Call for Application: Sub-Saharan Africa Planning and Design Scholarship

Application Deadline: February 1, 2024

The Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, is inviting applications for scholarships to students from Sub-Saharan Africa aged between 22 and 28 to participate in the Summer School. The scholarships are for the Summer School Planning and Design for the Just City at the Schools of Architecture and the Built Environment and Technology, Policy & Management of the TU Delft, in the Netherlands. It covers travel costs, accommodation and daily costs during the Summer School (meals and transportation). Selected students are expected to act as ambassadors for TU Delft, the Department of Urbanism and the Delft Global Initiative and will help promote our learning philosophy and values.

This scholarship is intended for passport holders of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa between 22 and 28 years of age, studying in the following areas:

Architecture
Urban design
Spatial planning (town, urban and regional planning)
Environmental engineering
Water engineering
Urban law and management
Political sciences
Public administration
Areas that have a close relationship with planning and design of sustainable cities and communities.

Application Details

CV
Letter of recommendation from teacher
Letter of motivation
Short introduction video from applicants providing relevant information and stating reasons for desire to participate in the summer school.
Signed transcript/grade summary from applicant’s institution

Selection Process

Application starts (December 2023)
Evaluation of application (After 1st February, 2024)
Zoom interview from selected candidates from previous phase Announcement of recipients of scholarships.
Students will be provided with an invitation letter and assistance to obtain a Dutch visa. Visas are granted by the competent Dutch authorities and TU Delft has no say in the process. Students will be expected to travel to the Netherlands in July (exact dates will be announced later).

The complete application should be sent in a digital (zipped) folder titled with NAME+AFRICA (files can be compressed if they are too big), a short note explaining what the email is about, and sent to su*************@tu*****.nl via the website https://wetransfer.com.