The following scholarships, funding opportunities, programmes, and training are available:
Falling Walls Lab is coming to Pretoria, South Africa
Falling Walls Lab is a global pitch competition that brings together an interdisciplinary pool of students and early-career professionals, providing a stage for their breakthrough ideas in 3-minute pitches. Throughout the season, over 1,000 selected researchers, innovators and scientists will take part in local Falling Walls Labs, hosted by leading academic institutions worldwide.
Together they send a total of 100 winners to the Global Finale in Berlin in November, during which they gain valuable insights into Germany’s research landscape and compete for the Breakthrough Winner in the Emerging Talents category at the Falling Walls Science Summit. In 2025, more than 2,750 applicants participated in 82 Falling Walls Labs across 60 countries, demonstrating the programme's reach, impact, and spirit of innovation.
Event Details:
Date:12 August 2026
Venue: Sanlam Auditorium, University of Pretoria, Hatfeild Campus
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Item added: 09/06/2026
Deadline: 08 July 2026
Call for Applications: International banking and finance - University of Insurance and Finance (UIF)
This Master’s programme equips students with advanced knowledge of banking systems, corporate finance, and financial services markets at national, regional, and global levels. The curriculum provides specialised training in bank asset management, cash flow management, capital and risk management strategies, and the development of innovative financial products and enterprises. Students also explore the role of bank lending in promoting sustainable economic development and gain an understanding of the relationship between financial market development, financial stability, and economic growth.
Graduates develop the skills required to manage budgets, analyse financial markets, and effectively communicate complex financial information in business and public sector environments. The programme prepares students for careers as managers, analysts, consultants, and finance and banking experts within national and international institutions, while also providing the competencies needed to establish and manage their own businesses.
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Item added: 05/06/2026
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
Call for Applications: Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Fellowship at Yale University is offered annually, and is designed to provide access to Yale resources in LGBT Studies for scholars who live outside the greater New Haven area.
Scholars from across the country and around the world are invited to apply for the Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship. This fellowship supports scholars from any field pursuing research in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer studies at Yale University, utilizing the vast faculty resources, manuscript archives, and library collections available at Yale. Graduate students conducting dissertation research, independent scholars, and all faculty are invited to apply. Scholars residing within 100 miles of New Haven are ineligible.
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Item added: 27/05/2026
Application deadline: 1 July 2026
Gill Jacot Guillarmod Scholarship
In loving memory of Gill Jacot Guillarmod, Senior Project Manager and Liaison Officer of the Centre for Human Rights from 1 May 2001 to 15 January 2010, in deep appreciation for her role to the academic and other programmes of the Centre, and in recognition of her humanity and humour, which left a profound impression on everyone whose lives touched hers, the Centre for Human Rights in 2010 established the Gill Jacot Guillarmod Scholarship.
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Item added: 01/02/2011
Application deadline: 30 October each year
