Moldova	Solomon Islands	Zambia
Comoros	Haiti	Mongolia	Somalia	Zimbabwe
Congo	Honduras	Morocco	South Africa
Côte d'Ivoire	India	Mozambique	Sri Lanka

Criteria:
The scholarship will be awarded based on financial need and motivation, which will be assessed at application stage. Priority will be given to applicants from those nations most at risk from climate change and who are deemed to have the greatest potential to tackle climate change in their home country.

How to Apply:

Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application

As part of the scholarship application you will be asked to accept, on the basis your application is successful, that on your acceptance of this scholarship we release your name and country of residence, but no other personal data, to be shared with Derek & Maureen, who donated this scholarship.
In order to gain access to the scholarship application system applicants must have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh. Please note that, following the submission of an application for admission, it can take up to five working days for all system checks to be completed and for access to be granted.
The online scholarship application form is located in EUCLID and can be accessed via MyEd our web based information portal at https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk
When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name and password. If you require assistance, please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance