Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP)
Are you interesting in solving urban issues in your countries? If so, then a scholarship that provides you with full scholarships to study in The Netherlands is available to you. This scholarship is offered to global professionals in the world for studying urban development, and these offers are available for students from developing countries. Sponsored by Nuffic as well as the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the programmes aim is to provide practical contributions to global societies as part of sustainable and inclusive developments.
Three application rounds per year are available, and the application is only available for the following master programmes and short courses:
- Urban Management: Good Governance in Complex Contemporary Cities (3-month short course)
- Developing Social Housing Projects (3-week short course)
- MSc Urban Management and Development
- Master in Urban Governance (Master track offered in collaboration with Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
Scholarships Awards
As the scholarship is sponsored and financed by Nuffic and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs altogether, these scholarships are offered in full-scholarships.
Application Procedure
Step 1. Please be ensure about the scholarship eligibility criteria. To be eligible for the programme, you must meet all of these requirements:
- Be a professional and national of, and working and living in one of the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Colombia, Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Iraq (new), Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zambia.
- Have an employer's statement that complies with a prescribed format (template will be provided via invitation). All information must be provided and all commitments that are included in the format must be endorsed in the statement.
- Not be employed by an organization that has its own means of staff-development. Organisations that are considered to have their own means for staff development are for example:
- Multinational corporations (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft)
- Large national and/ or a large commercial organisations
- Bilateral donor organisations (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid)
- Multilateral donor organisations (e.g. a UN organisation, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB)
- International NGO's (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care)
- Have an official and valid passport
- Knock-out criteria: Your background fits into one or more priority areas as mentioned in the "OKP country focus document". This is a knock-out criteria by the OKP programme as your fellowship application will not enter the assessment stage if you do not meet this criteria
Step 2. Check which IHS academic courses qualify for the current OKP deadline on this web page or in this programme calendar. Note the application deadline.
Step 3. Select your preferred IHS course and apply for it. To apply, visit the page of your chosen course and check the information on the Admission page under this course. Keep in mind that preparing your course application may take some time. We advise you to start on it well in time.
Step 4. Once admitted to the academic course, you will be invited by IHS via email invitation to apply for the OKP fellowship. Keep a close eye on your email. More details will be provided in your admission email.
Step 5. The fellowship outcome will be announced by email (check the programme calendar for the expected outcome date). IHS will send you your application outcome on behalf of Nuffic OKP programme. If you are awarded the fellowship, IHS will take care of the further pre-arrival arrangements for you.
Please kindly be ensure that the IHS academic deadline is on 28 February 2021, while the OKP application deadline is on 21 March 2021. For further information related to the scholarship can be followed by this Scholarship Link.