Research body seals agreement to send PhD students to US

South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) has partnered with the Fulbright Foreign Student Program (FFSP) to support NRF-funded PhD students registered with a South African university to travel to the United States to conduct research towards their doctorates at a host US institution or university, writes Schalk Burger for Engineering News.

This partnership is aligned with the NRF’s Global Knowledge Partnerships Programme and will contribute to the foundation’s efforts to increase the number of South African PhD-qualified faculty that fully represent South Africa’s diverse demographics.

This cost-sharing agreement will accelerate the career pathways of exceptional early career researchers and post-doctoral fellows to become leading international researchers with strengthened academic rigour and competitiveness, through increased international exposure, collaboration and mentorship opportunities, the NRF states. Visiting student research grantees of the FFSP 2021-22 cohort will be the first to be formally funded under this partnership, which will amount to about US$1.8 million (ZAR26 million) over the next five years.
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