The Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Masters & PhD Scholarships Programme 2022 in Urban Studies

Application for the 2022 Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Masters & PhD Scholarships Program is ongoing!

The program is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) from 2016 to 2020. An extension of the program has been granted from 2021 to 2025.  

To apply successfully, kindly read through this piece to learn the full details about this award- the eligibility criteria, requirements, application deadline, and more. The table below will give you an overview of what you should expect.

About Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Scholarships

The Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Programme is built on a partnership agreement between the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), the University of Lagos (UNILAG), and the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB). 

This collaboration seeks to contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2015 and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) of 2016 on the sub-Saharan African continent. The New Urban Agenda (NUA) in particular calls for integrated approaches to urban planning and management as a central element of an “Urban Paradigm Shift”.  It recognizes the need for institutional capacity development as an important “enabling condition”.

The Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab makes its contribution through a ‘Postgraduate SDG School’, in the form of an enhancement of the postgraduate training offered in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits (a leading university on this continent) in close collaboration with the Habitat Unit at TUB and Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at UNILAG.

The programme enables scholars from across the sub-continent to partake in the Master of Urban Studies in the field of Urban Management at Wits as well as PhD studies at both Wits and UNILAG. A new master’s degree in urban management will be introduced at UNILAG in 2022 with bursary support from the program.

Beyond collaboration around the respective urban management masters at TUB, Wits and UNILAG, the program is designed to facilitate international exchange of ideas between research institutions and includes strengthening the network of urban academics on the African continent.

The current (second) phase of the program, 2021-2025 includes the following activities:

• Project Coordination– the collaboration at the Wits-TUB-UNILAG is based on the principle of eye-level-exchange and equal participation of all three academic partner institutions.
• Harnessing ongoing innovations in digital environments to expand collaborative boundaries- the aim to explore, test and implement new digital methods and tools for collaborative teaching and research in the field of postgraduate education across the three institutions.
• Strengthening inter- and transdisciplinary, as well as practice-oriented postgraduate education in the field of Urban Management at African planning schools.
• Embedding PhD training in structured collaborative postgraduate capacity building programmes- PhD training will continue to be a core focus of the Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab.
• Mentoring and capacity building for an academic career.
• Building inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge around resilience, urban justice and solidarity within urban transitions towards SDG.s
• Strengthening networks to bridge research, policy and practice.

Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Scholarships- Masters Scholarships

Under the Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab, the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University streamlined its previous master’s degrees into the fields of specialization under a common Master of Urban Studies (MUS), and in 2019 introduced the Urban Management (UM) field. The curriculum of the MUS (UM) was developed in collaboration with the Habitat Unit at TUB, which offers a Masters in Urban Management.

Each year from 2017, the program has funded master’s students at the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits. 

The call for master’s scholarships for 2022 is currently open. To access the call for Sub-Saharan African nationals. 

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Application Deadline

The deadline for this award submission entry is 31 October 2022.

For More Information: Visit the Official Webpage

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