Description
The Netherlands
Fellowship Programmes (NFP) grants fellowships for PhD studies to a particular
target group of professionals of 51 countries. Applications to NFP have
to be submitted by one of the participating universities in the Netherlands.
Wageningen
University (WU) has more interested candidates than it is allowed to submit. Therefore
it organises a pre-selection procedure for NFP via the Graduate Schools. If you
are interested in applying to this fellowship programme, please read the
instructions carefully.
Visit the web
pages of NFP for all the rules and regulations. It is essential to first
determine your eligibility for this programme. Please take this serious!
Working for an international NGO makes that you are not-eligible. Same is valid
for not being able to produce an employers statement that meets the
requirements.
The WU selection procedure for NFP applications uses a two-step
approach:
1.
Candidates
who consider themselves eligible for NFP express their interest to participate
in the next NFP call. Such an expression
of interest should be addressed directly to the contact person of the graduate
school that covers your subject. Applications to more than one graduate
school are not allowed, and will not be taken into account. In order to
participate in the preselection, the interested candidate needs approval of a WU
chair group/supervisor willing to supervise the candidate. The graduate
schools can assist candidates in finding potential supervisors.
2.
The
graduate schools select the most
suitable candidates (NFP applies several criteria, see their webpages). Only the
selected candidates will be allowed to upload their application to NFP.
Expressions of interest to one of the graduate school should consist
of:
o
A
cover letter
o
A
preliminary research proposal
o
Curriculum
vitae
o
A scan
of BSc and MSc diplomas, and a list of grades for both degrees
o
Certificate
of proficiency in English (if applicable):
o
Copy
of your passport
o
Employers
statement
o
Government
statement (if applicable)
See the instructions (given below) for details.
The
deadline for the next NFP call is 1 November
2016 (this is the deadline for Wageningen University to nominate candidates). The
deadlines for the WU pre-selection are:
o
Submission
of your expression of interest to PE&RC: between 1 July and 4 September 2016;
o
Notification
of the outcome of the pre-selection: 23
September 2016
o
Selected
candidates send updates all required documentation to the graduate school: not
later than 16 October 2016!! The
graduate schools will check all documents once again and then inform you how to
upload the documents.
Questions about the WU preselection for NFP can be addressed to the
contact persons of the graduate schools.
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