Co-Sponsored scholarship UNESCO / Poland to developing countries, 2016
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Field of Research (Please refer to the list of invited Member States entitled to submit applications hereunder)
Projec No. |
FIELD OF RESEARCH/PROJECT TITLE (Number of Fellowships) |
INVITED MEMBER STATES PER REGION |
LIMIT OF AGE |
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENT |
01 |
Drilling Engineering (2) Drilling and hydraulic fracturing |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in engineering preferably in petroleum, earth engineering, physics, mathematics or computer sciences. |
02 |
Geophysics or Physics (1) Study of radionuclides and rare elements deposits |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific | no more than35 years of age | B.Sc degree Principle knowledge about rare and radioactive deposits and preferable for candidates with solid and water samples collected from deposits in his country. |
03 |
Decision Engineering. (2)
Problem base engineering |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree Be able to use MS Office and drawing programs; a general knowledge related to engineering problems. |
04 |
Automation in Mining Devices(4) Mining devices automation |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in automation, mining devices |
05 |
Mining devices (4)
Selected problems in operation of mining devices |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in engineering, mining devices. |
06 07 |
Transport Engineering (4) Availability problems in transportation systems and devices (2) Transport System Telematics (2) |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree (06) Be able to write computer programs, for example, be familiar with CAD/CAM/CAE; A general knowledge related to transportation programmes, including safety and reliability problems. (07) Candidates should have degree in mechanical/ transport engineering/ automation; be familiar transport telematics; be able to analyse reliability, maintain ability and availability of machine maintenance as well as modelling. |
08 |
Manufacturing Transport Engineering (2)
Transportation technology system and devices. |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree Be able to write computer programs (be familiar with CAD/CAM/CAE), have a general knowledge related to transportation programmes, including safety and reliability problems. |
09 |
Sensor Engineering (1)
Inter-digital Piezoelectric transducers in Structural Health monitoring. |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than30 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree Experienced in the field of Piezoelectric transducers and general knowledge in ultrasound, sensor engineering, signal processing. |
10 |
Economic Sociology and Economics (1)
Interrelations between new technologies and social, economic life in globalizing world. |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than35 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in humanities or Social sciences or economy General knowledge in world economics |
11 |
Foundry Engineering (1)
Ecological assessment of the polymer binder in the form: copolymer of maleinic acid/modified polysaccharide. |
Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than25 years of age | B.Sc degree General knowledge in chemistry of polymers engineering, environmental harmful substances. |
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Foundry Engineering (3)
Influence of cerium on the morphology of non-metallic inclusion in microralloyed steel (1) Evolution of chemical composition of non-metallic precipitates generated in the process of the de-oxidization and modification of lanthanum steel (1).
Influence of the neodymium on the morphology of non-metallic inclusion in steel (1).
|
Asia and the Pacific and Europe | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree General knowledge in steel metallurgy materials engineering, physics and mathematics. |
15
29 30 |
Geology (6)
Geological characteristic of tin deposit in Africa. (4)
Geological characteristic of chromite deposit in Balkan. (1)
Geological characteristic of metallic deposit in Balkan. (1)
|
Africa, Asia and the Pacific
Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Europe Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Europe |
no more than30 years of age
same as above no more than35 years of age |
B.Sc or M.Sc degree Basic knowledge on mineral deposits and general knowledge in geology and optical mineralogy. Basic knowledge on mineral deposits. General knowledge in geology is required; and optical mineralogy is welcome. Basic knowledge on mineral deposits; general knowledge in geology is required; knowledge in optical mineralogy is welcome. |
16 |
Computer Vision (2)
Research in computer vision and cognitive robotics. |
Asia and the Pacific | no more than25 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree Very good background in mathematics, interest in computer science, particularly in computer vision and robotics. General knowledge of programming C/C++, Matlab or Python; basic knowledge of image processing and analysis technics. Strong background in mathematics particularly in linear algebra. |
18
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Materials Science (6)
Advanced ceramic materials-synthesis, properties and possible application (2). Granular metals-fabrication characterization and modelling. (2) Electrochemically Engineered Materials– synthesis, properties and possible application. (2) |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than30 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in materials science or chemistry. General knowledge in materials science, (especially in ceramic technology of porous materials). Be able to work in a group, good communication skills, be highly motivated, innovative with some experimental and process development skills and an open-minded approach to new ideas and concepts. B.Sc or M.Sc degree in Chemistry, Physics or material engineering. General knowledge in Chemistry and Physics. Be able to work in group and have good communication skills B.Sc or M.Sc degree in Chemistry or material engineering. |
20 |
Nanotechnology (1)
MOS2 based thin films for solar energy conversion. |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than30 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in Physics, chemistry or material engineering. General knowledge in thin films, solid states physics and chemistry, methods of thin films elaboration; scientific approach to the problem; be able to work in group and good communications skills. |
21 |
Composite Materials (1)
Local in situ composite reinforcements in ferrous casting for abrasive wear resistance enhancement |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in Materials Science/Materials Engineering/Metallurgy or similar subjects. General knowledge in materials investigation techniques (e.g. x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy) |
22 |
Computer Vision (2)
Embedded implementation of selected vision algorithms using heterogeneous Zynq SoC (System on Chip) devices |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than30 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree Candidates should have background in : computer science (mainly programming in C/C++/Python/Matlab/Open CV and general algorithms); basic skills in computer vision, embedded systems 5ARM processor programming and Linux OS) and FPGA devices (e.g. VHDL or Verilog, Xilinx FPGA devices, Xilinix Zynq devices, Xilinx tools like ISE, Vivado, SDK). Only the Computer Science is mandatory, however others will greatly help finishing the project (no additional time for studying this subjects will be required). |
23 |
Geology and Mining (1)
Analysis of use geothermal waters for energetical purposes |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree Engineering background in one of the following fields: mining and geology, heat transfer, civil engineering. |
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Gas Engineering (8)
Design of compressed air energy storages in salt caverns (2) Reservoir fluid recombination in conventional and unconventional gas-condensate wells (2) Optimization of the gas-condensate reservoir exploitation in the recovery of ethane and LPG (2)
Nodal analysis for unconventional tight gas reservoirs. (2) |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than35 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in petroleum engineering, geoscience, gas engineering or mechanical engineering. |
26 |
Geoturism (2)
Selected geological objects and their geotouristics values. |
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean | no more than40 years of age | B.Sc or M.Sc degree in geology geophysics and environmental protection. |
Total positions: 53
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List of invited Member States entitled to submit applications
Qualifications Required
Facilities offered by Polish Authorities
Facilities offered by UNESCO
(ii) Health insurance for fellowship beneficiaries who are declared medically fit: UNESCO fellowship holders may be covered by a health insurance policy, taken-out by the Organization for the duration of fellowship. The costs of this health insurance is subscribed to and covered by UNESCO on behalf of awarded fellows.
Submission of applications
Visas
UNESCO and the Government of the Republic of Poland provide no allowance to defray passport and visa expenses. Selected beneficiaries will have to secure their own visas themselves.