ARUA Early-Career Research Fellowship 2025

The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching an Early-Career Research Fellowship programme. The initiative will fund up to 42 early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s 13 centres of excellence.

Each fellowship will last six months during July 2025 and June 2026. ARUA will continue to accept applications for the 42 positions until they are all filled, with a deadline of December 2025. 

Successful applications whose research interests fall within the cope of ACEIR's research areas would get the opportunity to work with our nodes in either Accra, Cape Town, or Nairobi.

Apply before 15 May 2025 to be considered for the first batch of fellowships that starts on 1 July 2025.