Empowerment and Opportunities

At Google, we are committed to developing new technologies to help our users find and use information. While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide pursuing innovative research in core areas relevant to our products and services. As part of that vision, the Google Faculty Research Awards Program aims to recognize and support world-class, permanent faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest. Our goal is to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology. Google Faculty Research Awards are structured as seed funding to support one graduate student for one year and are awarded as an unrestricted gift. The award is highly competitive - only 15% of applicants receive funding - and each proposal goes through a rigorous Google-wide review process. Click Here  FOR MORE INFORMATION...

We are looking for a Multimedia Broadcast Journalist with excellent spoken English to work in a new Africa Health Unit and launch new health and lifestyle video and TV products for African audiences.  The successful candidate will need to have excellent an understanding of what audiences are looking for in digital and social media content. All BBC Africa Health Journalists work across platforms on Television, and digital video production. They will also work across multimedia websites with a focus on digital video, text, interactivity and radio services.  The Multimedia Journalist will work as part of the editorial/production team in Lagos for BBC Africa Health and Lifestyle and will meet the BBC’s high editorial standards.  Role Responsibility To report, present, research, write, translate, edit and adapt stories or programme material for BBC Africa Health and Lifestyle TV, radio and online audiences.      To offer original and creative ideas f...

Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship 2019 for Emerging Photographers, Artists, Journalists and Scholars.  (Fully Funded Trip to New York) CRITERIA: • Early-career documentary photographers, artists, and photojournalists • Activists who use photography in their change-making practice • Journalists who would like to deepen their engagement with photography  • Scholars who incorporate images and image-making in their research and scholarship • Preference is given to those who have not had previous opportunity to do a formal course of study in photography at the university level. • Applicants must be proficient in spoken and written English. All instruction will be in English and there will be no simultaneous translation for instruction or discussion during the course sessions.  • We are especially seeking applications from people of color, women, individuals who are part of social, political, or cultural groups who are c...

Fully Funded Trip To Mozambique British Council #SouthernAfricaArts invites young digital creatives to take part in the second edition of ColabNowNow hosted with Maputo Fast Forward in Mozambique. ColabNowNow will select 4 digital storytellers and 4 digital artists from East, West and Southern Africa and the UK. Working with the guidance of two digital facilitators, the creatives will create work for a physical and digital exhibition at the festival.  Apply Here

Cashless Lagos Hackathon The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund 'LSETF' in partnership with VISA West Africa and Passion Incubator is organizing a 3-day hackathon aimed at creating technology based financial solutions to help MSMEs carry out daily cashless transactions. Date:  August 31st - Septmber 2nd, 2018 Prizes: 1st Prize:  ₦2million 2nd Prize: ₦1million 3rd Prize:  ₦500,000 Are you a developer or you’ve got an idea on how best we can digitize payments for MSMEs? APPLY HERE !

UNIL Master's grants For Study in Switzerland. (Funded) Masters scholarships are scholarships for excellence awarded exclusively to students who have graduated from a foreign university and whose academic results are of a very high level. UNIL grants around ten scholarships a year. The scholarship is granted for the minimum statutory period of the programme chosen by the student. It amounts to CHF 1,600 per month from 15 September to 15 July (or 10 months a year) for the complete duration of the masters (one and a half years or two years depending on the chosen masters), with the exception of cases of definitive failure after the first year.  The  deadline for applications is 1 November  to begin a masters degree during the following academic year, in the autumn semester or the spring semester if the programme allows. The postmark will attest to the date sent. APPLY HERE

OCP Policy Center  is organizing the seventh edition of The Atlantic Dialogues, a high-level conference that has become a tradition since its launch in 2012 by its founding partners the German Marshall Fund of the United States and OCP Policy Center in Morocco. This annual conference convenes influential public- and private-sector leaders from around the Atlantic Basin for open, informal discussion on cross-regional issues and also encourages intergenerational dialogue through its Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program (ADEL). The ADEL program, which started in 2012 with 35 emerging leaders, has grown to encompass about 247 brilliant young and dynamic leaders in 2017 as part of its community, all from different sectors, fields, regions and backgrounds. OCP Policy Center, with the, is looking to build a stronger sense of community between OCPPC and the ADELs, The applicants must be between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-five (inclusive) on August 17 th  2018, th...