ICP VLIR UOS Scholarship Programme “Road Safety in the South” 2020

Deadline: February 1, 2020

Applications for the ICP Scholarship Programme “Road Safety in the South” 2020 are now open. The ICP “Master of Transportation Sciences – Road Safety in Low & Middle Income Countries” offers a 2-year multidisciplinary master programme with a unique focus and approach to Road Safety in Developing Countries. The programme is supported by VLIR UOS and has 12 scholarships available each year.

Students are trained to identify transportation and road safety issues in order to create innovative solutions by using an integrative approach based on three pillars: the individual (dealing with the human behaviour in traffic and how to influence it e.g. intentional and unintentional riskful behaviour such as drunk driving or cognitive impairments), the environment (e.g. creating self-explaining roads and infrastructure that minimizes crash impact) and the society (e.g. societal norms and translation into policy and enforcement measures). Road safety in this programme is approached as a cross-border field, incorporating elements of psychology, economy, urban planning, environmental studies, engineering and more.

Scholarship

Monthly allowance: €1,150/month (for cost of meals, transport, personal expenses and accommodation)
1- time payment for indirect travel costs: €150
1- time payment for logistical allowance: €850
Insurance, international travel and tuition fee

Eligibility

Participants should have at least an academic bachelor degree in one of the following disciplines:

Behavioural sciences: psychology, sociology
Political and social sciences
Mathematical and statistical sciences
Economy, transport economy
Transport or traffic planning, urban planning or design, geography, (urban) architecture
Engineering: transport engineer, civil engineer

Be a national and resident of one of the below 31 countries:

Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Niger
Asia: Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Palestinian Territories, Vietnam
Latin America: Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru