The 2019 African Youth Energy Innovator Submissions Are Open!
Africa Energy Indaba is proud to present the third African Youth Energy Innovator Showcase in 2019. The contest is open to 18 to 35-year-old individuals from across Africa; and the submitted innovations should address the key areas of energy security, environmental sustainability, energy equity, and job creation.
The winner will receive the Best Innovator Award and will be recognized at the Africa Energy Indaba 2019 in Johannesburg.
Benefits
The winner will receive the Best Innovator Award and will be recognized at the Africa Energy Indaba 2019 in Johannesburg.
The Top-5 finalists will each receive an opportunity to showcase their Innovation in a 2-day Exhibition during the Africa Energy Indaba.
All expenses paid (flights, accommodation, Exhibition Stand, free media coverage of your innovation).
This will provide the following benefits:
Publicity and exposure of the winning innovations to local and international market opportunities
Access to exclusive Business Matchmaking networking programme to meet with potential investors
Opportunity to meet key public and private sector stakeholders
The possibility of attracting funding or sponsorship
Eligibilities
Individuals who are between 18 to 35 years old;
Have citizenship to any country in Africa
Your Innovation Should Address These Key Areas:
Energy Security: Can your innovation help with effective management of energy supply, reliability of energy infrastructure, or meet a specific set of current and future demands?
Environmental Sustainability: Does your innovation provide clean renewable or low carbon supply energy?
Energy Equity: Can your innovation improve accessibility and affordability of energy in Africa?
Job creation: Could your innovation create jobs?
Target customers: Who is the innovation going to benefit? For example Utilites / Rural communities / Corporates etc.?
Customer value: What are the key benefits of your innovation to customers?
Your unique value proposition: How will you differentiate and position yourself?
Eligible Regions: African Countries
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The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
Prize Studentship Application Guide
The SUPA Prize Studentships are prestigious and competitive awards intended to attract outstanding physics students from around the world, irrespective of nationality, to study for a PhD in Scotland.
You will be asked to state your first choice of SUPA university and preferred SUPA Theme. You must make contact with prospective supervisors and research groups before applying as you will be asked to provide an e-mail contact for your prospective supervisor.
http://apply.supa.ac.uk/
The SUPA Themes are:
Astronomy and Space Physics
Condensed Matter and
Materials Physics
Energy
Particle Physics
Photonics
Physics and Life Sciences
Nuclear and Plasma Physics
The SUPA universities are:
Aberdeen
Dundee
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Heriot-Watt
Strathclyde
St Andrews
University of the West of Scotland
Prize studentships will be awarded competitively. The studentships provide support for tuition fees, a stipend and a travel grant for a three-and-a-half-year period. SUPA is the funding body for the prize studentships.
There may be a requirement, associated with these positions, to teach or undertake lab supervision.
This will be negotiated between the student and the host university.
Applications must be made online using the web form at:
http://apply.supa.ac.uk At the end of theprocess, you will be given an application code.
Please make a careful note of this code.
On completion of the on-line form, you will be invited to upload a scanned transcript of your first degree (after high school) in pdf format. Transcripts are optional and not a requirement.
You are responsible for completing the form accurately by 23.59 GMT on Sunday 31st January
2016 and for ensuring that your two named referees upload the references before the deadline
of 23.59 GMT on Sunday 7th February 2016. It is very important that both you and your referees quote your unique application reference code and your name on all correspondence and
submissions. The email address for enquiries about references is admin@supa.ac.uk.
Requirements
Please prepare the following before starting the application form:
1. Your contact details, including a valid email address that you will check daily during the
prize process period.
2. The contact details of two referees who have agreed to provide references for you.
3. The e-mail address of a prospective supervisor with whom you have been in contact and
who has agreed to supervise you.
4. Details of your higher education (after high school) academic record and any English
language qualifications (including scores and grades) if applicable.
5. Details of your academic achievements, prizes, awards and publications.
6. A prepared statement of your interest in a chosen SUPA Theme or area of research (approx.
200 words).
7. A prepared statement of what makes you a suitable candidate for a SUPA prize studentship
(approx. 200 words).
8. A scanned final or interim (if you have not yet graduated) transcript of your first degree (afterhigh school) in pdf format.
http://www.supa.ac.uk/pg_applications/Guides/Application_Guide.pdf
High Energy Laser (HEL) & High Power Microwave (HPM) Technologies
The Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) is the premier organization for the exchange of information on the development and application of directed energy (DE), which includes both high energy lasers (HEL) and high power microwaves (HPM). DEPS fosters research and development of DE technology for national defense and civil applications through professional communication and education. The traditional academic disciplines involved in DE research include, but are not limited to, physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials sciences, optical sciences, optical engineering, and aerospace engineering.
This program offered partial scholarships of $10,000 for the 2009-2010 school year. The number and amount of 2010-2011 scholarship awards will depend on available funding, which is provided by the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office and by DEPS.
Requirements
DEPS is seeking qualified scholarship candidates for the 2010-2011 school year. Students must be full-time graduate students at a U.S. school for the term of the scholarship, and expected graduation for initial applicants must be no earlier than the end of the 2010-2011 school year. No more than one award will be made to students of any individual graduate advisor.
Candidates are expected to be interested in pursuing or currently studying the DE technology areas of HEL or HPM. The technical scope of acceptable research is the same as that of the Journal of Directed Energy and of DEPS meetings. Scholarship students have published in the Journal and made presentations at these technical meetings.
Students applying for this scholarship must be U.S. citizens or have demonstrated interest in becoming citizens. Citizens of other countries may apply, if they provide with the application package a letter of intent to become a U.S. citizen.
The term of the Scholarship is one year. Scholars may apply for support in the next year, but they have no advantage over other applicants. The requirement that a student have a year or more remaining before award of the degree is waived for current Scholars who are reapplying. An award made to a current Scholar graduating before May 2011 will be proportionately reduced.
Application Process
To apply for this scholarship, please send the following items to DEPS Scholarship Program, Directed Energy Professional Society, 7770 Jefferson Street NE, Suite 440, Albuquerque, NM, 87109.
This DEPS scholarship application,
Official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work, sent directly from the school to DEPS (see note below),
Letter of interest in a specific DE technology and statement of proposed research,
Letter of reference from a potential or current graduate research advisor including an assessment of the student's potential and description of facilities to be employed for the research, and
Letter of intent to become U.S. citizen, if applicant is not a citizen.
Note: Previous applicants who are applying again this year need only submit transcripts that have changed since the last application. For example, a second-year graduate student who applied last year need not resubmit transcripts from undergraduate school.
The deadline for applications is 1 April 2010. Applications will be reviewed by the DEPS Board of Scientific and Engineering Advisors (BSEA) for potential scholarship award. The awards will be announced during the summer of 2010.
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Sam Blankenship, DEPS Executive Director, at sam@deps.orghttp://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/scholarships.html
