Before applying for a fellowship from a WMU donor, you are strongly advised to explore all funding possibilities in your home country, such as from your own company or organization, national scholarship and fellowship programmes for study abroad, international scholarship and fellowship programmes, maritime sector organizations, and philanthropic foundations.
Make sure you find out about the requirements for each of these options well in advance of the start of your programme.
Find below a non-exhaustive list of institutes that may provide funding. The institutes' scholarships eligibility requirements are divided in;
- general: applicable for all countries/applicants
- multiple, but a limited number of countries
- single country specific
GENERAL
FOR MULTIPLE, BUT A LIMITED NUMBER OF COUNTRIES:
Africa:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d`lvoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome& Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Asia and the Middle East:
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Korea DR, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Antigua Barbuda , Belize, Barbados, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Grenada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, , Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Panama, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Europe:
Albania , Bosnia Herzegovina
- Aga Khan Foundation: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Syria, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Madagascar, France, Portugal, UK, USA and Canada. http://www.akdn.org/akf_scholarships.asp.
- OAS Regular Program for Academic Scholarships (Graduate): http://www.oas.org/en/scholarships/regular_program.asp Antigua and Barbuda. Argentina. Barbados. Belize. Bolivia. Brazil. Canada. Chile. Colombia. Costa Rica. Cuba. Dominica (Commonwealth of). Dominican Republic. Ecuador. El Salvador. Grenada. Guatemala. Guyana. Haiti. Honduras. Jamaica. Mexico. Nicaragua. Panama. Paraguay. Peru. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Lucia. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Suriname. The Bahamas (Commonwealth of). Trinidad and Tobago. United States of America. Uruguay. Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
- DAC List of ODA Recipients: The e8 Sustainable Energy Development Scholarship Program https://www.globalelectricity.org/
- Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE): http://sv2.jice.org/e/
- Open Society Foundations: http://www.soros.org/
- Eurasia Foundation: http://www.eurasia.org/
- Arab Region: Higher Education Funding Opportunities: http://www.bibalex.org/he_funding/Home/index.aspx
- Islamic Development Bank: M.Sc. Scholarship Programme. Eligible countries: Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo, Uganda, Yemen: https://www.isdb.org/scholarships
- Islamic Development Bank: Ph.D. Merit Scholarship Programme for High Technology (MSP). 56 eligible countries. https://www.isdb.org/scholarships
- Arab region: The Arab Fund Fellowships Program (PhD): http://www.arabfund.org/Default.aspx?pageId=453
SINGLE COUNTRY SPECIFIC:
