WASCAL’s International Master’s in Energy & Green Hydrogen for young West Africans (Fully Funded) – Scholarship Opportunities

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Application Deadline: April 30th, 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025 WASCAL’s International Master’s in Energy & Green Hydrogen. The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), under the sponsorship of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is pleased to announce application for its International Master’s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) in all fifteen (15) ECOWAS countries namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

The International Master’s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) is innovative for the West African region, and it is designed to prepare the next generation to address the energy challenges of adaptation and resilience to Climate Change in West Africa. The programme’s interdisciplinary approach will allow for a better understanding of present-day energy infrastructures in West Africa, their strengths and weaknesses, energy policies, practices in a changing climate context and the search for sustainable solutions.

Eligibility criteria
This International Master’s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) is
open to students:

• from partner countries in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Togo.);
• with a minimum background of a Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent in scientific discipline or in engineering. Candidates with technical strengths in physics, chemistry, electrical, mechanical engineering or equivalent are required. In addition, having a background in economic and statistic will be an asset;
• having a good English proficiency.

Benefits

Scholarship and research support

• Scholarship: 400 Euros per month
• Accommodation provided up to 100 Euros
• Research Budget
• Travel ticket for language courses in Cape Coast or Lomé
• Travel ticket to the country of specialisation
• Round trip ticket to Germany
• Tuition
• Return ticket to home country

Master Programmes

• Economics/Policies/Infrastructures and Green Hydrogen Technology, Université Cheikh Anta Diop – Senegal 
• Bioenergy/Biofuels and Green Hydrogen Technology, University of Lomé – Togo
• Photovoltaic and system Analysis for Green Hydrogen Technologies, Université Abdou Moumouni – Niger
• Green Hydrogen Production and Technology/Geo-resources (Wind/Water) And Green Hydrogen Technology, Université Felix Houphouet Boigny – Côte D’ivoire

Duration

28 months; 4 months for language training (proficiency) and 24 months for the master programmes.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WASCAL’s International Master’s in Energy & Green Hydrogen