Academy for Research & Higher Education (ARES) Scholarship Programme 2023-2024

Are you a citizen of one of the ARES partner nations? Have you completed any college? Do you have professional experience and want to hone your knowledge in a field of development? For the ARES Scholarship Program 2023–2024, apply right now.

With the help of the ARES scholarships, you may enroll in a 2- to 6-month continuing education course or a 1-year advanced bachelor’s or master’s degree program at a university in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium.

Within the framework of the ARES 2022-2027 cooperation programme, three types of training are offered
through the international training scholarships:

• Advanced bachelor’s and master’s degrees are inter-institutional training programmes
  organised in one academic year and at the end of which an academic degree is awarded.
• Continuing education programmes are more practical and of shorter duration (2 to 6
  months). They deliver a certificate.

Scholarship:

Each year, The ARES awards an average of 130 scholarships Master’s and Bachelor’s
scholarship and 70 Countinuing education scholarships to nationals of its partner countries.

Eligibility:

In order to be eligible, the applicant must:

• Be national, reside and work in one of the following countries: Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso,
  Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia,
  Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Philippines,
  Republic of Guinea (Conakry), Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda,
  Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
• Hold a diploma comparable to a graduate level degree (300 credits ECTS) from Belgian
  university studies for advanced masters and continuing education courses (equivalent to
  Bac+5); Hold a diploma comparable to a undergraduate level degree (180 credits ECTS) for
  advanced bachelors (equivalent to Bac+3). The candidate must have held the relevant
  academic degree for a maximum of 20 years at the time of the start of the course. This
  maximum period is increased by one year by childbirth and/or adoption.
• Possess relevant professional experience in a ARES partner country of at least two
  years after graduate studies for advanced bachelors, after postgraduate studies for
  advanced masters and continuing education courses.
• Complete the application in the language in which the training is given and can attest a good
  written and spoken knowledge of it. Moreover, knowing a minimum of French allows for a
  good integration into daily life in Belgium.
• Apply for only one training course.

Application:

Your application should be submitted to ARES via the GIRAF platform:

• You must first ensure that you have an active GIRAF account
  • You can create an account on the GIRAF platform. This account will be
    validated (within a few hours to a few days, don’t create more than one
    account) by ARES and you will receive a confirmation mail to create a
    password.
  • If you created a validated account last year, you can reuse that account and if
    necessary reset your password.
• Once logged into your GIRAF account, you can access the application form via
  the Competitive calls tab of your GIRAF profile. Note that you must only click once on the
  “International training application 2023-2024” button. You will then find your form in the My
  tasks table of the Competitive calls.
• You can complete your form several times, as long as you use the “Save and edit later”
  option. You will find your form each time in the My Tasks table of the Competitive calls tab in
  GIRAF.
• As soon as you click on “Submit my application”, your application is sent to ARES and you can
  no longer modify it. You can still consult it in the My submitted files tab.
• Applications must be submitted via GIRAF by January 27, 2023 at 12pm (Belgian time, UTC+1) at the latest.
• Applications submitted after this date will not be considered

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