UNESCO-TWAS has partnered with the Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (COMSTECH) for the UNESCO-TWAS – COMSTECH Science in Exile Fellowship Programme for displaced and refugee scholars and scientists. The PhD or Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme aims to provide displaced and refugee scientists who have not yet found a safe and long-term host country to pursue postdoctoral studies in Pakistan, at institutions members of the COMSTECH Consortium of Excellence (CCoE), starting in 2022.

Programme details:

• The Programme aims to provide displaced and refugee scholars and scientists who have not yet found a safe and long-term host country to pursue doctoral studies in Pakistan.
• Fellowships will be full-time and tenable in Pakistan at one of the academic and science, technology and engineering research institutions members of the COMSTECH Consortium of Excellence (CCoE).
•   Fellowships will be tenable for a duration between 6 and 12 months.
•  The language of instruction is English.

The deadline to apply for either is 28 January 2022, 11.59 p.m., Rome time.

N.B. Applicants may apply for only one of the two types of the UNESCO-TWAS – COMSTECH Science in Exile Fellowships Programme.

For full details, please visit:

•     PhD fellowships: https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-comstech-science-exile-phd-fellowship-programme-displaced-and-refugee-scientists
•     Postdoctoral fellowships: https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-comstech-science-exile-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme-displaced-and-refugee

For any queries, kindly contact the TWAS Refugee and displaced scientists office: displacedscientists@twas.org