AI4D Africa second call for proposals
AI4D Scholarships Enhancing Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Sub-Saharan Africa. The award of the scholarships shall strive to achieve uniform distribution of beneficiaries across anglophone, francophone and lusophone in Sub-Saharan Africa. Please read detail of each category and click the link to the category of scholarship you wish to pursue and follow the subsequent application instructions.
About AI4D Africa
AI4D Africa is a 3-year project, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); it aims to meet the growing demand of demand for research and development in responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the continent. Specifically, the project is supporting selected scholars to undertake and successfully complete PhD research in AI and ML in African universities; and early career academics (ECA) to strengthen their research and development capacities in the two areas. Special consideration is given to research projects on responsible AI innovation for sustainable development, gender equity, equitable regional distribution in low-income countries.
Scholarship Categories
The AI4D scholarships has been designed to target the following three categories of beneficiaries;
Category 1 -Registered PhD students
Invitation will target candidates who are already registered for PhD, have finished course work as well as research proposals. This will be open to all universities offering PhD in AI (or any of its derivatives). Eight in-country scholarships (4 female and 4 male) will be given for a period of two years. Selection will be based purely on the quality of the candidates and proposals. This call will be done twice, 4 admitted in Year 1 (Cohort 1) and 4 admitted in year 2 (Cohort 2).
Category 3 - Early career academics
Under the ECA scholarship, 8 Early Career Academics will be supported. This will mainly target those ECA who have capacity to supervise PhD and MSc students.
Category 4 - Post-doctoral researchers
It is assumed that there may be challenge getting suitable female ECA. Therefore, the programme will also support 4 post-doctoral positions for female candidates and those from disadvantaged countries to build capacities for AI research and training in their universities. The program will support each successful post-doctoral candidate with 4 MSc positions.
